Programme
Day 1
The company's logistics system and how it operates
- Goals and objectives of logistics in a changing environment. Mission and strategy of the logistics department
- Building an effective company logistics system
- The role and place of the logistics department in the company's management system, its goals, objectives and functions
- Objects of management in the logistics system
- Characteristics of logistics operations. Structure of logistics functions
- Links of the logistics system. Logistics channel, logistics chain. Logistics costs
Workshop:
Solving a case or completing a practical exercise
Purchasing logistics
- Goal and objectives of purchasing
- Main stages of the purchasing logistics cycle
- Forms and methods of purchasing
- Types of requirements and methods of determining them
- Working with suppliers, supplier selection
- Performance indicators of purchasing
Workshop:
Solving a case or completing a practical exercise
Day 2
International logistics
- Delivery terms. The delivery basis in foreign trade contracts
- International rules for the interpretation of trade terms «Incoterms 2010»
- Foreign trade transactions and operations
- Forms of settlement in foreign trade
- Structure of the foreign trade contract
- The EAEU foreign economic activity commodity nomenclature
- Determining customs value, calculating customs payments
Workshop:
Solving a case or completing a practical exercise
Transport logistics
- The role of transport in logistics systems
- Specifics of different modes of transport, advantages and disadvantages
- International conventions and rules governing international transport
- Transport documents. The freight forwarding contract
- Transport logistics performance indicators
Workshop:
Solving a case or completing a practical exercise
Day 3
Warehousing
- The warehouse as an element of the logistics system
- The place of warehouses in the goods movement chain
- Main functions and tasks of the warehouse
- Warehouse classification A, B, C, D
- The warehouse's interaction with other company units
- Warehouse planning. Determining the type and size of the warehouse
- Determining the main parameters of warehouse zones
- The handling process and its organisation in the warehouse
- Warehouse performance indicators
Workshop:
Solving a case or completing a practical exercise
Inventory management
- Basic concepts, goals and principles of inventory management
- Cost structure of creating and maintaining inventories
- Determining the optimal order quantity for replenishing stock: calculation and formulas, application examples
- Main inventory management parameters: demand parameters, order parameters, supply parameters, stock level
- The fixed order quantity inventory management system
- The fixed order interval inventory management system
- The ABC analysis method in inventory management and its algorithm
- The XYZ analysis method in inventory management and its algorithm
Workshop:
Solving a case or completing a practical exercise
