Certified Warehouse Professional

Course Overview

Designed for handling multi-million-dollar inventories, this program explores innovative methods to store and protect high value inventories, and efficient modern warehouse characteristics. Learn keys to proper warehousing management, explore record accuracy techniques, and master successful cycle counting. This training course also offers a scientific approach to warehouse auditing.

Don’t miss this opportunity to become a Certified Warehouse Professional, enhance your skills to confidently manage high-value inventories, enroll now!

Who Should Attend

  • Production and inventory management
  • Operations
  • Supply chain management
  • Procurement
  • Materials management
  • Purchasing
  • Finance and cost accounting
  • Manufacturing information systems

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the challenges, objectives and functions of warehousing
  • Perform ABC inventory classification and cycle counting and calculate record accuracy and discrepancies
  • Describe the different types of storage and material handling systems
  • Improve supervisory skills and deal more effectively with warehouse staff issues
  • Develop better skills for housekeeping and safety within the warehouse
  • Measure warehouse productivity using the right Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and conduct a scientific audit of the warehouse

Course Content

Introduction to warehousing management

  • Objectives of warehousing
  • The modern warehouse
  • The warehousing cycle
  • Problems and challenges in warehousing
  • Warehousing and inventory costs
  • Customer service in warehousing

Inventory classification and record accuracy

  • Types of inventory
  • The ABC classification
  • Uses of the ABC classification
  • Inventory record accuracy
  • Reasons for poor accuracy
  • Periodic and cycle counting
  • Systems and methodology of counting
  • Knowing what is inside the warehouse
  • Knowing how much is inside the warehouse

Storage and material handling systems

  • Layout of the warehouse
  • Size and shape of the warehouse
  • Storage utilization and organization
  • Types of storage systems
  • Fixed versus random location
  • Material handling equipment
  • Material handling equipment checklist
  • Improving the receiving/issuing material operations

Dealing with staff related warehousing issues

  • Key roles of the warehouse manager
  • Staff management issues
  • Corrective guidance techniques
  • Qualities of a good warehouse employee
  • Motivation of warehouse employees

Safety in the warehouse

  • Good housekeeping inside the warehouse
  • Identifying safety hazards
  • Unsafe acts and conditions
  • Causes of damage
  • Planning for safety

Productivity and audit of a warehouse

  • Definition of productivity
  • Causes of lost time
  • Warehousing key performance indicators
  • Objectives of the warehouse audit
  • Components of the audit
  • Steps to follow before, during and after the audit

Table of Contents

Course Code DU0905 Category
Location: Dubai, UAE
Duration: 5 Days
Language: English
Cost: 15,770 SAR
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