Workshop on Logistics and Transport Management: Issues and Challenges

Program Overview:
All around the globe, 24hours of every day, 7days a week, during 52weeks a year, logistics is concerned with getting products and services to where they are needed at the precise time desired. It is difficult to visualize accomplishing any marketing, manufacturing or international commerce without logistics. Therefore, logistics means movement (transport) of products and services from the point of manufacturing to the point of consumption (PDM) at a very low cost.
This Logistics and Transport Management training examines the effective management and flow of materials through an organization’s supply chain. Significant costs, delays to standard operations and projects are often caused by small inefficiencies in logistics and transportation. In this course we will discuss how costs can be reduced; performance improved as well as increase in customer satisfaction while looking at the challenges involved.
For whom:
Supply chain Managers, Logistics Managers, Retail Managers, Distribution Managers, Transport Managers, and Administrative Managers / Officers
Learning objectives:
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
⦁ define and explain the process of supply and demand chain;
⦁ facilitate customers’ satisfaction through improved transport and logistics management;
⦁ examine inventory reduction techniques;
⦁ develop an effective and timely delivery system of products to customers/destinations;
⦁ discuss the financial aspect of transportation and logistics;
⦁ recognize the importance of warehousing in transportation and logistics management;
⦁ discuss and manage Drivers issues and challenges;
⦁ acquire good negotiation skills; and
⦁ set goals and objectives for effective Logistics and transportation management
Course outline:
Day 1: Understanding Supply Chain and Logistics Management
⦁ How organization supply and demand chains work
⦁ Objectives of supply chain management
⦁ The key steps in purchasing
⦁ Supplier location and selection
⦁ Types of contracts and purchase orders
⦁ Supplier management
⦁ Quality assurance
⦁ Remedies for non-performance of suppliers
Day 2: Logistics, Documentation and EXIM Procedures
⦁ Documentation – Importance in logistics
⦁ Overview on Incoterms
⦁ HS Code and its Strategic importance
⦁ Different types of transportation documents used in air, road, and sea transports
⦁ Understanding Letter of credit
Role of Logistics in Supply Chain
⦁ Functions and goals of logistics
⦁ Logistics and its impact on business processes
⦁ Reverse logistics
⦁ Logistics Concept – 3rd Party Logistics/4th Party Logistics
Day 3: Warehousing Operations and Inventory Management
⦁ Warehouse Network designing and configuration
⦁ Inventory Management
⦁ Inventory management systems
⦁ Consignment inventory
⦁ Just in time inventory management
⦁ Utilizing ABC analysis
⦁ Sustainable Warehouse Best Practices
⦁ Assessment: Issues and Challenges
Day 4: Transportation and Distribution Planning
⦁ Factors affecting transportation decisions
⦁ Network design options
⦁ Routing of distribution vehicles
⦁ Managing Thirty Party Transport and Outsourcing
⦁ Drivers Management: Journey Management,
Route Planning, Tracking Systems etc.
Fleet Management
⦁ Setting objectives for fleet management
⦁ Measuring and improving fleet utilization
⦁ Fleet Maintenance Management
⦁ Benefits of preventive maintenance and inspections
⦁ Unscheduled maintenance
⦁ Vendor versus in-house maintenance
Day 5: Negotiation Skills Development
⦁ Establishing negotiating goals
⦁ Effective negotiating strategies
⦁ Effective negotiating techniques
Productivity and Service Levels Management
⦁ Setting productivity and cost targets
⦁ Fixed and variable cost
⦁ Typical costs involved
⦁ The importance of having measurements and key indicators of performance
⦁ Managing Internal and external customers
⦁ Effects of substandard service

Training Methodology
Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods