Sharpen Your Warehousing with These MODEX 2026 Seminars
With pressing labor shortages and rising costs, modernizing your warehousing and DC operations is essential to building a resilient supply chain. With that in mind, the Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) is offering the following 2 MODEX 2026 seminars to help empower your organization.
Setting a Course for Operational Improvement: Warehouse Metrics and DC Benchmarking
Monday, April 13 | 10:30 – 11:15 AM | MHI Industry Group Theater
Speaker: Michael Mikitka, EVP, MHI Knowledge Center and WERC at MHI
Join this seminar to learn the fundamental importance of benchmarking your warehousing performance. Michael Mikitka will outline a step-by-step approach to benchmarking that will impart the following takeways:
• Benchmarking Enhances Warehouse Efficiency: Benchmarking is an indispensable tool for improving productivity and operational efficiency in warehouses.
• Structured Benchmarking Process: You’ll learn a step-by-step approach, which covers essential elements such as identifying key metrics, collecting data, and comparing performance to uncover gaps and areas for improvement.
• Success Factors and Challenges: Hear the common challenges in benchmarking, as well as the attributes of effective performance measures, which will help organizations align with industry best practices.
Learn more about seminar | View WERC’s benchmarking tools
WERC Distribution Logistics Education Program: Upskill Your Career & Team
Monday, April 13 | 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Speakers: Sam Mazzola, Instructional Designer at MHI; Rebecca Woods, Director of Talent & Professional Development at MHI
Discover how MHI and WERC are equipping professionals for success in today’s warehousing and distribution landscape. The seminar highlights the Distribution Logistics Education Program, a series of online courses for warehousing and DC employees. Be in the room to gain the following insights:
• Comprehensive Skills Development: The Distribution Logistics Education Program offers six key courses designed to build critical skills in areas such as operations, safety, equipment, and leadership.
• Career and Team Advancement: You’ll learn how this program can help advance their careers and enhance their team’s capabilities in the competitive warehousing and distribution industry.
• Strategic Industry Training: MHI and WERC are providing targeted, industry-relevant education to prepare professionals for success in the evolving logistics landscape.
Learn more about seminar | View the Distribution Logistics Education Program
MODEX 2026 Seminars Offer Expert Insights
These are two of hundreds of free educational seminars that you can attend at MODEX 2026. Join them to gain expert perspective on such topics as automation and robotics, transportation and logistics, workforce & labor, and ecommerce fulfillment. MODEX 2026 is your best opportunity in 2026 to discover a new dimension of opportunity. Register now for free to join us at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, April 13–16.
