MEW/Effective Warehouse Management-Design, Techniques and Operations (14TH – 16TH MAY: 25th –27th August 2025)
About the Program
An effective warehouse management is a critical function in delivering superior customer satisfaction and return on investment for an organization in a competitive global and lean supply chain regime. Managing the warehouse properly can provide substantial benefits to the organization.
This three-day program examines in depth the principles of good stock management, how to maintain the correct stock levels without affecting the efficiency within the organization while contributing significantly towards the minimization of a company’s cash flow problems and improved profitability.
The program will look at the design,tools and techniques to effectively manage the warehouse effectively.
The course has been structured to develop existing skills of participants so that they can analyse and then improve their warehouse operations.
Course Objectives
- To enable participants appreciate the impact of good stock management on the profitability of an organization.
- Leveraging information technology to improve warehouse management
- To enable participants run warehouse operations more productively
Course Benefits
At the end of the program, participants would gain a greater awareness of the issues and key drivers of warehouse operations.
Course Content
- Principles of warehousing and inventory management
- The role of the warehouse
- Stores layout and facilities
- Modern storage and warehousing practices
- Uses and abuses of inventory
- Importance of inventory
- Matching demand and supply
- Minimizing risks and costs
- Financial Effects of Inventory
- Profit, loss and balance sheet effects
- Physical costs
- Material Identification Systems
- Codification
- Standardization
- Variety Reduction
- Physical stock-taking and stock verification
- Inventory Control, Concepts and Techniques
- ABC, HML, XYZ FSN etc Analysis
- Movement Analysis
- Criticality Analysis
- Zero Inventory and Just-In-time Inventory Systems
- Push/Pull Inventory
- Vendor Managed Inventory
- Warehousing Safety
- Sources of warehouse hazards
- Good practice, layout and safety
- Equipment and safety
- Developing a safety attitude
- Records Management in the Warehouse
- Records filing
- Records retrieval and control
- Records safety and security
- Automated Stock Control
- Criteria for automation
- Warehouse Best Practices and Benchmarking
Duration: Three (3) days
Fee: Two Thousand,Eight Hundred and Fifty Ghana Cedis (GH¢2,850.00) per participant
Venue : Dr. Frempong Conference Room,STEPRI, Accra
Who Should Attend
Warehouse, Stores and Material Managers and Supervisors, Production and Manufacturing Professionals,Distribution Professionals, Inventory, Logistics and Procurement Managers and any Senior/Middle or Functional Manager who wants to understand warehousing and inventory management.