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Lean Warehousing

Special Note

Please note that the April 22-24, 2025 offering of this course will be taught onsite/in-person on the GT Savannah campus.

Please note that the October 20-24, 2025 offering of this course will be taught online/virtual.

The course qualifies for our Georgia AI Manufacturing (GA-AIM) program discount for Georgia residents. Please see below Course Fees section for details.

If you are interested in hosting an onsite session of this course at your organization, please email us at info@scl.gatech.edu.

Visit the course listing within the Georgia Tech Professional Education website.

 

Course Description

This course will demonstrate how warehouse operations are a key enabler to a successful supply chain implementation and the starting point for a transformation. It is critical to manage safety, quality and efficiency. Learn to leverage the lean supply chain modifications to improve customer responsiveness and reduce operating costs and in doing so contributing to a supply chain that creates a competitive advantage for a company. To accomplish this goal, we must bring lean principles into the warehouse and distribution center.

Who Should Attend

Supply chain professionals, logistics professionals, material managers, production control managers, transportation managers, warehousing managers and purchasing managers

How You Will Benefit

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Isolate the key elements of lean thinking to be used in the warehouse
  • Value stream map warehouse operations
  • Utilize lean tools to reduce waste in the warehouse
  • Create a warehouse operation based on visual management and real time problem solving
  • Reduce inventories in warehouse operations
  • Create collaboration between warehousing and other functional areas

Benefits:

  • Reduce inventories in the warehouse
  • Reduce warehousing costs by as much as 25%
  • Implement lean in the warehouse
  • Create logistics collaboration between warehousing and other functional areas

What Is Covered

  • Lean warehousing overview
  • Supply chain implementation framework
  • Lean storage planning and location sizing method
  • JIT implementation
  • Standard work batches
  • Operational diagrams
  • Operational workload plans
  • Progress control boards
  • Value stream map warehouse operations
  • How to create a warehouse operation based on visual management and real time problem solving

Course Materials

Provided

  • Online access to course material in electronic format

Required

  • Participants must provide a laptop with wireless connectivity

Course Prerequisite and Related Certificate Information

No prerequisites. This course is part of the Distribution Operations Analysis & Design (DOAD) Certificate.

Course CEUs

This course provides for 2.10 continuing education units (CEUs).

Course Instructors

Charles Emery

Course Times

Please note that the April 22-24, 2025 offering of this course will be taught onsite/in-person on the GT Savannah campus.

  • April 22, 2025 - 9:00am to 5:00pm ET
  • April 23, 2025 - 9:00am to 5:00pm ET
  • April 24, 2025 - 9:00am to 5:00pm ET

Please note that the October 20-24, 2025 offering of this course will be taught online/virtual.

  • October 20, 2025 - 9:00am to 5:00pm ET (Virtual via webinar)
  • October 21, 2025 - Homework
  • October 22, 2025 - Homework
  • October 23, 2025 - Homework
  • October 24, 2025 - 9:00am to 5:00pm ET (Virtual via webinar)

Course Fees

Standard: $1,900.00, Certificate: $1,577.00 (cost of each course when signing up for and paying for a multi-course certificate program).

Register and pay for all required courses in a Supply Chain & Logistics certificate and receive a discount of 17% off per course. Enter coupon code SCL-Cert at checkout.

All residents of the State of Georgia are eligible for a 50% discount while funds last thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. Use of this discount is subject to verification of GA residency. Enter coupon code SCL-GAAIM at checkout.

If you have 3 or more participants from your organization, please contact us for volume discounts. Review coupon instructions for more information.

Discounts cannot be combined. For questions, call 404-894-2343 or send us an email prior to registration.

Cancellations

If SCL/GTPE cancels a course, registrants will be notified via email or phone and will receive a full refund. SCL/GTPE is not responsible for nonrefundable plane tickets, hotel and rental car deposits, nor any other expenses incurred.

Every effort is made to present the course as advertised herein; however, circumstances may make it necessary to alter the schedule and/or presenters.

UPCOMING OFFERINGS*

April 22, 2025 to April 24, 2025
Georgia Tech Savannah Campus
October 20, 2025 to October 24, 2025
Virtual (Instructor-led)

REGISTER ONLINE
via Georgia Tech's Professional Education website

*To ensure your seat in the course, please register no later than three (3) weeks prior to the course start date.

Brochures/Flyers

Download the Lean Warehousing course flyer
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Webinar Archive available
View "Lean Warehousing Information Session" via YouTube

In one particular instance, our team identified an opportunity to improve the picking process. We had 35-40 pickers performing the same process in almost as many ways -- some ways effective and some not. We asked, "Why are we walking all over the warehousing picking every unit for one box, when we have a conveyor system that can bring the box to the pickers and eliminate the wasteful motion?" Through leader standard work, kaizen events, picking patterns, and other applications learned from SCL courses, our team was able to improve flat picking productivity from 50 units per hour to 130 per hour.

Reemer Youmans
Director of Distribution Center Operations, HUGO BOSS
 
 
 
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Georgia Tech Supply Chain and
Logistics Institute
H. Milton Stewart School of
Industrial & Systems Engineering
765 Ferst Drive, NW, Suite 228
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: 404.894.2343