Warehouse Management and Storekeeping Courses in Abu Dhabi

Diploma on Warehouse Management & Stock
(Inventory) Control

This is a program to train and produce effective professional stores and inventory personnel and managers.

An enterprise’s success can be greatly affected by the efficiency of its stores operations; efficient stores management can save money, help retain customers and maintain continuous operations; but stores mismanagement can lose an enterprise money, customers and production. A stores manager must be able to manage stores, stockyards, inventory; and plan, organise, coordinate work, train, supervise and control stores personnel; this Programs teaches how that is done, and how to do that effectively and professionally.

Major Topics Covered in this Diploma Program include:

• The stores function in an enterprise and its main activities.
• The need for efficient management of stores.
• The principles of management: recruiting, training, controlling, motivating stores personnel.
• Attributes and abilities looked for in stores/inventory staff.
• Health and safety, and accident prevention in stores, stockyards and warehouses.
• Staff and managerial responsibilities for safety; protective clothing, safety equipment.
• Storehouse buildings: factors regarding their location, design and layout.
• Considerations regarding floors, entrances and exits, and sub-stores.
• Planning in stores and stockyards, heating, ensuring efficiency of movement, stores maintenance.
• Stockyards: materials, location, design, layout, throughflow, protection of stored items.
• Manual and powered stores equipment, materials handling, training of staff.
• Storage, measuring and general stores equipment.
• Facilitating orders and movement of stocks out of the stores.
• Order picking, packaging, avoiding damages, the use of pallets and racks.
• Protection of stock against loss and damage, causes of spoilage, how to overcome these problems.
• Storehouse and stockyard security, control over keys, prevention of theft and pilfering.
• Fire prevention, fire drills and fire-fighting equipment.
• Ordering stock items, documentation and planning.
• Stock items, inventory identification, codes, creating and understanding coding systems.
• Stock records: their contents and uses, importance of accuracy.
• Statistics and reports; the role and management of the stores office.
• Procedures for stock receipts and issues, coordination with other departments; packing, dispatch.
• Setting stock levels, reorder levels, factors in levels set; costs, ABC, EOQ, forecasting.
• Stocktaking: reasons and purposes, procedures, spot checks, stock valuation, inspections.
• Obsolete and obsolescent stock, disposal of unwanted goods.
• Data and documentation, data safety, computer systems and backups.

And much more…..