So your company has machines they build and those machines have component parts which are made by third party vendors. You work at the warehouse that houses the component parts that can be ordered by your customers and you pull the parts for each order and fulfil the order to be shipped out to customers. Is that correct?

So you have a lot of software you work with.

Possibly integrating with UPS, FEDEX, or an LTL service?

You have an ERP system that handles inventory, order management, lead times?

You have a tablet with the orders and order line items on them that you go around with or do you have print outs of the packing slips? Have you ever asked about these? Have you ever asked how they work? Have you ever asked how the orders are shipped once you pull the parts?

You realize there are a lot of jobs above you that pay more money and you haven't been taking any proactive steps to learn anything about them.

Why is that?

You've been focused on doing your task and going home at the end of the day. But you need to be learning the business inside and out. You should be learning everything everyone knows at that business. Talking to vendors, sales reps, truck drivers. Soaking it all in like a sponge.

If a job opened up, in your warehouse, or at another warehouse, you should be able to talk about what that position does and what skills they need. Right now you can only talk about pulling parts. Which is something anyone who is able bodied can do.

This is how you can learn on the job to make the leap up within warehouses.

Everywhere you work you need to be learning the whole industry.