INVENTORY/STOCK CONTROL

Live-Online Training: N220,000.00
Classroom Training: N 280,000.00
3 - 4 participants: 5% discount
5 or more participants: 10% discount

(Available also for Customised Training by Duration, Venue & Fee)

Programme Objectives

This course delivers four broad competencies:

• Reasons for holding Inventory
• Accurate Inventory records
• Difference between Stock recording and Inventory control
• Security of Stores.

Course Contents

DAY ONE

Reasons for Inventory

• Forecasting Future Demands
• Demand patterns
• Trends
• Seasonal variations
• Random fluctuations
• Sporadic demand

When to Order

• Safety stocks
• Re-Order levels
• Standard deviation
• Service factors. 

DAY TWO

How Much to Order

• Economic Order Quantity
• Lot sizing
• Forecasting
• MRP and ERP
• Time Phasing
• Explosion Routines
• Schedule Regeneration
• Just-in-Time

Financial Considerations

• Inventory turnover
• Effects on the cash flow
• Effects on the working capital
• Profitability - the Return on Investment

Managing the Costs

• Inventory cost implications
• Ordering cost
• Running costs
• Cost of money
• Wastage
• Insurance

DAY THREE

Systems of Inventory Management

• ABC Analysis
• Quantity Based Systems
• Time Based Systems
• Differential Stock Control
• Consignment Stock
• Vendor Maintained Inventory
• Kanban

Stocktaking

• Reasons
• Periodic
• Continuous
• Treatment of Discrepancies

Obsolete Redundant and Surplus Stocks

• Identification
• Disposal.