• • earn the principles of Warehouse and Inventory Management
  • Evaluate current procedures.
  • Examine operations and activities.
  • Analyze the key areas of operations.
  • Identify and understand key performance indicators.
  • Succeed in improving operations.
  • Improve personal productivity.
  • Make needed changes to methods to improve customer service whilst achieving reductions in inventory.
  • Eliminate wasteful costs.
  • Avoid those internal problems that limit performance.
  • Obtain added value for money.
  • Understand and implement the essential tools for managing warehouses and inventory in the supply chain.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include.

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise

Videos and General Discussions

 The fundamentals of effective warehouse management

• How does your warehouse fit into the organization’s corporate strategy?
• How does your warehouse fit into the overall supply chain of the company?
• What are the key functions & operations of a typical warehouse?
• Warehousing equipment: Ensuring the right tool for the right job

Storage equipment

• Conveyor equipment
• Forklift equipment
• Manual equipment

Effectively managing your OHS obligations in the warehouse.

• What are the health and safety responsibilities for the employer?
• How can an effective health and safety program benefit your organization?
• What can you do to ensure organizational buy in?

Designing effective warehouse layout

• What issues do you need to consider for optimal layout?
• What are potential problem areas?
• Making the trade-off – space and time issues
• Practical exercise: Designing an effective warehouse layout

Tools to optimize warehouse performance.

• Visual Performance methods
• Lean tools

Managing the flow of information and identifying key performance indicators in your warehouse

• Practical exercise: Managing the performance of your warehouse.
• What information is important to your warehouse and why?
• Developing KPIs
• What are the key issues and challenges of measuring performance?
• What are the roots of poor performance and how can you improve upon them?
• Productivity evaluation techniques
  

Inventory management

• What is inventory management?
• Managing and controlling inventory
• Identifying areas where inventory can get out of control.
• Cycle counting process
  

Managing and motivating your warehouse and staff

• Understanding motivation and its impact on your staff
• Measuring your staff satisfaction
• How can you increase the involvement of staff?