VIL Summer School: Warehousing – Automatisering
The right steps towards warehouse automation
The pressure on warehouses is mounting. Customers expect flexibility, flawless service and fast deliveries. Simultaneously, there is a growing focus on safety and operational costs continue to rise.
Innovative technologies help to organise warehouses and processes more efficiently.
How do you implement them without making costly mistakes?
During this interactive, practical two-day training course, you will learn how to develop your warehouse step by step into a future-proof environment. Together with Syntra Midden-Vlaanderen, VIL provides you with the essential basic principles, technological insights and a concrete step-by-step plan to prepare your warehouse or distribution centre for the future.
What do you learn?
✔ Insight in the challenges and pitfalls of modern warehousing
✔ The basic principles of an efficient warehouse operation
✔ Practical tips for optimalisation of warehouse processes
✔ Discover the latest automation and digitalisation technologies
Registration
Registrations are processed via the Syntra Midden-Vlaanderen website.
Do not miss out – register today via this link!
Practical
Date: 21 & 28 August 2026
Timings: 9 AM to 5 PM
Location: LogiVille, Galileilaan 3, 2845 Niel
Participation price: € 650,00 (Excl. VAT)
For whom:Warehouse managers, logistics managers, team leaders, operations coordinators, plant or site managers, or project managers
Programme
Day 1
- The basic principles of high-performance warehouse operations (supply chain integration, accurate master data, process analysis, location management, optimal use of space, etc.)
- Case study – part 1 – optimisation of a conventional warehouse
- Presentation of a low-efficiency warehouse operation
- Possible optimisation options – group work
- Presentation of the proposals by the group leader
- Project results in practice
- Automation and digitalisation – the rapid evolution of new technologies (sensors, algorithms, digital twins, AI, etc.) and their areas of application
Day 2
- Guided tour of the LogiVille demonstration centre – discover innovative solutions
- Case study – part 2 – new technologies, additional opportunities
- Scaling up the optimisation developed on Day 1 – group work
- Presentation of proposals by the group leader
- Discussion of the proposals
- To automate or not to automate
- Automation, non-automation or the sensible integration of partial automation – how to make the right choices
Teacher: Paul Van Nuffel, Manager LogiVille (VIL) LinkedIn
Paul has spent his entire career in the logistics sector. He started out as a logistics manager at Carrefour (then known as the GIB Group), but for the last 25 years he has worked as a freelance consultant and project engineer, specialising in warehousing.
Do not miss out, Register now via the link below.
- 21/08/2026
- End date: 28/08/2026
- 9 AM - 5 PM
- Galileilaan 3, 2845 Niel
- € 650,00 p.p. (Excl. VAT)
