Training course Warehousing DNA

19/11/2024 09:00 - 10/12/2024 17:00 Crowne Plaza, Antwerp

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Warehousing is an important element in today’s flexible, agile and cost-efficient supply chains. Big part of customer service levels is achieved by performing warehousing activities, and warehousing typically represents around 40% of distribution budgets. But the improvement potential is still very high in warehousing and a lot of new technologies and supporting systems are popping up. All supply chain, logistics and warehousing responsibles should be aware of what is available today and what the future might/can/will bring. This will allow to make the correct future-proof choices.

During this 4 days course PICS Belgium and Value Chain will bring you an overview on how to understand your current warehouse DNA, but also to work on DNA (Design, New Technologies and Automation) and improve the warehouse functioning.

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When ?

2024 November 19 and 26, December 3 and 10
Crowne Plaza, Gerard le Grellelaan in Antwerp

What ?

4 days training from 9 until 17h

Goals

Get insight in your current warehouse DNA
Improve the potential of your warehouse
Discover new technologies and supporting systems to improve your warehouse functioning
Warehouse DNA Certificate

Pricing

Price for this 4 days training, including lunch, welcome coffee and 2 coffee breaks

PICS–members/ Value Chain subscribers: 1 415€ + 21% VAT
Non members: 1 695€ + 21% VAT

Program

Day 1

Introduction to the course

Part 1: Evaluating the warehouse performance

KPI’s and reporting
Warehouse costing, Activity Base Costing in the warehouse

Part 2: Improving the warehouse performance

Lean Warehousing and continuous improvement
Warehouse physics highlights

Part 3: Strategic decicions around warehousing

Strategic fit in the overall supply chain and decisions around 3PL versus insourced, green- versus brownfield, manual versus (partially) automated,…)
Working on the business case (Capex versus Opex, ROI, NPV, IRR,…)
Business continuity planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

Day 2

Part 4: Warehouse design basics

Principles and rules
Data and process modeling
Working on warehouse lay-out
Case study work: presentation and participant application and presentation

Part 5: “Warehouse Automation Hardware Systems” – state-of-the-art and Industry 4.0 applications

Technology and Automation Trends
Case study #1: Goods-to-person (GTP) systems – “The 1.000.000 different SKU e-commerce DC”
Case study #2: Lights-off warehousing via I4.0: IOT and robotics – “The first 3PL lights-off warehouse”

Day 3

Part 6: Warehousing software

WMS
WCS, WES and the interaction with MES
Interaction with IOT (data collection, data check, positioning,…)

Part 7: Warehouse implementation considerations

Warehouse implementation road map and go-live strategies, including warehouse setup checklist
RFP composition and proposal evaluation
SLA definition

Day 4

Part 8: How to decide on which automation and IT support?

WMS/WCS/WES in practice
Linked to automation and hybrid systems
When to deploy which type of automation

Part 9: “Warehouse Automation Hardware Systems” – the full picture for today and tomorrow

“Warehouse Automation Hardware Systems” – the full picture for today and tomorrow
Technology & Automation Systems – broad ecosystem overview
Key Automation Design principles
Digital/Data: Digital Twins and Machine learning paving the way to Logistics 2050

Instructors

Stefan Rusu
Jason Ashton
Luc Forceville
Jan De Kimpe
Rolf Ceulemans
Simon Popelier