Stores Operations & Stock Records.

Course details

Course Ojectives 

Stores and Warehouse Organisation: 

Design and layout of the stores 

•  Modes of storage 
•  Stock rotation 
•  Materials and materials handling 
•  Stores and warehouse technology 
•  Bar coding in the stores.

Stock Records and Cycle Counting: 

The requirment for accuracy - stock management, planning, financial control and legal

•  Tolerances in measurement 
•  The system documenation and system transactions 
•  Cycle counting and PI 
•  ABC (Pareto) analysis 
•  Choosing the cycles 
•  Choosing items to count. 

Stores and Warehouse Operation: 

Responsibility for incoming goods

•  Issue and despatch procedures 
•  Order picking (one-step) 
•  Order picking (two-step)
•  Random v. fixed locations
•  Bar coding in the stores 
•  Transaction trails 
•  Reconciling a stock count and a record. 

Duties and Responsibilities: 

Management and staff responsibilities

•  Recruitment and personnel 
•  FIRE!
•  Security 
•  Health and safety
•  Training and the cause of error 
•  The stores manual 
•  Measures of performance and benchmarking.