Distribution Centre Planning and Transportation Management
This program is Module 3 of the Masters Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management.
Types of Distribution Centres (DC): What’s Right for Your Business
- Comparing distribution models and your DC make-up
Designing a Distribution Centre to Support the Business
- DC actions that will benefit the entire supply chain and drive company success
- Achieving Reliability, Responsiveness, Flexibility
- The perfect order
- Principles of ‘Lean Logistics’
Distribution Centre Layout Planning for Flow and Effectiveness
- Building features of modern, leading DC designs
- Bridging static and automated storage
- Selecting the right handling equipment
Minimizing Labour Effort and Increasing Accuracy
- Seven principles for efficient order filling
- Automation, Motivation and Error Reduction
Information Technology and Process Integration in Your DC
- Evaluating WMS, EDI and RFID technologies
- Harnessing DC metrics for operational success
- Green initiatives that make real economic sense
Developing a Transportation Management Strategy
- The impact of supply chain complexity
- Shifts in channel power and impacts on your transportation function
- Relationship with production, warehousing, order fulfillment and customer service
Domestic Transportation Strategy
- Alternative domestic transportation modes
- The cost and characteristics of traditional ground, rail, water and air
- Outsourcing transportation
- Cost and service implications of domestic transportation
- Risk factors in your transportation system
International Transportation Strategy
- Defining your current and ongoing needs
- Modal attributes
- Evaluating international service providers
- Shipping terms of sale – risk factors
- Understanding global markets and their unique transportation policies
Transportation Compliance for Success
- INCOTERMS 2010/ Contracts of sale
- Cargo security programs
- Managing risk and due diligence issues