Supply chain management: inventory management and control

Learn how inventory management is critical to your business and how to manage it to maximize your profit.

good inventory management is essential to all business operations; having the right stock available whilst minimizing costs and risk is the fundamental factor that impact your business’s success. Getting a strong control and continuously improving your business operations is essential to remain competitive, improving profitability, customer experience and satisfaction, reducing costs, and improving delivery.
With a solid grasp of inventory, operations manager, can confidently competent, improve and develop his business, the processes, systems, and teams that make it successful.

What you’ll learn

  •  Understand the importance of inventory & the role it plays in the profitability of the business..
  •  Examine the most appropriate method for managing an item•.
  •  Understand the value chain in inventory management..
  •  Apply best methods to optimize the investment in inventory..
  •  Examine the appropriate inventory management technique for each type of item..
  •  Understand the variety of techniques, tools, and technologies that a business uses to manage and control their inventory..
  •  learn hands-on tools and skills to discover and solve inventory problems by data analytics..
  •  Learn Warehousing concepts, Equipment and Processes..
  •  Understand the inventory management software systems..

Course Content

  • what is inventory management –> 15 lectures • 42min.
  • Types of inventory. –> 2 lectures • 6min.
  • Inventory forecasting. –> 3 lectures • 13min.
  • Purchasing inventory. –> 4 lectures • 16min.
  • Inventory storage. –> 3 lectures • 16min.
  • Inventory analysis. –> 12 lectures • 1hr 22min.
  • Inventory management techniques. –> 11 lectures • 16min.
  • Inventory accounting. –> 2 lectures • 12min.
  • Inventory tracking. –> 3 lectures • 18min.
  • Inventory manager. –> 1 lecture • 3min.

Supply chain management: inventory management and control

Requirements

good inventory management is essential to all business operations; having the right stock available whilst minimizing costs and risk is the fundamental factor that impact your business’s success. Getting a strong control and continuously improving your business operations is essential to remain competitive, improving profitability, customer experience and satisfaction, reducing costs, and improving delivery.
With a solid grasp of inventory, operations manager, can confidently competent, improve and develop his business, the processes, systems, and teams that make it successful.

This course educates and empowers you to achieve a real difference. Bring your career, and your business performance, to the highest levels.

This course is designed for aspiring operations manager, the ambitious procurement professionals, the striving logistics supervisors, production planners and the practical business optimization analysts.

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

· Know the principles and purpose on inventory management and control.

· Understand the costs associated with inventory management.

· Be knowledgeable in Inventory verification and valuation methods.

· Understand the different approaches for effective management of dependent demand and independent demand inventories and when to apply them.

· Know the fundamentals of warehousing and stock handling.

· Understand the organizational structure and functional responsibilities in inventory and warehousing.

· Know how to measure and improve inventory management performance.

· Understand the different types of inventories and importance of inventory to organizations.

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