Warehousing and Procurement

Building Selection Criteria for Strategic Warehouse Locations

A practical programme in warehouse location selection for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Building Selection Criteria for Strategic Warehouse Locations
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Most procurement disputes about warehouse location selection originate in a specification written too quickly. Warehouse performance on this part of procurement and supply operations is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. It treats the procurement and supply operations discipline as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. The programme suits teams tackling warehouse location selection together as readily as individuals attending alone. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in this aspect of procurement and supply operations before they become incidents. A common pattern is strong design of the procurement and supply operations capability paired with weak follow-through. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better warehouse location selection is rarely technical. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a sourcing procedure for this strand of procurement and supply operations as they go. The programme closes with an action plan for this area of procurement and supply operations that each participant writes for their own organisation.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Compare the organisation's handling of warehouse location selection with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.

  • Build a concise sourcing procedure for warehouse location selection that colleagues can follow without further explanation.

  • Evaluate suppliers for warehouse location selection on total cost of ownership, not unit price.

  • Apply sustainability and ethical sourcing criteria to warehouse location selection.

  • Adapt recognised practice on warehouse location selection to local constraints without hollowing it out.

  • Establish traceability from supplier through storage to point of use for warehouse location selection.

  • Design contract terms for warehouse location selection that make performance measurable and enforceable.

Who Should Attend

  • Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes warehouse location selection.

  • Inventory controllers managing stock within warehouse location selection.

  • Supply chain planners forecasting demand for warehouse location selection.

  • Logistics and distribution staff moving material in warehouse location selection.

  • Contract managers administering agreements covering warehouse location selection.

  • Internal auditors reviewing how warehouse location selection is designed and operated.

Course Modules

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01

Warehouse location selection: continuity, risk and single points of failure

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Documentation and customs treatment for warehouse location selection

  • Identify single-source dependencies in warehouse location selection and cost the alternatives.
  • Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside warehouse location selection and decide its fate.
  • Define measurable service levels in the contract covering warehouse location selection.
  • Verify six months later that changes to warehouse location selection have held.

Session 2Proving the savings claimed on warehouse location selection were real

  • Map the physical flow of warehouse location selection through receiving, storage and dispatch.
  • Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for warehouse location selection.
  • Confirm that those complying with warehouse location selection understand why it exists.
  • Confirm that reporting on warehouse location selection reaches the people who can act.
02

Warehouse location selection: measurement, savings validation and reporting

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Closing out warehouse location selection and capturing what was learned

  • Agree the smallest change to warehouse location selection that would be visibly useful.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates warehouse location selection is under control.
  • Remove steps in warehouse location selection that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Set the review interval for warehouse location selection and who attends.

Session 2Releasing working capital trapped in warehouse location selection

  • Establish the boundary of warehouse location selection and record what sits outside it.
  • Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in warehouse location selection.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around warehouse location selection are understood.
  • Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in warehouse location selection.
03

Warehouse location selection: supplier performance and relationship management

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building lasting competence in warehouse location selection

  • Agree the indicators that will show whether warehouse location selection is improving.
  • Validate claimed savings on warehouse location selection against actual invoiced spend.
  • Record what was learned when warehouse location selection did not go as planned.
  • Agree the escalation route when supply of warehouse location selection is disrupted.

Session 2Making warehouse location selection work when resources are constrained

  • Segment spend on warehouse location selection by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
  • Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on warehouse location selection.
  • Define acceptance criteria for warehouse location selection in advance.
  • Define the trigger that would require warehouse location selection to be redesigned.
04

Warehouse location selection: inventory policy and working capital

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Writing a specification for warehouse location selection suppliers can price accurately

  • Set out how exceptions to warehouse location selection are requested and approved.
  • Set the consequence for failing service levels on warehouse location selection, and apply it.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of warehouse location selection before proposing changes.
  • Write the specification for warehouse location selection so two suppliers would price it the same way.

Session 2Making supplier performance on warehouse location selection mean something

  • Evaluate warehouse location selection on total cost of ownership across the full life.
  • Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in warehouse location selection.
  • Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to warehouse location selection.
  • Map the handovers in warehouse location selection between functions and secure them.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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