STRATEGIC WAREHOUSING COURSE

Live-Online Training: N 155,000
Classroom Training: N 195,000
3 - 4 participants: 5% discount
5 or more participants: 10% discount

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

Course Objectives

Efficient warehouse operations do the following:

• Provide timely customer service
• Keep track of items so that they can be found easily and correctly.
• Minimize the organization’s physical effort and thus

Participants in this course will:

• Understand the strategic importance of warehousing and stores management in company profitability.
• Appreciate the underlying principles and applications of Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Use the accounting procedures required in issuance of materials
• Apply the concept of the organization distribution cost as a working model
• Implement good warehousing practices.

Course Contents

DAY ONE

• Types of Warehouses
• Warehouse design, partitioning and control procedures
• • partition/stock locations
• Inventory:
• • Ordering
• Flow of Materials:
• • Purchased materials
  • Work In Progress (WIP)
• Numbering and classification systems for different stores items
• • Numeric
  • Combination of numeric and alphabet.
• Stock Control
• • Stock Classification
  • Stock Counts
  • Stock Accuracy
  • Stock Valuation
  • Safety Stock
  • Stock Keeping
  • Reporting Processes for Stock
  • Processing of Stock-Essence of Timing.

DAY TWO

• Issuance of materials, FIFO, LIFO, etc.
• Materials Requisition Planning (MRP)
• Finished Goods:
• • Distribution Planning
  • Distribution Control
• Maintenance, Repair and Operational Supplier (MRO)
• Store keeping and related documentation
• Inventory management
• Handling of Returned Goods/Objections.

DAY THREE

• SOP for Warehouse Loading & Unloading
• Work Zones/Safe Zones Demarcation
• Forklift, Crane and Truck Operations
• Loading and Unloading Scheduling
• Full Load Risks Assessment
• Load Restraint
• Truck Bracing, Dunnage, Strapping
• Traffic Management
• Waybill, Manifest and other Supporting Documentation
• Handling Damages.

DAY FOUR

• Good house-keeping practices:
• • Arrangement
  • Accessibility
  • Cleanliness
  • Procedure
  • Spacing
  • Fumigation
  • Identification
• Treatment of discrepancies
• Obsolescence, obsoleteness, redundancy and deterioration
• Personnel:
• • Honesty
  • Diligence
  • Accountability
  • Numeric competence
  • Observant
  • Neat/orderly
  • Hard working
  • Good public relations
• Health, Safety & Environment (HSE)
• • Identification & Assessment of Inventory Risks