On May 18, 2021, Tongji SEM students visited the Bosch PowerTools Warehouse in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province. The group consisted of students from the MBA and the Tricontinental Master in Global Supply Chain Management program. Online, students from Germany, the US, Spain, Kenya, and the Netherlands had the opportunity to participate in this company visit.

Group photo with Bosch & SF teams

Livestreaming of the company visit to students abroad

The team around Jens Kammerer, Bosch Director Warehousing APAC, introduced the company to us, its supply chain management practices and explained the vital role that the warehouse plays in ensuring timely distribution to B2B and B2C customers of Bosch PowerTools in East China. Later we had the opportunity to see the inbound and outbound operations of the warehouse and a specifically developed digital dashboard that showed KPIs, visualizied high-running parts, and helped to identify areas for improvement.

Wang Suhan, Bosch Warehouse Specialist Asia-Pacific, shared that “it was our pleasure to spend a lovely and informative day with the students from Tongji University. It was nice to see motivated, qualified high potentials who are curious about Logistics. This is also an excellent opportunity for Bosch to show our company and exchange topics with the young generation. I hope this experience inspires them and will be helpful for their later work!”

Students putting on safety vests before walking into the warehouse

Also, our students enjoyed the visit. “Walking down the warehouse was totally different from visiting the wide and clean office of most companies. It gets me to know how warehouse operations look really like. It was a pretty cool experience!” one student said. And another one added, “From the conversation with the staff, we now know that Bosch doesn’t own this warehouse and instead chose SF as their vendor to provide the warehousing operations. The very lean approach by Bosch and their close cooperation with SF really surprised me!”