Manage Logistics and Supply chain with our online course

Understanding how the supply of goods, resources and services within a business can enhance your end product, increase productivity and profitability. This course can help enhance your knowledge of logistics and supply chain management.

When your business logistics and supply chanin is managed effectively, your business operations and production will flow more smoothly. This is an essential business skill set for anyone in who manages or runs a business.

Lesson 1:  Nature and Scope of Logistics Management
Introduction to logistics
Inbound logistics
Outbound logistics
Logistics or supply chain management
Goals and objectives of logistics
Increased efficiency
Responding efficiency
Reducing unexpected events
Keeping inventory to a minimum
Just-in-time inventory management
Transport cost reduction
Improving quality
Supply chain channels
Direct & indirect channels
Types of distribution channel
Choosing the best distribution channel?
Nature of the product
Value of product
Target market
Legal requirements
Competitor activities
How e-commerce has altered supply chain management, logistics & business
Changes globally

Lesson 2: Logistics – Strategies and Operations
Logistics
Strategies and operations
Decisions within logistics
Customer service
Logistics network design
Vertical integration vs outsourcing
Vertical integration
Outsourcing
Developing a logistics strategy
Components of logistics strategy
Designing a logistics strategy
Implementing logistic strategies in strategic planning
Developing a strategic plan
Identifying a key strategic focus
Using kaizen as a business strategy

Lesson 3: Procurement
The procurement cycle
A focus on tendering
Procurement – raw materials
Forecasting
Monitoring supplier performance
What needs to be monitored?
Evaluate supplier performance
Challenges around procurement
Risk mitigation
Reputation
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Sustainability
What is a green strategy?
What do companies need to consider?

Lesson 4: Warehousing and Storage
What is a warehouse?
The purpose of a warehouse
Activities required in warehouses
Advantages of warehousing
Types of warehouses
Private
Public warehouses
Bonded storage
Co-operative warehouses
Distribution warehouse
A focus on drop shipping & warehousing
Warehousing management systems
How does a WMS work?
Case study: amazon
Technology affecting warehousing
Big data
Robotics and autonomous machines
Blockchain, tech networks and the cloud
Customer service in warehousing
Warehouse regulation

Lesson 5: Materials
Introduction to materials in logistics
Types of materials
Material handling
Designing a material handling system
Material handling equipment
Bulk material handling
Engineered systems
Industrial trucks
Storage and handling equipment
Packaging
Containers
Pallets
Materials used for shipping
Ethical issues and sustainability
Ethical sourcing of materials
Reusing materials
Ethical packaging

Lesson 6: Transport and delivery
Transportation management
Modes of transport
Road transportation – truck freight
Marine transportation – ship
Case study: the Suez Canal obstruction
Rail transportation – train
Air transportation – plane
Intermodal transport
Delivery scheduling
The importance of a good schedule

Lesson 7: Inventory management
Types of inventories
How inventory is planned & controlled
Planning approaches
Challenges with inventory planning
Inaccurate or incomplete data
Multiple locations
Insufficient order management
Human error
Software & systems
Automated store ordering
Robotic stock handling
Blockchain
Supply and demand
Sensitivity analysis
Review systems
Vendor managed inventory
Case study: toilet paper during covid
Case study: impact of semiconductor shortage on car manufacturing

Lesson 8: Risk management – health & safety issues, legislation
Health & safety: warehousing
Slips, trips, and falls
Vehicles in and around the warehouse
Dangerous goods
Employee stress & management
The positive side of stress
The negative side of stress
Chain of responsibility
Risks in logistics
What is risk?
How to mitigate risk
Evaluating risks
Time frames
Legalities
Strategies
How to react: processes to mitigate risk
Tools

Lesson 9: Supply chain dynamics
Predicting change – is it possible?
Types of change in a business
Identifying problems
Planning for change
Organisational change management
Choosing the right behaviour change intervention
Step 1 involves identifying the behaviour
Step 2 involves identifying the most valuable intervention option(s)
Step 3 involves identifying and conducting policy change
Behaviour change techniques
Reverse logistics
Returns
Reselling
Repairs
Recycling
Replacement
Obsolescence
Traceability
Mapping
Transparency
Building a better supply chain
Future technology
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Drone technology
Robotics
Advances in ecommerce
Drop shipping
Outsourcing
Track and trace

Lesson 10: Problem based learning (PBL) project
Logistics plan for organic energy
Your logistics plan
Presentation component