Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around warehouse and logistics excellence.
Operational Excellence in Warehouse and Logistics Management
An applied course in warehouse and logistics excellence built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Warehouse performance on warehouse and logistics excellence is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. Single sourcing on logistics excellence looks efficient until the day it is not. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of this part of procurement and supply operations to standardise and which to leave flexible. The course sets out a working method for warehouse and logistics excellence that participants can apply the week they return. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of the practice within procurement and supply operations and prepares them for it. The professional literature on logistics excellence converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for warehouse and logistics excellence. Most organisations already have a policy on logistics excellence; far fewer can show it working. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this part of procurement and supply operations that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Negotiate payment terms on logistics excellence that improve cash without damaging supply.
Write a specification for warehouse and logistics excellence that suppliers can price without guessing.
Draw practical lessons from failures in logistics excellence without assigning blame that suppresses reporting.
Assign clear ownership for each element of warehouse and logistics excellence across the functions involved.
Evaluate suppliers for logistics excellence on total cost of ownership, not unit price.
Integrate warehouse and logistics excellence with demand forecasting and production planning.
Who Should Attend
Contract managers administering agreements covering warehouse and logistics excellence.
Warehouse and stores managers operating logistics excellence.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by warehouse and logistics excellence.
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of logistics excellence directly.
Supplier relationship managers developing partners in warehouse and logistics excellence.
Finance staff reviewing spend and working capital in logistics excellence.
Course Modules
Warehouse and logistics excellence: supplier evaluation, award and contract terms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Laying out the warehouse around how warehouse and logistics excellence actually moves
- Build the competence framework that supports warehouse and logistics excellence.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around logistics excellence are understood.
- Compare the cost of warehouse and logistics excellence with the cost of its absence.
- Define the trigger that would require logistics excellence to be redesigned.
Session 2The single point of failure inside logistics excellence
- Define acceptance criteria for warehouse and logistics excellence in advance.
- Agree the escalation route when supply of logistics excellence is disrupted.
- Verify six months later that changes to warehouse and logistics excellence have held.
- Record what was learned when logistics excellence did not go as planned.
Logistics excellence: continuity, risk and single points of failure
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for logistics excellence, and to whom
- Map the physical flow of warehouse and logistics excellence through receiving, storage and dispatch.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on logistics excellence.
- Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of warehouse and logistics excellence.
- Anticipate the objections logistics excellence will raise and prepare the answers.
Session 2Making supplier performance on logistics excellence mean something
- Set escalation thresholds for warehouse and logistics excellence that work out of hours.
- Validate claimed savings on logistics excellence against actual invoiced spend.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to warehouse and logistics excellence.
- Check that logistics excellence still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Logistics excellence: sourcing strategy and market approach
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The approval control on logistics excellence that prevents fraud
- Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in warehouse and logistics excellence.
- Close out actions on logistics excellence rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Build the internal briefing that explains warehouse and logistics excellence to those affected.
- Evaluate logistics excellence on total cost of ownership across the full life.
Session 2Choosing the right sourcing approach for warehouse and logistics excellence
- Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in warehouse and logistics excellence.
- Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on logistics excellence.
- Set the consequence for failing service levels on warehouse and logistics excellence, and apply it.
- Write the specification for logistics excellence so two suppliers would price it the same way.
Logistics excellence: warehouse layout, flow and handling
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building the method for logistics excellence step by step
- Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside warehouse and logistics excellence and decide its fate.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether logistics excellence is improving.
- Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in warehouse and logistics excellence.
- Define measurable service levels in the contract covering logistics excellence.
Session 2Moving logistics excellence from approval to execution
- Map the handovers in warehouse and logistics excellence between functions and secure them.
- Set the stock count cycle for logistics excellence and act on discrepancies.
- Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for warehouse and logistics excellence.
- Identify single-source dependencies in logistics excellence and cost the alternatives.
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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