Material Handler EDC Bleiswijk

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Cold Room/Freezers -22degreesF/-6degrees C, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Standing for full shift, Warehouse

Job Description

Purpose of the Job

The material handler is responsible for picking or packing the products required for customer orders from their respective locations based on picking slips, outbound License Plate Numbers OLPN's, Tasks, or information in the scanners, and hand them over to the shipping department for further processing.

Job and Position Context

The EDC in Bleiswijk is the main European Distribution Center in Europe, shipping to customers on the European continent, Africa, and the Middle East. Inventory is received from manufacturing sites and suppliers from all over the world.

The site is ISO9001 and GDP certified, and a ThermoFisher Zero Waste site.

The EDC ships > 1mn orders per year out to customers and other ThermoFisher sites.

It holds > $ 50mn of inventory stored on > 66K different bin locations, spread over ambient, cold room (+5C) and frozen (-18C) walk-in areas, and -80C and -170C freezer chests.

Stock is stored as item numbers or SKUs (Stock Keeping Units), and most SKUs are also lot controlled. Both SKU and lot number need to be managed and recorded throughout the warehouse processes.

There are 4 separate ERP systems in which stock and inbound & outbound orders are registered: SAP, Arrow, and E1 with WMS. This spread of complex processes over the different systems makes stock management, cycle counting, and all administration of orders very complicated and challenging.

Despite this, stock accuracy is kept over 97.5%, and shipping accuracy is over 99.7%. These accuracies are critical, since customers’ research can depend on getting the correct SKU/Lot delivered consistently throughout their projects.

All employees at the EDC are required to perform their tasks in accordance with the EDC QMS, and to participate in a number of EH&S, PPI, and Lean activities:

• Reporting potentially hazardous situations in the INTELEX reporting tool
• Tier meeting with their teams to discuss yesterday’s results and planning for today
• Participate in 5S initiatives and checks to keep warehouse and offices organized and efficient.