10 - 14 Feb 2025
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Hotel : Royale Chulan Kuala Lumpur
Cost : 5775 € Euro
Effective logistics and transport management ensures the seamless flow of materials across the supply chain. This program equips you with essential skills to optimize purchasing, enhance negotiation tactics, and improve inventory productivity. You will learn to streamline warehouse and transportation operations, using modern techniques for maximum efficiency. By mastering these areas, you can significantly boost supply chain performance.
Examine the most effective purchasing practices
Learn new trends in supplier management
Gain greater insight into the negotiation process
Study the use of negotiation techniques
Develop a strategy to better manage inventories
Examine inventory reduction techniques
Explore new methods and technologies in warehousing
Analyze the function of transportation management
Participants will learn by active participation during the program through the presentation of program material, exercises, training videos, and discussions of “real life” issues in their organizations.
The quality of operations in the logistics function has a direct impact on the operating performance of an organization. This program is focused on the most modern techniques for the improved management of the flow of materials into and through the organization. It is concerned with all the areas responsible for the logistics process including procurement, inventory management, warehousing and transportation. The seminar also covers the negotiation skills necessary to obtain your requirements in all of these areas.
Day 1: Managing The Purchasing Function
The 10 steps of purchasing
Buyer skills development
Objectives of supply chain management
Supplier location and selection
Types of contracts and purchase orders
Supplier management
Quality assurance
Remedies for non-performance
Day 2: Negotiation Skills Development
Foundations of successful negotiations
Overcoming difficulties in negotiations
The impact of ethics
Sharpening your skills
Establishing negotiating goals
Effective negotiating strategies
Effective negotiating techniques
Moving from confrontation to cooperation
Day 3: Inventory Management
Inventory management systems
Establishing inventory levels
Supplier managed inventory
Consignment inventory
Just in time inventory management
Obtaining the benefits of standardization
Utilizing ABC analysis
Inventory management effectiveness measures
Day 4: Managing Warehouse Operations
Warehouse functions
Utilizing warehouse systems
Warehouse layout
Inventory accuracy and cycle counting
Barcoding identification systems
Radiofrequency identification systems
Improving warehousing productivity
Overcoming barriers to performance
Day 5: Managing Transportation Operations
Correct application of Incoterms
Air carrier selection criteria
Ocean carrier selection criteria
Obtaining insurance coverage
Managing truck delivery operations
Utilizing modern tracking technology
Effective use of consolidation
Measuring transportation performance