NY/NJ/CT WERCouncil Event - Inventory Management: Warehouse Vs. Shop Floor

Many businesses view Inventory Management as a Materials Management issue, Inventory Accuracy as a Warehouse Management issue, and Shop Floor Control as an Operations issue. Individuals become specialists in their area of responsibility. This area of responsibility becomes a "silo" - an area of specialization devoted to specific tasks. We, and our co-workers, become experts, with a depth of knowledge in our area of responsibility. Business management objectives focus each of us on our "silo" and we begin to say "it's not my job," when presented with a problem in some other area. After all, others are charged with that responsibility, and we must meet our own objectives. As this becomes the method of operation for all departments, we toss problems over the wall, and some of those problems become "grenades," surprising and exploding on some other department, and they toss problems, and some "grenades" our way, surprising and exploding on us.

This presentation will show how to integrate the responsibilities of Inventory Management, Inventory Accuracy, and Shop Floor Control. You will understand the differences and similarities in the operations of the warehouse and shop floor, and the influences of Materials Management.

The attendee will learn the fundamentals of inventory accuracy through a ten-step process used in warehousing. They will learn how this ten-step process can be implemented on the Shop Floor. When inventory accuracy becomes a way of life in both the warehouse and the shop floor, everyone's job will become easier, and their will be fewer problems, and most importantly, fewer "grenades."

The NY/NJ/CT WERCouncil is please to co-sponsor this event with the Princeton/Trenton/Monmouth/Ocean (PTMO) Chapter of APICS.

Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Time & Location: 6:00 PM
Cranbury Inn, 21 South Main Street, Cranbury, NJ 08512
609-655-5595

WERC is the only professional organization focused exclusively on warehouse management providing practical how-to information to help members grow professionally as they improve warehouse and company performance.