Introduction
Warehouses and Inventory Management are critical for the effective management of procurement and the supply chain to enable the efficient delivery of superior customer service.
Warehouses and Inventory controls are often overlooked and are not thought to be an important activity. Therefore, incorrect levels of inventory can be held with attendant knock-on effects to costs, availability, and customer service.
The program will destroy this myth of unimportance and demonstrate just how to:
- Evaluate procedures, change and improve methods wasteful activities and excess costs.
- Discover all of the essential tools for the effective management of warehousing and inventory
- Achieving best-in-class performance is exactly what this program is about.
- Use all of the practical skills to take back to the workplace so that all those internal problems that limit performance are avoided.
- Apply the required principles and look at many practical applications in a highly interactive learning environment; delegates will have fun while learning principles and skills to ensure that they are able to change current methods and activities.
The course is split into two weeks:
MODULE I - Warehouse and Stores Management
MODULE II - Inventory Management
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone course; however, delegates will maximize their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a two-week seminar.
Course Objectives of Excellence in Warehouse and Inventory
By the end of this program you will be able to:
- Learn the principles of Warehouse and Inventory Management
- Global warehouses
- Examine operations and activities
- Inventory Demand Analysis and Forecasting
- Identify and Understand key performance indicators
- Inventory Management ABC Analysis
- Inventory Planning
- inventory replenishment methods and Managing inventory levels
- Stock control and movements
- Avoid those internal problems that limit performance
- Warehouse management functions
- Warehouse planning, space, policies, and procedures
- Understand and implement the essential tools for managing warehouses and inventory in the supply chain
Training Methodology of Excellence in Warehouse and Inventory
Warehouse and Inventory Management consists of nineteen modules containing lecture content, participative discussions, and many case studies to make the training come alive. The supportive comprehensive course manual will enable practical application and reinforcement and ensure back-at-work applications.
Organizational Impact of Excellence in Warehouse and Inventory
A legacy of increasing product availability and customer service levels is the ever-increasing requirements to:
- Examine the link of stock in the company operations and activities
- Analyze the key areas of warehouse operation
- Identify and understand key performance indicators
- Succeed in improving operation
- Organizations are much more healthy and productive when they have effective warehouse and inventory operations that provide superior customer service and product availability
Personal Impact of Excellence in Warehouse and Inventory
- See how to conduct an analysis of stock
- Gain from making productivity improvements in all operations
- Understand how to select and maintain warehouse equipment
- Conduct safe working practices and operations
- Apply a framework for continual improvement
Course Outlines of Excellence in Warehouse and Inventory
Module I
Warehouse and Stores Management
Day 1
The Role of the Warehouse
- Warehouse management functions
- What functions they cover,
- How do they fit into the supply chain
- The balance between sorting and storing
Day 2
Product Classification
- Supply /demand variables
- ABC Analysis or the 80/20 rule
- Determining product handling groups
- Throughputs and product formats
Day 3
Layout Options
- Stock control and movements
- Receiving options
- Storage options
- Picking/assembly options
- Dispatching options
- Using the floor and the height space
- Organizing for flow
Methods and Equipment
Here we specifically look at the lifting, storing, and moving equipment available for specific layout options, including:
- Warehouse structures
- Loading bays
- Selecting forklift trucks
- Selecting racking
- Implications for warehouse layouts
- Operational timings and planning
Day 4
Health and Safety
- Duty of care
- Inspections and risk assessments-task analysis
- Equipment maintenance and care
Security and Loss
- Minimizing internal theft
- Minimizing external theft
- Preventative measures will be briefly discussed.
Productivity and Costs
- Managing inventory levels
- Fixed and variable cost
- Typical costs involved
- A model for understanding the roles of productivity, utilization, and performance
- Setting productivity and cost targets
- The importance of having measurements and key indications of performance
Day 5
Service Levels
As Warehouses are a link in the total process of satisfying customers, this session will therefore look at:
- Internal and external customers
- The three key customer service measure
- Customer service sampling
- Effects of substandard service
- Minimizing errors
Warehouse Layout
- Warehouse preparation planning
- Warehouse space, policies and procedures
- Different types of layout with advantages and disadvantages
- Planning for flow in the warehouse
- Checklists to help on deciding the best option
Week II
Inventory Management
Day 6:
Inventory in the Value Chain
- The purpose of inventory in the value chain
- Classification of inventory
- Procedure for eliminating obsolete inventory
- Pareto Law in identifying product Classification
- Location of inventory
- Inventory Management ABC Analysis
- Using Economic Order Quantity on managing inventory order levels
Day 7:
Demand Planning
- Inventory Demand Analysis and Forecasting
- Basic forecasting methods
- Customer segmentation
- Hierarchy of planning
- Aggregate planning
- Maintenance & Inventory planning meeting
- Master Scheduling
Day 8:
Forecasting
- Principles of forecasting
- Effect of lead time on the forecasting process
- Quantitative forecasting
- Qualitative forecasting
- Tracking forecast accuracy
- Determining safety stock
Day 9:
Inventory Recording
- Period stock take
- Cycle counting
- Perpetual recording
- Utilizing Bar-cades to manage inventory and movements
- The use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for recording inventory movement
- Inventory accounting
Day 10:
Performance Measurement
- Stock turnover rate
- Customer service
- Cost of operations
- Measuring the effectiveness of your system
- How to use the measurements
- Class exercise on selective inventory management
About Cairo
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Things to do and places to visit in Cairo
The multi-layered capital of Egypt offers its visitors lively markets, authentic restaurants, and a multitude of ancient sights and archeological findings. Gaze in wonder at the Pyramids, take an awe-inspiring look at Tutankhamen's burial mask, shop for handmade souvenirs in the bazaars or hop on a sunset cruise down the Nile and embrace the sensory overload that is Cairo.
Take a vacation in Cairo and you can:
- Visit the Great Sphinx of Giza, one of Ancient Egypt's great mysteries.
- Explore the ramparts of the Salah El-Din Citadel.
- Join locals drinking coffee at Fishawi Café, one of Cairo's first cafes and most important meeting spots.
- Marvel at the seemingly endless historical artifacts on display at the Egyptian Museum.
- Learn about the Ummayad, Ottoman, and Ayyubbid dynasties and more at the Museum of Islamic Art.
- Haggle for souvenirs and gifts at the Khan el-Khalili souk.
- See one of the world's oldest universities at the Al-Azhar Mosque, one of the city's original mosques.
- Take a tour of the showstopping Giza pyramids.
- Savor local cuisine such as mezze in the old city.
- Wander through the labyrinth-like streets of Coptic Cairo, the city's ancient quarter, and spot Roman relics.