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Training content
This Inventory Planning and Control course will cover:
Fundamentals of Inventory Management
- Inventory management essentials
- Profit through inventory management
- Inventory management and customer service
- Analysing the requirements
- Setting inventory management parameters
Replenishment Policies and Inventory Planning
- Replenishment or Reordering
- Continuous and periodic reviews
- Order quantity and Order up-to level
- Inventory planning
- Inventory optimisation
Stock Identification and Recording Procedures
- Receipts and issues of stock
- Order quantities and rules
- Stocktaking and different types of stockholding
- Safety stock
- Obsolescence and write-offs - methods and procedures for disposal of surplus and unserviceable items
Inventory Control
- Cost effectivity of stock holding
- Managing and controlling stock
- Just In Time management
- Practical methods of reducing stockholding
- Setting and maintaining the right stock levels
Strategic Management of Inventory and all types of Stock
- Inventory classification and audits - ABC Analysis or the 80/20 rule
- Implementing leading edge strategies – MRP, JIT, Kaizen, and Kanban
- Effective forecasting and peak demand planning
- Inventory cost reduction techniques
- Effectively managing inventory risk
Stock Identification and Recording Procedures
- The role of the warehouse in the modern supply chain
- The organisational structure of a warehouse
- Factors determining the location and number of warehouses
- Warehouse design
- Different types of warehousing
Management strategies involved in creating an efficient warehouse
- Implementing a dynamic warehouse management system
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- On Time Complete and On Time Delivery methods
- Floor loads and floors stocks
- Order fulfilment and fill rates
Managing People, Resources, Performance, Health and Safety
- The role of the warehouse manager
- People management
- Resource planning
- Performance management
- Health and safety
Inventory Improvements and the Supply Chain
- The supply chain and the theory of constraints
- Supply chain process mapping
- Saw tooth curve
- Using the Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) graph to find improvements
- Inventory in the distribution network
Costs
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London Corporate Training have been established in the education, consulting and training industries for two decades. They work as a training team from their head office in London and aim to ensure all of their course participants receive the highest...
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