'Let's relieve you from the pressure' - the 'Logistics under Pressure' Convention organized by SPAN Group at the Intercontinental Dubai Festival City Hotel. Just regarding the convention's head line, one can understand that they had only good intentions…

The objective of the seminar was to create awareness and understanding about the continuous challenge of bearing the logistic operations' pressure driven by the increased demand for speed, efficiency and cost-cutting – in other word: "The competition is breathing down your necks and so is your boss". 

Seven distinct presentations were discussed, all designed to bring together opinions and experiences from across seven logistic areas, namely:

• Dock Design
• Voice Technology
• Supply Chain Management
• Warehouse Safety Management
• Automation
• Warehouse Simulation

The presentations enhanced with deep insights and substantiated with case studies to cover an entire range of solutions to help coping and managing with all of the above.

What does that have to do with the ISO 9001 Standard and quality management?
Let's look again at the subjects discussed:

• Dock Design – Continual improvement (chapter 8.5.1)
• Voice Technology  - records control  (chapter 4.2.3)
• Supply Chain Management – Purchasing (chapter 7.4)
• Warehouse Safety Management – Resource, infrastructures, and work environment management (chapter 6)
• Automation – Measurement, analysis and improvement (chapter 8)
• Warehouse Simulation - Continual improvement (chapter 8.5.1)