| Duration |
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2 Days |
| Course Fees |
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These courses are delivered in house only. Prices are available on request |
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Courses
can also be provided very cost effectively in house |
| Course Dates |
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| Course Objectives |
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- To
provide a thorough grounding in the fundamentals
of good stores best practice in a jargon
free and readily understandable format
- Recognise the opportunities presented by improved
management and control of the stores
- Identify key areas for efficiency enhancement
e.g. lower stock levels, fewer stock-outs, increased
stockturn, stores layout
- Be more customer focused and service orientated
- Improve results by managing both themselves
and their staff better
- Introduce improvements on a continuous basis
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| Who will benefit? |
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Those
responsible for stores operations in the industrial/manufacturing
or service to manufacturing sector either with
experience or newly appointed. |
| Course Content |
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The place and role of the stores/warehouse
in the organisation and its supply chain
- Defining
the stores ‘mission’
- Profitability and the stores
- Audit of where we are now in terms of our
control of the stores operation
- Use of specially designed audit forms will:
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- Expose areas of weakness
- Identify areas of opportunity
- Communications, information and effectiveness
in the stores
- Giving customers – internal
and external – excellent
service
- Undertaking internal customer surveys
Control
of stock
- Uses for stock turn
- Implications for working capital and cash
flow
- Improving the service with less stock
Managing
the stores
- Cutting administration costs
- Efficient stores layout
- Managing time for greater
effectiveness
- Usage value classification techniques
- ‘Smarter not harder’ working practices
- Creativity and how to use it for continuous
improvement
- Measuring to manage techniques
- Problem solving techniques
Staff supervision/management
- Delegation
- Motivation
- Teamwork
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