Competitive companies don't just store goods — they manage the full cost of getting materials in, keeping them safe, and moving them out at the right time. That combination of warehousing discipline and logistics thinking is what separates an efficient operation from one that quietly bleeds money on storage and procurement.

This integrated programme from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy brings both sides together: the fundamentals of keeping stock at the right quantities until it's needed, alongside the broader logistics view of purchasing, negotiation, and supply planning. Participants work through international storage standards and quality-management practices so they can run warehouse and logistics operations that hold up under real business pressure.

Course Objectives

• Understand the warehouse management function and its role in keeping the right stock available at the right time.
• Apply quality planning and organisation to purchasing and storage decisions.
• Calculate economic purchase quantities and control purchasing and storage costs.
• Negotiate purchases in ways that protect the organisation's competitive position.
• Apply procurement methods under governing tender and procurement regulations.
• Implement modern warehouse procedures in line with international specifications and quality management systems.

Who Should Attend?

• Warehouse and logistics managers.
• Procurement and purchasing officers.
• Supply chain coordinators.
• Operations and general managers overseeing storage functions.

Module 1: The Business Case for Integrated Warehouse & Logistics Management

• The concept and importance of storage.
• The historical stages the concept of storage has gone through.
• Logistics, supply, and supply chain management concepts.

Module 2: Planning Purchases the Smart Way

• Determining economic purchase quantities.
• Methods for controlling purchasing and storage costs.
• Purchase negotiation and protecting the organisation's competitive position.

Module 3: Procurement Rules and Tender Procedures

• Purchasing methods under government procurement and tender regulations.
• Preparing and issuing tenders and concluding contracts.

Module 4: Modern Standards for Warehouse Operations

• Modern procedures for warehouse management according to international specifications.
• Applying quality management systems inside the warehouse.
• The scientific and economic importance of warehouse and store management.

Module 5: Keeping the System Running

• The executive importance of warehouse management.
• Material movement inside warehouses and stores.
• The conditions needed to achieve warehouse management objectives.