• Optimize your logistics network

• Identify influencing factors regarding warehouse size and location

• Reduce shipping costs

• Maximize warehouse usage

• Reduce inventory costs

• Enhance the performance of warehouse management

Warehouse management costs typically represent 4.15 % of company revenue. Hence, it is important to establish speedy and efficient management of operations both directly and indirectly related to warehousing.

• Review and optimize warehousing and logistics management operations

• Identify optimal size and location of warehouses to fulfill business needs and reduce shipping costs

• Improve inventory management with the aim to reduce costs

• Enhance overall warehouse productivity

1. Introduction to warehouse management



2. Components of logistics management



3. Roles and responsibilities attributed to logistics



4. Expectations of each person involved in the supply chain
   
   
5. Centralize or decentralize – what is the preferred option ?



6. Identification of factors influencing warehouse location



7. Incoterms and their application



8. Establishing distribution costs from a specific warehouse location



9. Determining optimal delivery radius from a specific warehouse location



10. How public warehouses and shipping brokers operate
    
    
11. Various production planning and distribution strategies :
    
    • Managing capacity
    • Corporate Guidelines for production and distribution
    • Planning material requirements or MRP
    • Prioritizing
    
    
12. Inventory Management :
    
    • Steps in sound inventory control
    • Overview of total costs involved
    • Calculations for bulk buying and how to best take advantage of it
    • Calculation of emergency stocks
    • Using equivalent substitutes due to buying restrictions
    • Manual stock-take – on a cycle or permanent basis ?
    
    
13. Warehouse Layout :
    
    • Space calculations and selective positioning
    • Addressing items
    • Warehousing systems (storage)
    • Handling items
    • Factors to consider in acquisition of storage and handling equipment
    • Buy or rent? The pros and cons of both choices
    • Wrapping and packaging
      
      
14. Fundamental Warehouse Operations
    
    • How to handle receiving ?
    • Processing returns
    • The basic principles of picking
    • Assessing productivity of warehouse operations :
      • Calculation of weighted performance index
    • Calculation of time allotted per task
    • Calculation of performance indices (3) for inventory management ( rotation, satisfying demand, quantity of obsolete stock )
      
      
15. Risks to be expected within logistics management