Good logistics planning is invisible when it works — products simply arrive where and when they should. It only becomes visible when it fails. This Arab British Fellowship Training Academy course focuses on building that invisible reliability, teaching participants to design and manage an integrated system that controls the flow and storage of materials, parts and finished products from supply source to end consumer.

Beyond warehousing and control, this course looks at logistics through a strategic lens: monitoring shifting local and global markets, building the human capabilities a logistics team needs, and orienting every process toward the customer the organisation ultimately serves.

Course Objectives

• Design and manage an integrated system that controls the flow and storage of materials and products.
• Apply warehouse management practices, from location selection to inventory control.
• Approach logistics from a control and customer-orientation perspective.
• Build the human capabilities and strategic planning a logistics team needs to keep pace with change.

Target Audience

• Purchasing, supply chain and tender managers.
• Warehouse managers.
• Production and packaging managers.
• Anyone connected to or interested in logistics work.

Module 1: The Strategic Role of Logistics Management

• The administrative and applied reference points behind logistics science.
• Defining logistics management as an integrated system for controlling product flow.

Module 2: Warehouse Management as a Core Logistics Function

• Reasons for storage, types of warehouses, and storage objectives.
• Warehouse location, centralisation versus decentralisation, and classification and coding.
• Receiving, inspection and issuing operations, internal warehouse design, and inventory control.

Module 3: Control and Customer-Oriented Logistics

• Looking at logistics from a control perspective.
• Looking at logistics from a customer-orientation perspective.

Module 4: Core Logistics Concepts

• Concepts behind logistics systems, operations and activities.
• Concepts behind logistics flows and relationships.

Module 5: Strategic Planning and Human Capability Development

• Monitoring local and global market shifts to guide strategic logistics planning.
• Developing the human effort, skills and competency strategy a logistics team needs.