SCM 364 - LEAN WAREHOUSE MGM

Institution:

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

The warehouse serves a trans-shipment point matching product availability to customer demand. The primary purpose of warehouse is to facilitate the movement of goods from supplier to customers, meeting demand in a timely and cost effective manner. The traditional warehouse operations focused on the economy scale and the accumulations and consolidation of inventory in order to reduce the expenses. However, as the magnified number and variety of orders and shortened lead-time of the order process, companies must be able to customize the order fulfillment promptly and accurately. The course will focus on the area that challenge today's warehouse and logistic managers. These include improving efficiency and productivity; improving quality and accuracy; the challenge of reduced lead time from customers; technological advancement; workforce availability and management; health and safety; and efforts on the environment.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.kutztown.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 683-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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