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Chris Barnes, SCL professional education instructor and lead instructor for the SCL APICS CLTD and CSCP Boot Camp courses, explains what to expect and why you should attend.

Are you having difficulties aligning your supply chain metrics with your company's financial goals? This difficulty grows exponentially with ever more complex global operations and the use of external business partners. During this free one-hour webinar, learn how to tailor your metrics and measurement processes to focus on the most important aspects of operations that impact overall corporate goals.
 

An introduction to using proven principles of lean management to cut waste and improve warehouse efficiencies. Based on the Lean Warehousing professional education course offered through the Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, the presenters discussed:

• The key elements of lean thinking that should be used in the warehouse
• How to utilize lean tools to reduce waste in the warehouse
• How to operate a warehouse based on visual management and real time problem solving
• How to create collaboration between warehousing and other functional areas

The webinar introduced attendees to using proven principles of lean management to cut waste and improve warehouse efficiencies. Based on the Lean Warehousing professional education course offered through the Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, Brad Bossence discussed: The key elements of lean thinking that should be used in the warehouse How to utilize lean tools to reduce waste in the warehouse How to operate a warehouse based on visual management and real time problem solving vHow to create collaboration between warehousing and other functional area

Managing your warehouse by "ABC" analysis gets you the big obvious efficiencies, but do not overlook yet another level of efficiencies that is as large in aggregate. "ABC" analysis treats all SKUs as if they were one of three types, and otherwise identical within types. This made sense before computers, but makes little sense now when computers enable us to manage individual SKUs. Saving a centimeter here and five seconds there, when summed over many transactions and many pallets/cases/pieces, can add up to significant efficiencies!