Our Logistics Intelligence at Work for You.  

LIDD offers a range of courses and expert led workshops designed to provide further training and continued education to warehouse workers and DC managers. Our courses cover all the topics essential to the strategic management of your supply chain and the optimal efficiency of your operations.

LIDD experts empower your employees to better identify and implement solutions to improve your operations.

• LIDD’s designers and engineers teach how to:
  • Identify and use the proper KPIs to assess your operation’s efficiency
  • Calculate and make better use of your warehouse’s capacity
  • Optimize your picking activities
  • Enable new sales channels
  • Etc.

• LIDD’s technology specialists lead workshops on how to:
  • Leverage all the capabilities of your ERP’s modules
  • Make more efficient use of your WMS’ functionalities
  • Manage software implementations through role definition, integrated testing, and mock Go-Lives
  • Maintain your systems as your business requirements evolve
  • Etc.

Upon request, our experts can also design custom courses and workshops to cover specific subject matters that are relevant to your operation’s performance.

Provinces in Canada and many states in the United States have put in place programs to help businesses fund the continuous education and training of their employees. Should you have difficulties finding information pertaining to such programs in your area, do not hesitate to reach out to us. It will be our pleasure to help you.

Put LIDD’s logistics intelligence and supply chain experience at work for you. Browse through our courses offering and contact a LIDD expert for more information.

Courses on Offer at the Moment: 

Increasing Capacity & Throughput in Picking Operations 

Many businesses have seen the volume of online orders explode over the last few months. If that your case, there are some relatively easy actions you can take to increase your storage capacity and order throughput in the short-term.

This course teaches ways to change your basic pick-and-pack operation. We will cover means to rapidly enable your operation to push more orders out the door with limited capital investments.

At the end of this course, students will know how to: 

• Maximize the use of the storage types you already have in order to increase capacity; 
• Slot products more effectively & use zone management to reduce pick paths; 
• Pick in more sophisticated, yet easy-to-execute ways that increase productivity. 

If your e-commerce orders have spiked since the onset of Covid-19 restrictions, there are some relatively easy actions you can take to increase your storage capacity and order throughput in the short-term. This course will help prepare your teams to make the best of the situation.  

KPIs in the Distribution Center 

This course identifies and teaches the KPIs needed to assess your operation’s efficiency. Learn how to measure and evaluate your labour’s performance, the use of your DC’s storage space, throughput, process quality, and the financial performance of your capital investments.

Upon completion of this course, students will have been trained to identify and track the key metrics that determine a DC’s level of performance. Students will know how to:

• Define and measure the value of a given metric;
• Improve and balance multiple variables to optimize an operation’s performance;
• In food and retail industries: Refer to industry benchmarks to gauge the relative performance of your manufacturing and distribution operations.