Are you looking to streamline warehouse operations?
Do you need your team of Warehouse and operations guys to operate efficiently, use space effectively, control costing well and meets your clients’ expectations all the time?

If you looking to streamline your warehouse operations, you must train your team to be in tip-top operations mode, integrating a seamless storing and management system for physical goods.

The Key to an Effective Warehouse Management is to have 8 key Operational Factors, which are:

• Receiving Control
• Warehouse Management/Planning
• Issuing Control
• Material Handling Control
• Data Management
• Inventory Reconciliation & Control
• Safety and Space Management
• Effective Time Management

By the end of this Warehouse Management and Operation control course, you will be able to:

• Understand the systems used to manage warehousing and stores activities effectively
• Evaluate procedures on wasteful activities and excess costs
• Increase efficiency and accuracy, traceabilit
• Identify the tools to accurately measure performance objectives
• Design practical Action plans that reduce obsolescence , write-offs and better time management
• Handle the real-life issues related to warehouse and stores management
• Develop the right attitude and mindset as a professional Warehouse professional

This Warehouse Management and Operation 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 about Warehouse and Inventory management as well as 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.

• The Role of the Warehouse
• Why we need a warehouse,
• What functions they cover,
• How do they fit into the supply chain
• The balance between sorting and storing
• 12 initial questions to ask about warehousing activity
• Product Classification
• Supply /demand variables
• ABC Analysis or the 80/20 rule
• Determining product handling groups
• Throughputs and product formats

• Receiving options
• Storage options
• Picking/assembly options
• Dispatching options
• Using the floor and the height space
• Organising for flow
• Methods and Equipment

• Warehouse structures
• Loading bays
• Selecting fork lift trucks
• Selecting racking
• Implications for warehouse layouts
• Operational timings and planning

• Duty of care
• Inspections and risk assessments-task analysis
• Equipment maintenance and care
• Raising people's awareness
• Security and Loss
• Minimizing internal theft
• Minimizing external theft
• Preventative measures will be briefly discussed.

• Fixed and variable cost
• Typical costs involved
• A model for understanding the roles of productivity, utilisation, and performance
• Setting productivity and cost targets
• The importance of having measurements and key indications of performance
• Service Levels

• Internal and external customers
• Customer service sampling
• Effects of substandard service
• Minimising misunderstanding and errors

• Different types of layout with advantages and disadvantages
• Planning for flow in the warehouse
• Checklists to help on deciding the best option

• 7 Tips to better warehouse management
• The top 7  warehousing ideals for continuous improvement

• Inventory and the Supply Chain
• Inventory management definition
• Types of stock
• Demand amplifications
• Demand replenishment in networks
• Managing the flows
• Type I and II supply chains
• The Supply Chain Rules
• Inventory and statistics
• Concept of service level

• Key Component: Demand Analysis
• Key Component: Demand Forecasting
• Key Component: Supply Lead Time
• Key Component: Cost & Benefits
• Inventory benefits
• Inventory polices
• Inventory in organizations

• Basic mechanics of inventory systems
• The stock time curve
• Stock components
• Stock investment
• Free stock calculation
• Simple replenishment methods, for example, Min/Max
• Accurate replenishment methods, for example, Reorder Point and Reorder Level (ROP/ROL)
• Requirements planning systems, for example, Materials/Manufacturing Resource/Requirements Planning (MRP / MRPII)

• Stock Control-Coding
• Different coding methods
• Importance of inventory receipts
• Identifying surplus and obsolescent stock
• Checklists to help on deciding the best option
• Stock Control-Recording

• Legal issues
• How do we get inaccuracies?
• Stock Control-Checking

• Requirements
• Job Descriptions
• Authority levels
• Tolerances and approvals
• The stock check programme
• Options for stock checking methods
• Reconciliations / discrepancies
• Inventory Performance

• Assessing the stock level
• Models for implementing inventory control
• Determining stock targets
• Inventory questions
• Inventory KPI's in warehouses/stores

• Push/pull
• Quick response (QR)
• Efficient consumer response (ECR)
• Collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment (CPFR)
• Lean and agile approaches
• Quality Management
• Postponement
• Cross Docking
• Consolidation
• Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
• Consignment stocking
• Co Managed Inventory (CMI)
• Direct product profitability (DPP)
• Economic value added (EVA)
• Collaborative supply chains
• Inventory Improvements

• Using the Theory of Constraints
• Practical inventory improvements
• Call offs and Telemetry
• EDI and ICT
• Keys to reducing stock levels
• The 7 Rules for planning inventory
• Model for planning inventory

This Warehouse Management course comes alive with the several modules of interactive lectures, participative discussions, and many case studies that debunk and discusses the solutions to real-life problems makes the core of the training.

Bring back your experience and knowledge back at work place the following day for practical work applications and solutions.