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Successful Management Skills for Warehouse Supervisors

Your real key to success lies in how well you manage the warehouse employees under your supervision. Yet, if your days go according to the norm for most warehouse supervisors, you probably spend most of your time dealing with problems on the warehouse floor and only a small portion of your time actually supervising your employees. As a warehouse supervisor, you need specific information about how best to control your three basic resources, labor, equipment, and space. You need to know how to manage your information processes regarding materials handling, inventory, and storage in addition to knowing how to recognize and solve your unique warehouse problems.

The Training Course Will Highlight ?

Your effectiveness as a warehouse supervisor has a significant impact on the success of your organization. Today’s competitive and difficult economic environment means that a commitment to excellence must be present not only in your own work but also in the performance of the employees in your charge. That is a monumental task when you consider some of the problems you face as a warehouse supervisor:

Are your employee turnover rates higher than in any other departments?
Do you find disparate personal goals resulting from cultural diversity in the warehouse?
Are you suffering from wildly fluctuating workloads?

Training Objective

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

Appreciate the need for increased integration of the warehouse within the total logistics system
Discuss the change in logistics philosophies from a push environment to a pull Environment
Explore the availability of reliable, responsive, efficient, and effective third party warehouse providers and know when to best utilize them
Discuss the demands for integrated up-line and down-line communications and the challenges of Electronic Data Interchange, automatic identification and compatible information systems
Define the role of partnerships and the virtual integration of partner inventories
Understand how to plan, manage, and improve the warehouse operations by applying a professional approach
Identify must-have information that you need at all times concerning materials handling, inventory and storage
Effectively motivate your employees to be more productive
Use proven techniques for saving time in warehouse operations and the in's and out's of implementing them
Make informed decisions regarding your three basic resources labor, equipment and space
Use tested methods for measuring productivity and performance in warehouse operations
Handle complaints in a positive manner
Apply leadership techniques successfully in a warehouse setting
Implement sure-to-succeed methods for minimizing costs while maximizing space
Evaluate your own effectiveness
Identify the primary areas of your responsibilities that you must keep in mind
Use the 10 commandments of warehouse efficiency
Hone your negotiating skills so that you can emerge with win-win situations instead of win-lose battles
Operationalize easy-to-implement changes to improve lines of communication with your boss, peers, and employees

Target Audience

Logistics Consultants, Logistics and Financial Managers, Accounting and Operations Managers, Third-Party Logistics Providers, Supply Chain and Logistics Managers and Professionals, Operations Managers, Logistics Professionals, Logistic Providers, Logistic Administrators, Logistics Planning and Inventory Managers, Supply, Buying, Purchase, Logistics, Materials and Supply Chain Professionals, General Services Personnel, Purchasing and Procurement Managers, Retailers, Warehouse Personnel, Transportation and Distribution Managers/Personnel, Inventory and Warehouse Control Professionals, Freight Forwarders and Linear Specialists, Production Managers, Production Planners, Financial Managers, Project Managers, Distribution Center Supervisors, Line Managers, Fleet Managers, Fleet Supervisors, Fleet Operators, Fleet Inspectors

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