Perform Stock Control and Housekeeping Operations

Course details

This course aims to provide people currently working in or wishing to enter the logistics environment with the skills and knowledge required to perform their jobs effectively and in a setting within the manufacturing sectors.

This course is developed to enable an individual to acquire the skills and knowledge in performing stock control and housekeeping operations. It includes applying stock taking procedures, controlling non-conforming products and performing housekeeping.

This course is specially developed by Singapore Workforce Development Agency to facilitate approved organisations under the WSQ scheme in training and preparing their staff to achieve the Statement of Attainment (SOA) for the competency unit “Perform Stock Control and Housekeeping Operations.”

COURSE OBJECTIVES

At the end of the training programme, the participant will be able to:

1. Apply stock taking procedures
2. Control non-conforming products
3. Perform housekeeping

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Apply Stock taking procedure

• Purpose of stock take plan and its respective details
• Activities when preparing stock take area
• Organisational stock take procedure
• Importance of cut-off time when performing stock take
• Definitions of cyclical count, spot checking and annual stock taking
• Types of stock take documentation
• Types of stock discrepancies
• Organisational safety and health requirements

2. Control non-conforming products

• Types of non-conforming products
• Methods to segregate non-conforming products
• Organisational procedures to label non-conforming products
• Organisational procedures to record and report non-conforming products
• Implications of not following procedures relating to non-conforming products

3. Perform Housekeeping

• Purpose of warehouse layout plan
• Concept of 5S as a guideline
• Stock arrangement methods
• Cleaning and maintenance techniques
• Workplace safety and health practices when performing housekeeping

4. Review and Skills Practice