Advanced Warehouse Management in the Oil & Gas Industry

Introduction

Warehouses are often under-rated operations in organisations, yet they are essential in providing customer service and reducing costs. The purpose of this 3 day intensive training course is to show how to implement all of the essential tools for the effective management of warehousing in an oil and gas environment.

This Advanced Warehouse Management training course shows how to evaluate procedures, change and improve methods by eliminating wasteful activities and excess costs. It provides the practical skills to take back to the workplace so that all those internal problems that limit performance are avoided. The training course will allow delegates to obtain added value for money and to improve customer service.

Warehouses that operate to a high degree of efficiency deliver superior customer satisfaction and return on investment by working together with the other parts of the organisation’s supply chain.

The GLOMACS Advanced Warehouse Management training course will highlight:

• Build and maintain best practices in a warehouse and stores department in an oil & gas environment
• Improved contractor/supplier relationships that bring higher performance
• Better knowledge of how warehousing can impact the organization’s finances
• Develop skills in warehouse professionals which will raise capability, skill and morale
• The methods of calculating capacities and throughputs
• Reduced total cost of materials & services

Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will learn to:

• Identify Advanced best practices for warehouse professionals
• Think in terms of value added to customers and shareholders
• Integrate of the organization's planning with warehouse planning and scheduling
• Understand the importance of the role of the warehouse in a wider context of the overall success of the business
• Explore traditional versus innovative warehouse techniques
• Consider the customer relationship with marketing and production

Training Methodology

Participants to this course will receive a thorough training on the subjects covered by the course outline with the Tutor utilising a variety of proven adult learning teaching and facilitation techniques. Training methodology include an interactive mixture of lecture by an experienced, expert practitioner, exercises, practice, review of published articles and group discussions covering current best practices and their relationship to the implementation of new concepts.  Oil & Gas activities and work with practice regional case studies are used to deliberately highlight leadership concepts and allow participants to practise new skills.