Warehousing and Procurement

Building Strategies to Optimise Worker Movement Paths Inside the Warehouse

Practical training in warehouse movement path optimisation, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Building Strategies to Optimise Worker Movement Paths Inside the Warehouse
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Savings claimed on warehouse movement path optimisation at signature are frequently lost during execution. Warehouse performance on path optimisation is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. Participants who influence the wider procurement and supply operations agenda without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. The difficulty is not agreeing that warehouse movement path optimisation matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. The course gives participants a defensible structure for the practice within procurement and supply operations and the judgement to adapt it. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about path optimisation under scrutiny. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in warehouse movement path optimisation that were visible long before the incident. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about path optimisation in their own setting. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this area of procurement and supply operations that participants can repeat annually.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Communicate the purpose of warehouse movement path optimisation to those who have to comply with it.

  • Integrate path optimisation with demand forecasting and production planning.

  • Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around warehouse movement path optimisation.

  • Build a supplier performance regime covering path optimisation with real consequences.

  • Assess the current state of warehouse movement path optimisation against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.

  • Write a specification for path optimisation that suppliers can price without guessing.

  • Establish traceability from supplier through storage to point of use for warehouse movement path optimisation.

Who Should Attend

  • Finance staff reviewing spend and working capital in warehouse movement path optimisation.

  • Internal auditors examining controls over path optimisation.

  • Officers preparing reports on warehouse movement path optimisation for boards or oversight committees.

  • Contract managers administering agreements covering path optimisation.

  • Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes warehouse movement path optimisation.

  • Procurement and category managers responsible for path optimisation.

Course Modules

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01

Warehouse movement path optimisation: supplier evaluation, award and contract terms

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Releasing working capital trapped in warehouse movement path optimisation

  • Define measurable service levels in the contract covering warehouse movement path optimisation.
  • Prepare the summary of path optimisation that senior management will read.
  • Agree the smallest change to warehouse movement path optimisation that would be visibly useful.
  • Review whether inventory policy on path optimisation still matches actual demand.

Session 2The single point of failure inside path optimisation

  • Identify single-source dependencies in warehouse movement path optimisation and cost the alternatives.
  • Set out the decisions in path optimisation that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Establish the boundary of warehouse movement path optimisation and record what sits outside it.
  • Agree what will be standardised in path optimisation and what will not.
02

Path optimisation: specification, requirement and demand

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The cost of path optimisation and how to present it

  • Rank the weaknesses in warehouse movement path optimisation by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Build the competence framework that supports path optimisation.
  • Map the physical flow of warehouse movement path optimisation through receiving, storage and dispatch.
  • Write the specification for path optimisation so two suppliers would price it the same way.

Session 2Writing a specification for path optimisation suppliers can price accurately

  • Agree the escalation route when supply of warehouse movement path optimisation is disrupted.
  • Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in path optimisation.
  • Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of warehouse movement path optimisation.
  • Arrange the handover of path optimisation so capability survives staff changes.
03

Path optimisation: continuity, risk and single points of failure

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Evaluating suppliers on path optimisation beyond the lowest number

  • Estimate the resource warehouse movement path optimisation requires to run as designed.
  • Set the consequence for failing service levels on path optimisation, and apply it.
  • Close out actions on warehouse movement path optimisation rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on path optimisation.

Session 2The hard cases in warehouse movement path optimisation and how to reason about them

  • Rehearse the briefing on warehouse movement path optimisation that would follow an incident.
  • Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to path optimisation.
  • Negotiate payment terms on warehouse movement path optimisation without pushing suppliers into distress.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether path optimisation is improving.
04

Path optimisation: warehouse layout, flow and handling

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Proving the savings claimed on path optimisation were real

  • Benchmark the organisation's warehouse movement path optimisation against comparable operations.
  • Validate claimed savings on path optimisation against actual invoiced spend.
  • Identify single points of dependency in warehouse movement path optimisation and reduce them.
  • Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for path optimisation.

Session 2Building lasting competence in path optimisation

  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in warehouse movement path optimisation.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on path optimisation.
  • Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in warehouse movement path optimisation.
  • Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside path optimisation and decide its fate.

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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