Effective Warehouse and Logistic Management
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Effective Warehouse and Logistic Management Course
Introduction:
The Warehouse and Inventory Management course comprises nineteen modules that encompass engaging lecture content, interactive discussions, and numerous case studies to enhance the learning experience. The course material is designed to provide practical insights and facilitate active participation. To reinforce the concepts learned during the training, a comprehensive course manual is provided, enabling participants to apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios. This comprehensive approach ensures that participants can effectively apply their learnings when they return to their workplaces.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to enable participants to develop the following competencies:
- Analyzing costs and lead times
- Understanding of the link of warehousing and inventory in the supply chain and its interactive components
- Changing current methods to optimize cost and serve trade-offs
- Improving current methods
- Sharing different approaches with all stakeholders for mutual gain
- Discussing, listening, and understanding the point of view of others
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 Organizing 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
- Checklists to help in deciding the best option.
- Separation of powers
- Legal issues
- How do we get inaccuracies?
Stock Checking
Much time can be spent on this activity, but there are methods to both minimize the time and at the same time increase checking accuracy. This session examines such aspects:
- Roles and responsibility
- Requirements
- Job Descriptions
- Authority levels
- Tolerances and approvals
- The program
- Options
- Reconciliations / discrepancies
Summary
Finally, in linking together all the sessions, we put forward simple overviews and a clear summary, including:
- The 7 step model for better warehouse management
- The top 20 warehousing ideals for continuous improvement
Inventory and the Supply Chain
- Inventory management definition
- Types of stock
- Demand amplifications