Logistics Services Management

Logistics Services Management

Methodology:

• The training course will include exercises and regional and international case studies.
• Participants will work in pairs or groups.

Course Objectives:

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

• Identify the latest trends in supply chain and modern logistics services as a basis for sustainable performance.
• Apply quantitative and qualitative material forecasting techniques to simplify logistics processes.
• Develop market entry strategies for different product categories based on supply risks and associated financial impact.
• Describe the role of transportation in logistics services and identify operational improvement opportunities.
• Understand the role of warehouses and focus on operational performance.
• Apply the SCOR framework, a reference for supply chain operations, to manage the strategic, operational, and tactical aspects of logistics services.

Target Audience:

• The course targets logistics professionals at all levels within an organization who seek to gain expertise in supply chain and logistics services, using the latest theoretical knowledge to qualify them for higher positions.

Program Content:

• Modern trends in logistics services and supply chain.
• Overview of logistics services.
• Organizing logistics services and supply chain.
• Strategic, tactical, and operational elements of logistics services.
• Sustainability in logistics services.
• Concepts in logistics services.
• Concepts of 3PL.
• Concepts of 4PL.

Transportation Management: Objectives of transportation management:

• Costs associated with transportation management.
• Transportation modes and types.
• Efficient and effective transportation.
• Aligning strategic service levels.
• Route guidance.
• Cubing of goods.
• Considerations in international transportation.
• International trade terms (Incoterms 2010).

Warehousing Operations:

• Storage network design.
• Arrangement of storage space.
• Value-added activities.
• Stacking, immediate storage, and classification.
• Unloading, sorting, and assembly of goods.
• Mixing of goods, postponement, and order assembly.
• Determining warehouse activities.
• Calculating storage costs.
• Sustainable storage practices.

Inventory Management:

• Scope of resource management.
• Objectives of resource management.
• Types and classification of inventory.
• Challenges of resource management.
• Resource replenishment strategies.
• Make-to-stock manufacturing.
• Make-to-order manufacturing.
• Assemble-to-order manufacturing.
• Design-to-order manufacturing.
• Design-to-supply manufacturing.
• Design for the environment.

Performance Management and Logistics Services:

• Overview of the SCOR framework.
• Identifying high-level SCOR matrices.
• Customizing low-level SCOR matrices.
• Goal management.
• Continuous performance improvement.