Loyola Institute of Business Administration
Executive Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Warehouse Management– Course Plan
Faculty: M.Gurunathan
Mail id: guruforscm@gmail.com Contact: 88078-11267
Course Objectives
After completing this course, Students will be equipped with a basic understanding of the following:
- Need for warehouse and its key functions
- The warehouse and its increasing role within the supply chain and competitive strategy
- Warehouse operations, material handling process and transportation management
- Role of technology in the warehouse
- Warehouse cost management and performance controls.
Syllabus and delivery plan:
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Session |
Topic |
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1 |
Introduction to Logistics & SCM |
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2 & 3 |
Functions and Increasing Role of warehouse, VAS, An overview of Indian Warehousing Sector |
|
4 |
Types of warehouse and selection of tradeoff between public and private warehouse, 3PL |
|
5 |
Warehouse site selection criteria, facility configuration, space layout and dock design & Safety |
|
6 |
Activity profiling and Order picking operations – discrete, zone, Batching, wave and combination of these |
|
7 |
Warehouse Reengineering case analysis |
|
8 |
Facility location decisions I |
|
9 |
Inventory Management in Warehouse |
|
10 |
Leading Practices in Warehouse Management – Xdocking, Milk run, Consolidations, SOPs |
|
11 |
Container freight stations, dry ports and Logistics Parks |
|
12 |
Cold storage Facilities, Cold Chains |
|
13 |
Unitization, Palletization and Containerization |
|
14 |
Overview of MHEs |
|
15 |
Role of Technology in warehousing |
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16 |
Warehouse performance management and Audit |
*Teaching would be based on real life business situations and case discussions.
Evaluation would be as follows: Mid-term Test: 40%; Quiz: 20% and End term – 40%
Recommended References:
- Ronald H Ballou; Business Logistics / Supply Chain Management, Pearson
- S L Ganapathi & S K Nandi, Logistics Management, Oxford University Press of India, New Delhi 2015
- The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management, Alan Rushton, Phil Croucher & Peter Baker, The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transportation Management (UK)
- Bartholdi, J., Hackman, S.: Warehouse & distribution science:Warehouse & distribution science: , http://www.warehouse-science.com
- Edward Frazelle, World class warehousing and material handling.
- Donald J Bowersox, Supply chain logistics Management, McGraw Hill / Irwin Series
- Watch :
- Teacher: Mr. Gurunathan Mariayyah