This BTS training course discusses how costs can be reduced; performance can be improved as well as an increase in customer satisfaction

This Logistics & Transport Management training course aims to enable participants to:

• Understand how the supply and demand chains work
• 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
• Examine inventory reduction techniques
• Explore new methods and technologies in warehousing
• Analyze the function of transportation management

• Business professionals who work in purchasing, procurement, stock control, warehousing and materials management would find this training session extremely beneficial, enabling them to bring improvements to their area of the business.

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

Day 1: Understanding the Supply and Demand Chains

• How organisation supply and demand chains work
• Objectives of supply chain management
• The key steps in purchasing
• Supplier location and selection
• Types of contracts and purchase orders
• Supplier management
• Quality assurance
• Remedies for non-performance of suppliers

Day 2: 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 3: Negotiation Skills Development

• Communication and foundations of successful negotiations
• Overcoming difficulties in negotiations
• The impact of ethics
• Establishing negotiating goals
• Effective negotiating strategies
• Effective negotiating techniques
• Negotiation tactics

Day 4: Managing Warehouse Operations

• Warehouse functions
• Utilizing warehouse systems
• Warehouse layout
• Inventory accuracy and cycle counting
• Bar coding identification systems
• Radio frequency 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

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.