Inventory & Warehouse Management
For any manufacturing, wholesale, retail or logistics-based business, being able to effectively manage your warehousing operation is fundamentally important to your success. Our half day training workshop provides excellent insights into the fundamentals of warehouse design and layout, methods for managing inventory and measuring warehouse performance.
About our Warehouse & Inventory Management Training Workshops
In this video, Chris Baker discusses how this training workshop explained the fundamentals of warehouse layout and inventory control that help your warehouse team to maintain high productivity and minimise the costs associated with carrying inventory.
Why Inventory & Warehouse Management is Important to You
Reduced stock-outs
Running out of high-turn inventory is a big opportunity loss and can create a lot of time consuming and margin eroding recovery activity. A properly set up warehouse management system will reflect usage rates and lead times so that inventory is replenished in a timely fashion.
Reduced carrying costs
By avoiding carrying excess or obsolete inventory business can reduce costs and minimise clutter and safety hazards. Well developed systems replenish only what is required for upcoming and future orders.
Low warehouse productivity
Having a well organised and structured warehouse improves the effectiveness of day-to-day warehouse operations, such as receiving goods, picking and packing stock, despatching goods and conducting warehouse maintenance activities.
But there are things that get in the way….
Inventory and warehouse management are disciplines that require a specific knowledge base along with the right tools and methods. While these do not, in most cases, need to be particularly complex or hard to implement, the gap is usually in the training of warehouse staff. We find that many warehouse employees rely on their familiarity of the layout to remember where things are, and replenishment is all too often simply a “Go-See” approach.
How we can Help
Having completed this course, participants will understand:
How to create an effective warehouse layout with good visibility and access
How to label warehouse locations in a simple way that is compatible with most ERP and WMS systems
How to classify inventory according to usage and where to store it based on usage volumes
Options for picking stock
How to calculate minimum stock quantities (replenishment trigger points) buffer and safety stocks and replenishment quantities
Various ways to mange inventory, including go-see, kanban, WMS and Hybrid systems
The difference in stocktaking and cycle counting, and when to use them
•Inventory metrics and KPIs
So why not talk to us now so that we can design a program that helps you meet your Inventory & Warehouse goals ?
What People Are Saying
“I love the flexibility in the approach that Kallista Consulting takes to tailor a program to meet our specific business challenges. In addition, the energy and personal commitment the team takes to deliver the best-in-class learning experience”
Bobby Pavlickovski
Director Operations | Thales Australia
“Having worked with Kallista Consulting for more than 10-years now, Entegra have found Chris an excellent resource to align with for implementing process performance, systems & structure, driving a culture of continuous improvement and developing emerging leaders amongst our organisation.”
Laurie McCalman
Managing Director | Entegra Signature Structures
Why our clients love our training:
high quality training workshops designed to be practical, with learning that can be directly applied within the workplace
workshops can be tailored to your sector and specific requirements
facilitated by industry experts
quality course materials; printed in colour on high gsm paper
Kallista Consulting’s network of highly experienced industry professionals develops all of our workshops. They are experienced facilitators with engaging styles who easily command credibility with their audiences.
By incorporating engaging exercise across the duration of each workshop, participants are able to practice the techniques, enabling them to translate the training directly into their workplace to deliver practical outcomes. The materials provided to each participant are comprehensive guides in themselves and include opportunities for participants to record notes and action plans.
Every course can be delivered on-site, remotely via teleconference or through online training platforms and can be customised to provide context within your specific industry and tailored to your desired learning outcomes.
“We were introduced to Chris by a trusted colleague. Chris is a highly knowledgeable consultant who was able to execute needed change in our business at a challenging time. Besides Chris’s knowledge and experience, his greatest attribute was his ability to engage with our team at all levels. He took the time to connect with every member of our team. It was this understanding that built a trust in our team that was the driver for success. I can not recommend Chris highly enough!”
Catherine Hargreaves
General Manager | Hargreaves Joinery
Who we work with
Manufacturing
Government
Police & Defence
IT & Software
Education
Logistics
& FMCG
Utilities
& Recycling
Project Management
Want to learn more or discuss the course?
We can tailor our workshops to suit your requirements, so if you want the best possible training for your team, why not simply book a time to talk directly with us to talk about your specific training needs.
For a detailed overview and agenda of this workshop, download the Inventory & Warehouse Management Training Brochure
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