Course description
Logistics Management for Health Commodities (Corporate Training)
This course is valuable for anyone who manages health commodities The technical topics apply to managing a variety of health commodities, including essential drugs, antiretroviral medicines, vaccines, contraceptives, antimalarial medicines, HIV and malaria rapid diagnostic tests, tuberculosis (TB) medicines, essential medicines, and others.
Many of the concepts described in this training will help anyone who is responsible for improving, revising, designing, and operating all or part of a logistics system including the design of data collection forms and inventory control systems. It offers guidance on how to assess the functioning of an entire logistics system and how to continually monitor and improve a system. This training is the starting point for anyone interested in learning about and understanding the key principles and concepts of supply chain management for health commodities
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Who should attend?
Who Should Attend
Logistics professionals at all levels of the organization. The course is ideal for those seeking to complement their supply chain and logistics experience with the latest theoretical knowledge in the field in preparation for assuming a higher position at their organization.
Training content
Logistics trends and practices
- Logistics overview
- Logistics, supply chain and the organization
- Strategic, tactical and operational elements of logistics
- Sustainable logistics
- Concepts in logistics: 3PL, 4PL
Transport management
- Objectives of transport management
- Transportation modes and types
- Efficient and effective transportation
- Matching the strategic service level
- Routing
- Cubing
- Considerations for international transportation
Warehousing operations
- Warehousing network design
- Configuration of warehousing space
- Value adding activities
- – Stockpiling, spot stocking and assortments
- – Cross docking, break bulking and consolidation
- – Mixing, postponement and assembly-to-order
- Warehouse activity profiling
- Warehousing cost calculation
- Sustainable warehousing practices
Inventory management
- Materials management scope
- Objectives of materials management
- Inventory types and classification
- Materials management challenges
- Material replenishment strategies
- > Make-to-stock
- > Make-to-order
- > Assemble-to-order
- > Design-to-order
Logistics and performance management
- The SCOR framework
- Identifying high level SCOR metrics
- Customizing low level SCOR metrics
- Managing targets
- Initiative for performance improvement
Certification / Credits
- Learn about a wide range of logistics principles and practices
- Understand Logistics Management Information Systems
- Learn how to assess the stock status
- Manage Inventory Control Systems
- Apply the principles of product selection
- Quantify Health Commodities
- Understand properly the Health Commodity Procurement
- Ensure proper Storage and Distribution
- Monitoring and Evaluation of Supply Chains
- Design Logistics System
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CONVERTAS offers a series of specialized training services across all areas of business, helping employees develop and increase their skills. Our highly qualified trainers through our specifically designed courses and workshops, as well as our innovative training methodology, will provide...