Strategic Warehousing Course

Efficient warehouse operations do the following:

• Provide timely customer service
• Keep track of items so that they can be found easily and correctly.
• Minimise the behavior’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 behavior 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 and 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 and Environment (HSE)
  • Identification and Assessment of Inventory Risks.