Warehousing Transportation and Stores Safety
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Warehousing Transportation and Stores Safety Course
Introduction:
Warehouses often house valuable inventories worth millions of dollars, making it crucial to have the right infrastructure and practices to ensure their proper storage and protection. This course focuses on the latest and most effective methods for managing high-value inventories and creating modern warehouses. Participants will gain insights into inventory tracking and management techniques, including achieving record accuracy and implementing successful cycle counting. Additionally, a scientific approach to warehouse auditing will be explored, enabling participants to optimize their warehouse operations and safeguard their valuable assets.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- 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
- Conduct a scientific audit of the warehouse
Who Should Attend?
This course is suitable for those involved in warehousing (store) activities, both at the operational and supervisory levels. The program is also appropriate for anyone interested to know more about the interaction between warehousing and other materials management functions (purchasing, inventory control, and distribution).
Course Outlines:
INTRODUCTION TO WAREHOUSING MANAGEMENT
- Objectives of Warehousing
- The Warehousing Cycle
- Problems and Challenges in Warehousing
- Warehousing and Inventory Costs
- Customer Service in Warehousing
INVENTORY CLASSIFICATION AND RECORD ACCURACY
- Types of Inventory
- The ABC Classification
- Uses of the ABC Classification
- Inventory Record Accuracy
- Reasons for Poor Accuracy
- Periodic and Cycle Counting
- Systems and Methodology of Counting
STORAGE AND MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEMS
- Layout of the Warehouse
- Storage Utilization and Organization
- Types of Storage Systems
- Fixed versus Random Location
- Material Handling Equipment
- Improving the Receiving/Issuing Material Operations
DEALING WITH STAFF-RELATED WAREHOUSING ISSUES
- Key Roles of Warehouse Manager/Supervisor
- Staff Management Issues
- Corrective Guidance Techniques
SAFETY IN THE WAREHOUSE
- Good Housekeeping inside the Warehouse
- Identifying Safety Hazards
- Unsafe Acts and Conditions
- Causes of Damage
- Planning for Safety
PRODUCTIVITY AND AUDIT OF A WAREHOUSE
- Definition of Productivity
- Causes of Lost Time
- Warehousing Key Performance Indicators
- Objectives of the Warehouse Audit
- Components of the Audit
- Steps to Follow Before, During, and After the Audit
REGULAR WAREHOUSE SAFETY AWARENESS
- Safety procedures or systems are in place to run a warehouse
- Implementing warehouse procedures.
- Ensure safety remains a top priority.
- Enforcement and review is essential.