Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute

Engineering the Warehouse

Special Note

The February 17-20 offering of the course is comprised of (4) days of onsite classroom instruction taking place on the Georgia Tech Savannah campus. Lew Roberts will be the instructor for this offering.

The August 12-15 offering of the course is comprised of (4) days of virtual instruction taking place online via Zoom. Dima Nazzal will be the instructor for this offering.

Please note that this 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

The requirement for high levels of customer service, increasing numbers of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs), and high labor costs have dramatically increased the complexity of warehouse operations. It is no longer sufficient to manage a warehouse based on a simple, arbitrary “ABC” classification of SKUs, which treats all those in a category as if they were identical. Instead, each decision, such as where to store or where to pick product, must be based on careful engineering and economic analysis.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for supply chain and logistics consultants, supply chain engineers and analysts, facility engineers, and warehouse supervisors and team leaders.

How You Will Benefit

Exchange space for time (or vice versa) to better meet business objectives.
Understand when to use dedicated storage and when to use shared storage.
Identify the most convenient locations in a warehouse based on an economic model.
Identify patterns in customer orders and exploit these to speed fulfillment.
Evaluate warehouse performance.
Optimally size and stock a forward pick area.
Understand the best practices in order-picking.

What Is Covered

Warehouse performance
Modern warehouse trade-offs
Size and stocking optimization
Order-picking best practices
Automation

Course Materials

Provided

Online access to course material in electronic format
Access to an e-copy of the book “Warehouse & Distribution Science” as well as access to an accompanying suite of software to aid in warehouse analytics and optimization.

Required

Participants must bring a laptop with high speed internet 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

Lew Roberts, Dima Nazzal

Course Times

February 2025 Offering - Onsite/In-Person course

On the first day, please arrive at least 30 minutes before the class start time.

February 17, 2025 - 11am to 5pm ET
February 18, 2025 - 11am to 5pm ET
February 19, 2025 - 11am to 5pm ET
February 20, 2025 - 11am to 5pm ET

August 2025 Offering - Online/Virtual course

On the first day, please log in at least 15 minutes before the class start time.

August 12, 2025 - 11am to 5pm ET
August 13, 2025 - 11am to 5pm ET
August 14, 2025 - 11am to 5pm ET
August 15, 2025 - 11am to 5pm ET

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.

Brochures/Flyers

Course Flyer

Americold’s Supply Chain Engineering team has sourced professional education courses from Georgia Tech on multiple occasions, in pursuit of the Distribution Operations Analysis and Design certificate. Our team has gained valuable insights from the instructors and course material, including Warehouse Layout Design and Engineering the Warehouse.

The Tech team provided a seamless experience, from location planning to content customization. Our engineers were excited to learn about facility layout, pick path optimization, and automation applications, with numerous industry examples of warehouse challenges and solutions. The courses are structured to foster individual learning, as well as team development through interactive exercises and collaborative discussion.

I appreciate the educational opportunities we have been able to offer our engineering team through our partnership with Georgia Tech. Our engineers have already begun to apply these concepts to business analytics and customer solutions in our large temperature-controlled warehouse network.

Jason DeLoach

VP of Engineered Solutions, Americold

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

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