Warehouseman

Specialist for warehouse logistics ( Germany ) or storage logistics ( Austria ) is a three-year -to-learn apprenticeship in industry, trade and service. Specialists for warehouse logistics work in the area of ​​logistical planning and organization. Its tasks are, among others, to take goods to commission, to load, to store, to carry and pack.

  • 4.1 Germany
  • 4.2 Austria

Basis

On 25 March 1991, the Regulation on the development and testing of the training profession specialist for warehouse economy was adopted, which entered into force on 1 August 1991. The regulation governed the trial of a three-year training course for warehouse management. The instructional content included, among other things, shipment processing, order picking, warehousing as well as the operational and logistics organization. After the evaluation of the experimental period sparked the Regulation on the vocational training to become a specialist for warehouse logistics since August 1, 2004, the above Regulation from, and thus created the legal basis of the training course for specialists in warehouse logistics. The determined during the evaluation necessary qualifications included in the new training program with a. In order to clarify the focus of process orientation, the logistics concept was taken over in the job title. New focal points are now the commercial and the dispositive area. New requirements in the professional and key skills, such as teamwork, customer orientation, knowledge of foreign languages ​​and accounting, have been included in the training regulations.

Specialists for warehouse logistics optimize the materials, information and value flow, from procurement to sales. Perform the analysis of the procurement planning by looking for suppliers who work offers and compare them. In addition, they also carry out orders. Furthermore, the calculation of stock indices, inventory and financial statements in a simple form of their work.

Vocational

The remit includes, for example, inventory controls, creating loading lists or processing of shipping and accompanying documents. In addition, more general and more abstract demands are placed on the specialist for warehouse logistics, such as the handling of computer systems, knowledge of safety and environmental protection. By regrouping the job description and the link to the commercial professions even dealing with stock indices and basic concepts of accounting is expected. This content provides the specialist for warehouse logistics a complete calculation of a bearing. This is needed in order to check the effectiveness and efficiency of the bearing and control.

The training plan includes the following curricula:

  • Vocational training, labor law and collective bargaining
  • Structure and organization of the training company
  • Health and safety at work
  • Conservation
  • Organization of work; Information and Communication
  • Logistic processes; quality assurance measures
  • Use of machinery
  • Acceptance of goods
  • Storage of goods
  • Picking and packing of goods
  • Delivery of goods
  • Commercial Management and Control

Training

Germany

The training takes place in the dual system of vocational schools and training companies in industry and trade. The training period is three years and ends with the final exam. The training companies expect from applicants usually have a qualifying secondary school or high school.

You'll also need:

  • Good understanding of numbers
  • Technical interest
  • Interest in working with computer
  • The ability to independently and work in a team
  • Exercise capacity
  • Knowledge of foreign languages
  • Industrial trucks certificate
  • Responsibility / reliability
  • Flexibility
  • Organizational capacity
  • Logical understanding

Austria

In Austria is the official name according to the Vocational Training Act (BAG ) camp logistics. The training contents differ only slightly from those in Germany. This test is the same as a degree in teaching office administrator. The teaching time for the completion of related professions, such as purchasing, logistics freight forwarding or shipping clerk, and several other office and administrative occupations, shortened by one to two years.

Training opportunities

Germany

Certified Logistics Master / Mistress Certified Logistics:

Technical Business Administration / Technical Business Administration ( IHK) in the areas of procurement and logistics, inventory management, logistics

Specialists and economists / economic inside, Commercial specialists:

  • Business Administrator / in traffic
  • Technical / r Fachwirt / in
  • Fachkaufmann / female Purchasing and Logistics
  • Fachkaufmann / woman stockpiling
  • Industriefachwirt
  • Logistics Technician
  • Graduate logistics
  • Business Administration for logistics

Higher education courses:

  • Master of Business Administration
  • Dipl.- Kaufmann logistics
  • Industrial Engineer Logistics
  • Master of Science ( M.Sc. ) Transport & Logistics

Austria

A master training is not provided for in Austria. The offer for specialist training in courses and course form is comprehensive, such as courses on new storage and logistics techniques and systems, computer programs for warehouse management, E-Business, Economics, English or quality assurance.

For higher qualifications at colleges, technical colleges and universities are required to access most of the vocational baccalaureate ( Berufsreifeprüfung ), which is composed of the final exam and four other tests. As a result of academic qualifications for logistics management, industrial logistics, etc. can be purchased.

General

Typical employers include:

  • Haulage
  • Industrial enterprises
  • Trading company
  • Logistics service
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