Certified Advanced Warehouse Management
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Certified Advanced Warehouse Management Course
Introduction:
With inventories worth millions of dollars, it is crucial to have a well-designed and secure warehouse to store and protect these valuable assets. In this course, we will delve into the latest and most effective methods for storing and safeguarding high-value inventories. We will also explore the essential features that define a modern warehouse.
Proper warehousing management hinges on knowing what you have and accurately tracking inventory quantities. We will discuss various methods to achieve record accuracy and successful cycle counting, ensuring inventory counts align with actual stock levels. Additionally, a scientific auditing method will be applied to assess warehouse operations.
By participating in this course, you will gain invaluable insights into optimizing warehouse management, protecting high-value inventories, and implementing efficient inventory control practices.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this program you will be able to:
- Learn the principles of Warehouse and Inventory Management
- Evaluate current procedures
- Examine operations and activities
- Analyze the key areas of operations
- Identify and Understand key performance indicators
- Succeed in improving operations
- Improve personal productivity
- Make needed changes to methods to improve customer service whilst achieving reductions in inventory
- Eliminate wasteful costs
- Avoid those internal problems that limit performance
- Explain the challenges, objectives, and functions of warehousing
- Perform ABC inventory classification and cycle counting
- Calculate record accuracy and discrepancies
- Identify the different types of storage and material handling systems
- Improve supervisory skills and deal more effectively with warehouse staff issues
- Develop better skills for housekeeping and safety within the warehouse
- Measure warehouse productivity using the right KPIs
Who Should Attend?
- This program is for all individuals who have a stake in the Supply Chain and all Logistics, Materials, Inventory, Stock, Warehouse and Distribution Professionals
- It will also help those who need to develop their limited understanding of Warehouse and Inventory management
- It will be especially helpful to all those who are looking to make business gains and benefits and to any owners, operators, and directors of companies with warehouse and stores operations and who hold stock and inventory
Course Outlines:
The Role of the Warehouse
- An introduction to why we need a warehouse, what functions do they cover, how do they fit into the supply chain including:
- The balance between sorting and storing
- 12 initial questions to ask about warehousing activity
Product Classification
- It is important to establish key characteristics of the products handled as this have implications for all the warehouse operations. Such characteristics include:
- Supply /demand variables
- ABC Analysis or the 80/20 rule
- Determining product handling groups
- Throughputs and product formats
Layout Options
- In examining all the operations undertaken, the balance has to be found between maximizing space usage whilst minimizing the time taken to carry out the operations. This involves looking at:
- Receiving options
- Storage options
- Picking/assembly options
- Dispatching options
- Using the floor and the height space Organising for flow
Methods and Equipment
- Here we specifically look at the lifting, storing and moving equipment available for specific layout options, including:
- Warehouse structures
- Loading bays
- Selecting forklift trucks
- Selecting racking
- Implications for warehouse layouts
- Operational timings and planning
Health and Safety
- Warehouses are potentially dangerous areas in which to work, and an overview of the appropriate legalization will be looked at, including:
- Duty of care
- Inspections and risk assessments-task analysis
- Equipment maintenance and care
- Raising peoples awareness
Security and Loss
- This session looks at minimizing internal and external theft, recognizing that, generally internal theft is the major problem. Preventative measures will be briefly discussed.
Productivity and Costs
- To make operations efficient and effective, then cost control and productivity need to be managed. This session will therefore look at:
- Fixed and variable cost
- Typical costs involved
- A model for understanding the roles of productivity, utilization, and performance
- Setting productivity and cost targets
- The importance of having measurements and key indications of performance
Service Levels
- As Warehouses are a link in the total process of satisfying customers, this session will therefore look at:
- Internal and external customers
- The three key customer service measure
- Customer service sampling
- Effects of substandard service
- Minimizing errors
Stock Coding
- The method by which stock is coded is important in the overall management process, this session will examine:
- Different methods
- Understanding of all involved