COURSE COVERAGE

Course Methodology
This course leverages a variety of learning tools, including exercises, case studies, financial problems, warehouse design and videos.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

·         Describe the strategic role of warehouses in the supply chain

·         Profile and optimize warehousing activities

·         Identify different warehousing configurations and value adding activities

·         Develop key performance indicators and benchmark warehouse performance

·         Outline the cost and revenue aspects of warehousing

·         Recognize sustainable warehousing techniques and practices

Target Audience

Warehousing and supply chain professionals, in particular those at operational, supervisory and management level. The course is ideal for those seeking to complement their warehousing experience with the latest theoretical knowledge in preparation for assuming higher positions in their respective organizations.

Target Competencies

·         Warehouse management

·         Analytical thinking

·         Collaborative operations

·         Performance management

·         Financial analysis

·         Reverse logistics

·         Sustainable operations

Course Outline

·         The strategic role of warehousing

·         Supply chain overview

·         The role of warehouses

·         Types of warehouses

·         Private warehousing

·         Public warehousing

·         Contract warehousing

·         Fundamentals of warehouse operations

·         Warehouse organizations and job descriptions

·         Warehouse activity profiling

·         Customer order profiling

·         Item activity profiling

·         Inventory profiling

·         Activity relationship profiling

·         Warehousing equipment and tools

·         Forklifts

·         Cranes

·         Conveyors

·         Tow lines

·         Carousels

·         Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)

·         Bar coding

·         Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

·         Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

·         Magnetic stripes

·         Bio metrics

·         Warehouse configuration and value adding activities

·         Warehousing echelons

·         Warehouse design

·         Value adding activities

·         Stockpiling, spot stocking and assortments

·         Cross docking, break bulking and consolidation

·         Mixing

·         Postponement and assembly-to-order

·         Reverse logistics

·         Managing warehouse performance

·         Warehousing KPIs

·         Benchmarking warehousing operations

·         Warehouse performance gap identification

·         Continuous improvement in operations

·         Warehouse cost calculations

·         Capital costs

·         Operating costs

·         Handling and storage costs

·         Investment analysis

·         Sustainable warehousing operations

·         Lean warehousing

·         Sustainability competencies

·         The triple bottom line

·         Designing-for-the-supply chain

·         Designing-for-the-environment

Duration:  3 days

Class Session : 10:00am – 4:00pm each day including Breakfast and Lunch time

Customize Your Training

This training is currently available as residential/in-house option. If you prefer us to customize or have this training in-house at your location, kindly send your request via e-mail to:training@mctimothyassociates.com

Please Note

McTimothy Associates Reserves the right to postpone or cancel a course due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. In such cases delegate(s) will be registered for the next run of the Course.