Opened in 2014, the Capability Center Karlsruhe extends McKinsey & Company’s global network of capability centers to cover the topic of warehousing. At the Model Warehouse in the Capability Center, successful approaches used in lean manufacturing for decades are innovatively applied to warehousing. The center offers the opportunity to optimize typical warehouse operations, such as storage, pick and pack, and dispatch processes, and even more importantly, to build the capabilities required for running a holistic sustainable transformation in an experiential learning environment.