Understanding and controlling business processes
Commercial and IT training in the Mapal Group
As part of your commercial or IT training at MAPAL, you’ll gain a comprehensive insight into all economic business processes – in a global environment.
From Sales to Purchasing to Logistics: You’ll be expertly trained and deployed in all commercial areas. You’ll work directly in the day-to-day business, learn how to use globally networked systems such as SAP and be the contact person for customers and business partners. You’ll also gain an insight into our technical processes and the demands that MAPAL places on the manufacturing of precision tools.
Overview of commercial apprenticeships
Developing software is the focus of your training as an IT specialist for application development. You get to plan, design and program a wide variety of programs and applications and develop user-friendly user interfaces that are suitable for the application. Various programming languages and special developer tools are used here. However, training people to use the new software is also part of your job description.
Requirements:
- Good secondary school certificate, vocational baccalaureate diploma or A-levels
- Good mathematical skills and technical understanding
- Interest in hardware, software, etc.
- Ability to think logically
- Good initiative, diligent, possesses organisational skills, patient
Training content:
- Information and telecommunication systems
- System development: Learning and applying different test procedures, expanding application solutions
- Testing and adapting existing applications
- Troubleshooting
- Creating customised application solutions
- Training: Getting familiar with different training and consulting methods
Duration of training:
- 3 years
- If you perform well at school and in the workplace, you can shorten your course by half a year or even a whole year
Possible applications:
- • IT area
• Software development
Training sites:
- Aalen
IT specialists specialising in system integration are responsible for planning and configuring IT systems. This includes installing and setting up hardware components, operating systems and networks. In case of faults, you are on the scene and ready to help the users with application problems. During your training, you will learn, among other things, how to distinguish between operating systems and their areas of application and what you need to consider when customising and configuring them. You will also gain experience in the application of programming logics and methods and in testing systems.
Requirements:
- Good to very good secondary school certificate, vocational baccalaureate diploma or A-levels
- Distinct ability to work in a team, analytical thinking, interest in hardware/software
Training content:
- Designing/implementing IT systems
- Installing/configuring networked IT systems
- Error detection and correction
- Presenting solutions
- Training users
- Project planning
Duration of training:
- 3 years
Possible applications:
- IT area
- Support
Ausbildungsstandorte:
- Aalen
- Altenstadt
- Pforzheim
During their training, warehouse logistics specialists learn how to store goods properly, how to prepare economic and on-time route plans, and how to create loading lists and loading plans. You’ll operate forklifts, load trucks and organise the unloading of goods. In addition, you’ll get to compile deliveries, prepare offers and help with inventory work as well as simple annual financial statements. You’ll learn all about the profession during a three-year training programme. Alternative career path: Specialised warehouse assistants also receive the qualification “warehouse logistics specialist” by extending their training for one year.
Requirements:
- Good secondary school leaving certificate
- Good and quick perception
- Prudent and careful way of working, organisational skills, sense of responsibility
- Happy to do physical work
Training content:
- Receipt of goods
- Proper sorting and storage
- Posting transactions in SAP
- Participating in logistical planning and organisational processes
- Order picking and goods dispatch
Duration of training:
- 3 years
- Alternatively as a one-year extension of the training as a warehouse clerk (m/f/d)
Possible applications:
- In all logistics departments, e.g. goods receipt, warehouse, dispatch
Training sites:
- Aalen
- Altenstadt
Warehouse clerks receive, sort, store and forward goods. They work with various aids, such as forklift trucks or automatic sorting systems. During your training, you’ll learn, among other things, how to check stocks and order documents and how to carry out work orders in a way that focuses on the customer. You’ll also learn what’s important when it comes to storing goods. After the two-year apprenticeship and subsequent employment, you’ll be able to work in our logistics and shipping area.
Requirements:
- Good secondary school leaving certificate
- Good and quick perception
Training content:
- Receipt of goods
- Proper sorting and storage
- Posting transactions in SAP
- Order picking and goods dispatch
Duration of training:
- 2 years
- A one-year extension of the training as a warehouse logistics specialist (m/f/d) is possible if you perform well at school and in the workplace
Possible applications:
- In all logistics departments, e.g. goods receipt, warehouse, dispatch
Training sites:
- Altenstadt
Industriekaufleute unterstützen die kaufmännischen Prozesse in den Unternehmen. Du wirst im Laufe deiner Ausbildung in allen kaufmännischen Bereichen unseres Unternehmens fachkundig geschult und eingesetzt. So lernst du alle wichtigen Abläufe in den unterschiedlichen Fachbereichen kennen.
Voraussetzungen:
- Guter Realschulabschluss
- Gute und schnelle Auffassungsgabe, Organisationstalent
- Kommunikationsfähigkeit
- Zuverlässigkeit und Teamfähigkeit
Ausbildungsinhalte:
- Praxisorientiertes Umsetzen der Ausbildungsinhalte in den Bereichen Materialwirtschaft / Logistik, Finanz- und Rechnungswesen, Personalwesen, Marketing und Vertrieb
Ausbildungsdauer:
- 3 Jahre
Einsatzmöglichkeiten:
- In allen kaufmännischen Abteilungen
Ausbildungsstandorte:
- Altenstadt
- Pforzheim
- Winterlingen
Kaufleute für Büromanagement sind für die unterschiedlichsten anfallenden Bürotätigkeiten zuständig – von Buchhaltung und Rechnungswesen über die Kundenkommunikation bis zu Sekretariatsaufgaben. Nach der maximal drei Jahre dauernden Ausbildung kannst du in allen kaufmännischen Bereichen unseres Unternehmens eingesetzt werden.
Voraussetzungen:
- Guter Realschulabschluss
- Gute Noten in Deutsch, Englisch und Mathematik
- Sorgfältige Arbeitsweise, schnelle Auffassungsgabe, gute Selbstorganisation
- Gutes mündliches und schriftliches Ausdrucksvermögen
- Teamfähigkeit, Flexibilität, Zuverlässigkeit
Ausbildungsinhalte:
- Praxisorientiertes Umsetzen der Ausbildungsinhalte in allen kaufmännischen Bereichen des Unternehmens
- Anwendung betrieblicher Kommunikationssysteme
- Mitwirken bei Projekten
Ausbildungsdauer:
- 3 Jahre
- Bei guten schulischen und betrieblichen Leistungen ist eine Verkürzung um ein halbes beziehungsweise ganzes Jahr möglich.
Einsatzmöglichkeiten:
- In kaufmännischen Abteilungen wie Einkauf, Customer Service oder Assistenz
Ausbildungsstandorte:
- Meiningen