Warehouse/Distribution Center Layout Training Course in Egypt

Course Overview

Do you work with problems involving the use of material handling equipment in plants, warehouses and other commercial enterprises? Focus on material handling and distribution problems from the source of raw material through manufacturing and distribution systems to the final consumer. All techniques presented are field-proven and derived from successful implementation. Case exercises are adapted from real situations and projects.

Who Should Attend?

Industrial engineers and systems analysts, warehouse supervisors and team leaders, warehouse/distribution center managers, logistics and supply chain planners, planning teams for new or expanded facilities and leaders of supply chain and lean initiatives.

 

Course Objectives:

• Improve throughput with systematic layout planning.

• Reduce handling costs in storage and order picking.

• Group materials for efficient handling and storage.

• Plan for expansions and new facilities.

• Improve the performance of warehouse and distribution facilities.

• Increase layout planning productivity and effectiveness.

• Offer practical approaches to storage, order picking, packing, material movement and physical control.

• Streamline material flow in warehouses/distribution centers.

 

Contents:

• Typical approaches to layout planning

• Three fundamentals of layout planning

• Systematic Layout Planning (SLP)

• Profiling and inventory analysis

• Handling and storing equipment

• Classical layouts and flow patterns

• Flow of materials analysis

• Estimating space requirements

• Material handling methods

• Evaluation of alternative plans with costs and intangibles

• Detailed layouts

• Organizing your layout project