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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is intended for supervisors, managers, systems analysts, and engineers who are working with problems that involve the use of material handling equipment in plants, warehouses, and other commercial enterprises. It is concerned with material flow, from the source of raw material through manufacturing and distribution systems to the final consumer.

OVERVIEW

Why the Renewed Interest in Material Handling Automation?
A solid Material Handling infrastructure is the basis for supply chain execution excellence regardless of the business—manufacturing, wholesaling or retailing. It is the enabler for workflow management, improved accuracy and throughput, control and safety. Competency in material handling not only allows a company to manage its own operations more efficiently, but also to make better decisions about outsourcing all or portions of those operations.

How will I benefit from attending this class?

1. Instruction focuses not only upon tools, but also upon the processes that are essential to assuring timely, error-free order fulfillment and inventory management.
2. Instructors are experienced industry experts who are at the very top of their fields and are excellent communicators.
3. Each class will feature case histories that illustrate how others have approached and resolved the challenges of supply chain performance optimization.
4. Participants come from a wide variety of industries and backgrounds. The formal and informal discussions that take place and the contacts that are made truly enhance the long- term benefits of the programs.
5. Reference materials on equipment, systems and other interesting and helpful pieces of information will be provided to all attendees on a CD/DVD that includes video clips from some of the 800+ member companies of the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA).

Material Handling is:

• Providing the right amount of the right material, at the right place, at the right time, in the right orientation, in the right sequence, in the right condition, and at the right cost, by using the right methods, and providing the right information.
• Moving, storing, controlling, and protecting material and applying this process to the data that supports it.
• A major competitive advantage, due to its impact on quality, cost, productivity, inventory, and response time; in sum, a revenue enhancer, not a cost contributor.
• Critical to Supply Chain Management, Order Fulfillment, and E-commerce implementation.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The longest running of all material handling short courses, Georgia Tech's Material Handling Short Course attracts attendees and speakers from around the world. The course focuses on proven solutions that have yielded major improvements. It joins the best recent industrial and consulting experience with the best available academic work to produce effective and efficient material handling systems.The program provides a combination of tutorials and case studies. Once again this year attendees will be provided hardware application videos on CD-Rom from MHIA's broad cross-section of membership. It includes many practical solutions to material handling problems. Participants will become familiar with solutions that others have developed for real-world problems. Interaction among participants and speakers will open up new ways to meet the challenges of this decade through the connections that are made to other people in the business.

Every effort is made to present the course as advertised herein; however, circumstances may make it necessary to alter the schedule and/or presenters.