Unit 1: The Role of the Warehouse:
- Why we need a warehouse?
- What functions do they cover?
- How do they fit into the supply chain?
- The balance between sorting and storing
- 12 initial questions to ask about warehousing activity
Unit 2: Product Classification:
- Supply /demand variables
- ABC Analysis or the 80/20 rule
- Determining product handling groups
- Throughputs and product formats
Unit 3: Layout Options:
- Receiving options
- Storage options
- Picking/assembly options
- Dispatching options
- Using the floor and the height space
- Organizing for flow
Unit 4: Methods and Equipment:
- Warehouse structures
- Loading bays
- Selecting forklift trucks
- Selecting racking
- Implications for warehouse layouts
- Operational timings and planning
Unit 5: Health and Safety:
- Duty of care
- Inspections and risk assessments-task analysis
- Equipment maintenance and care
- Raising people's awareness
Unit 6: Security and Loss:
- Minimizing internal theft
- Minimizing external theft
- Preventative measures will be briefly discussed.
Unit 7: Productivity and Costs:
- 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
Unit 8: Service Levels:
- Internal and external customers
- The three key customer service measure
- Customer service sampling
- Effects of substandard service
- Minimizing errors
Unit 9: Warehouse Layout:
- Different types of layout with advantages and disadvantages
- Planning for flow in the warehouse
- Checklists to help on deciding the best option
Unit 10: Inventory and the Supply Chain:
- Inventory management definition
- Types of stock
- Demand amplifications
- Demand replenishment in networks
- Managing the flows
- Type I and II supply chains
- The Supply Chain Rules
- Inventory and statistics
- Concept of service level
Unit 11: Inventory Key Concepts:
- Key Component: Demand Analysis
- Key Component: Demand Forecasting
- Key Component: Supply Lead Time
- Key Component: Cost & Benefits
- Inventory benefits
- Inventory policies
- Inventory in organizations
Unit 12: Inventory Replenishment Methods and Systems:
- Basic mechanics of inventory systems
- The stock time curve
- Stock components
- Stock investment
- Free stock calculation
- Simple replenishment methods, for example, Min/Max
- Accurate replenishment methods, for example, Reorder Point and Reorder Level (ROP/ROL)
- Requirements planning systems, for example, Materials/Manufacturing Resource/Requirements Planning (MRP / MRPII)
Unit 13: Stock Control-Coding:
- Different coding methods
- Importance of inventory receipts
- Identifying surplus and obsolescent stock
- Checklists to help on deciding the best option
Unit 14: Stock Control-Recording:
- Separation of powers
- Legal issues
- How do we get inaccuracies?
Unit 15: Stock Control-Checking:
- Roles and responsibility
- Requirements
- Job Descriptions
- Authority levels
- Tolerances and approvals
- The stock check program
- Options for stock checking methods
- Reconciliations / discrepancies
Unit 16: Inventory Performance:
- Inventory Performance
- Assessing the stock level
- Models for implementing inventory control
- Determining stock targets
- Inventory questions
- Inventory KPI's in warehouses/stores
Unit 17: Inventory Strategies:
- Push/pull
- Quick response (QR)
- Efficient consumer response (ECR)
- Collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment (CPFR)
- Lean and agile approaches
- Quality Management
- Postponement
- Cross Docking
- Consolidation
- Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
- Consignment stocking
- Co-Managed Inventory (CMI)
- Direct product profitability (DPP)
- Economic value added (EVA)
- Collaborative supply chains
Unit 18: Inventory Improvements:
- Using the Supply Chain
- Using the Theory of Constraints
- Practical inventory improvements
- Call offs and Telemetry
- EDI and ICT
- Keys to reducing stock levels
- The 7 Rules for planning inventory
- Model for planning inventory