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Warehouse Manager

Position Overview

A Warehouse Manager oversees the efficient receipt, storage, and dispatch of a wide range of goods. They ensure productivity targets are met and maintain administration and operational standards. This role involves managing a team, coordinating logistics, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Additionally, they are responsible for implementing performance management and continuous improvement initiatives.

What does a warehouse manager do?

  • Identify and address warehousing considerations
  • Apply an understanding of warehouse processes and order flow
  • Apply an understanding of performance management and continuous improvement
  • Apply an understanding of characteristics of warehousing
  • Apply an understanding of materials handling
  • Perform inventory auditing
  • Apply an understanding of logistics relationships and interdependencies
  • Utilize warehouse systems
  • Prepare and utilize documentation
  • Apply an understanding of the role of logistics in supply chain management
  • Apply an understanding of cost and service optimization factors and their interactions
  • Develop and monitor performance management metrics (KPIs) 
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    Technical skills

    • Warehouse capacity constraint
    • Picking and packing - first in, first out (FIFO); last in, first out (LIFO)
    • Economic impact of logistics
    • Warehouse strategy
    • Challenges of warehousing (e.g., space, location, and resource constraints)
    • Principles and components of logistics and logistics strategy
    • Transportation, labor, and inventory costs
    • Storage and inventory management
    • Warehouse management system (WMS)
    • Transportation capacity constraint
    • Customer and stakeholder satisfaction and service levels
    • Inbound and outbound capacity
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    Leadership Skills

    • People management
    • Collaboration
    • Time management

    Salary Ranges for a Warehouse Manager

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    Salary Ranges for a Warehouse Manager

    Education

    Top Undergraduate Area of Study:

    1. Business Administration
    2. Supply Chain Management
    3. Engineering

    Top Graduate Areas of Study:

    1. Supply Chain Management
    2. Business Administration
    3. Transportation, logistics or distribution
    Warehouse Manager Education