Course Objectives
When you have completed
this workbook, you will be better able to:
- contribute to the management and control of resources in your
organization
- explain the principles, and some ways of solving the problems, of
stores and stock control
- increase your skills in various aspects of materials management
- identify risks to physical, human and information resources and
have gained some practical ideas and experience with which to guard
against them
- carry out a review of actual and potential waste generation points
and take action to reduce waste accordingly
Assessment Criteria
Understand how material
stocks are acquired, controlled and recorded in an organization
1.1 Describe how to determine stock requirements in the workplace
1.2 Explain two consequences of not maintaining optimum stocks in
the workplace
1.3 Identify organizational stores/stock control principles and
procedures
1.4 Outline the organization's procedures for recording, receipt and
issue of supplies
1.5 Briefly describe why quality standards need to be maintained in
the organization
Know how to minimize
waste in an organization
2.1 Identify potential waste in the organization
2.2 Outline the techniques and/or methods for measuring and
monitoring waste in the organization
2.3 Compile a simple action plan to minimize waste in the workplace
International
Curriculum
Unit 3.28 - Official ILM
Curriculum, Institute of Leadership & Management
Course Outline
Workbook introduction
1 ILM Super Series study links
2 Links to ILM qualifications
3 Workbook objectives
4 Activity planner
Session A - DEALING WITH RESOURCES
1 Introduction
2 The Organization's Resources (Activity 1)
3 Managing Resources
- Monitoring resources (Activity 2)
4 People as a Resource (Activity 3)
- The under-used resource (Activity 4, 5)
- Treating people as individuals (Activity 6)
5 Equipment as a Resource (Activity 7)
6 Land and Buildings as a Resource (Activity 8)
7 Materials as a Resource (Activity 9)
Self Assessment, Summary
Session B - STORING AND ALLOCATING MATERIALS
1 Introduction
2 The Basic Principles of Stock Control
- The problems of holding stock (Activity 10, 11)
3 Rotating Stock
- The two-bin system (Activity 12)
4 Managing Stock
- The book stock formula (Activity 13)
- ABC analysis (Activity 14, 15, 16)
5 Receiving Goods
- Essential steps (Activity 17)
- Documentation (Activity 18, 19, 20)
6 Issuing Goods
- Materials requisition (Activity 21)
- Goods returned to supplier (Activity 22)
7 Stock Levels (Activity 23)
8 Computerized Systems
- Computerized receipt of goods
- Computerized issue of goods (Activity 24)
- The use of robots in materials handling (Activity 25)
- Bar coding
- Warehouse management systems
Self Assessment, Summary
Session C - PURCHASING, RESOURCE PLANNING AND SECURITY
1 Introduction
2 The Purchasing Function
- The purchasing function (Activity 26)
- Electronic Data Interchange - EDI (Activity 27)
- EDI on the internet
- E-procurement or B2B (Activity 28)
- Business exchanges
3 Materials Planning
- Less than the minimum : Just In Time (Activity 29, 30)
- Materials requirements planning
4 Resource Planning and Management
- Manufacturing Resource Planning
- Enterprise Resource Planning (Activity 31)
- Supply Chain Management (Activity 32)
Self Assessment, Summary
Session D - MANAGING WASTE
1 Introduction
2 Waste Control Legislation (Activity 33)
3 The Cost of Waste (Activity 34, 35)
4 A Staged Approach to Managing Waste
5 Awareness Raising (Activity 36)
6 Process Analysis (Activity 37, 38, 39)
7 Clarifying Costs (Activity 40, 41)
8 Future Planning
9 Defining the Problem and Identifying Solutions (Activity 42)
- Cause and effect (Activity 43, 44)
10 Taking Action (Activity 45)
Self Assessment, Summary
Performance checks
1 Quick quiz
2 Workbook assessment
Reflect and review
1 Reflect and Review
2 Action plan
3 Extensions
4 Answers to self-assessment questions
5 Answers to activities
6 Answers to the quick quiz
7 Certificate