Course Title Effective Stores Management
Duration   2 Days
Fees £545 + VAT
  Courses can also be provided very cost effectively in house
Course Objectives
  • 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

 

Who will benefit? Those responsible for stores operations in the industrial/manufacturing or service to manufacturing sector either with experience or newly appointed.
Course Content 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: -
    • 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