A single miscounted shipment, an item left undocumented, or a stock report that nobody bothered to reconcile — any of these can quietly drain an organisation's budget long before anyone notices. From Counting to Control, delivered by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy, starts from that reality: inventory counting and store control are not paperwork routines, they are the mechanism that keeps materials, money, and production moving together without loss.

Storage is one of the most consequential functions any industrial or commercial organisation runs, precisely because stored goods represent a large share of invested capital and because every other department depends on materials flowing out of the warehouse correctly and on time. This programme builds that discipline step by step — from the basic logic of counting to the organisational structure that keeps control effective long after the training ends.

Who Should Attend?

• Managers of institutions and companies.
• Warehouse staff in business establishments.
• Entrepreneurs looking to enhance their skills in inventory management.
• Warehouse keepers and their assistants in warehouses and storage facilities.
• Students and graduates of business administration faculties from various universities.

Knowledge and Benefits:

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

• Receive materials and products that require careful storage in a way that guarantees their safety.
• Keep stored products flowing to the departments that need them at the right time.
• Take on the responsibilities involved in inventory control processes with confidence.
• Apply inventory counting systems and methods, and resolve the practical challenges that come up during counting.
• Protect inventory from loss, damage, or deterioration.
• Cut storage costs down to the lowest level practically possible.

Module 1: Why Counting and Control Decide a Warehouse's Fate

• The concept, importance and objectives of inventory management.
• Storage's weight within an organisation's overall investment costs.

Module 2: Building the Inventory System

• Organisational procedures for running the counting process.
• Periodic reports for continuous inventory, and annual inventory reports.
• Handling waste and items treated in the same way.

Module 3: Modern Counting Techniques and the Control Function

• Modern techniques used in inventory counting.
• The concept and importance of the inventory control function.
• The nature of supervisory activity over inventory control.

Module 4: Organising the Control Unit

• The control unit's position, responsibilities and detailed competencies.
• Inventory control systems and tools.

Module 5: Measuring, Classifying and Pricing Stock

• Inventory from a conceptual and quantitative perspective.
• Classifying inventory into categories (A, B, C) and designing the classification system.
• Material pricing policies and their effect on tracking inventory movement and value.
• Evaluating purchasing activities as part of effective control.

Module 6: Documentation, Reporting and Technology

• Document flow for control: records, documents and registration processes.
• Control reports, their types, and measuring inventory efficiency.
• The control unit's role in monitoring lost or damaged items, and internal control.
• Information systems and computer use in inventory control.