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The Institute of Supply Chain Management (IoSCM) is the leading provider of supply chain management qualifications globally.
Logistics plays a vital role in the overall function of the supply chain. Logistics is often the link between suppliers, manufacturers and customers. Ensuring raw materials arrive on time is as equally important as ensuring the end user received their finished products when they expect. In order to provide a reliable, cost effective logistics service, a business needs to ensure they understand how to optimise their logistics operations to meet market demand, to do this effectively, it is important to understand the systems, measures and factors that can support, and impact on, a logistics operation within a supply chain.
Who is it for?
As the pace of change across the supply chain is ever increasing, refreshing and developing your knowledge and skills to adapt to these changes is more important than ever. IoSCM understands that not everyone has the time or requirement to study a full qualification and therefore they have created a fantastic range of bite-size online training programmes. Created by Industry experts each of the courses have been designed to give you a great understanding of a particular topic or function from across the supply chain. Ideal for those looking to learn about a new area or to refresh and expand your existing knowledge to help you advance within your chosen profession without the restrictions of studying for a full qualification.
Learner Outcomes
The ‘How to optimise the use of Logistics Operations’ bite-size course has been written and developed by experts with combined experience, totalling decades, of working in logistics operations and the wider supply chain industry. Using first-hand knowledge and experience of logistics operations requirements and functions, within modern business, the introductory course has been written to support you with expanding your understanding of:
- An understanding of the management systems used for both inventory and warehousing
- A constructive explanation of the factors which may affect logistics services
- Knowledge on Return on Investment (ROI)
- The ability to improve and develop logistics resources that are available within logistics operations, using key performance indicators (KPIs), The Balanced Scorecard and The Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR)
The course is designed to give you a detailed introduction to, and understanding of, how you can fully optimise the use of logistics operations within your organisation, to support the overall aims and functionality of the supply chain and wider business objectives.
Module Format
Logistics is more than just the movement of goods. Every aspect of your business will require logistics operations to make it successful. This course commences by exploring what is meant by ‘Inventory management systems’ and ‘Warehouse management systems’. We look at what makes an effective management system and the factors to consider when ensuring the system you are using or implementing is right for your business.
The course then moves on to look at what factors can affect the use of logistics services. Why you need to use more than one type of services and the objectives of logistics operations. Return on Investment (ROI) and the importance of adopting cost effective solutions are also addressed.
The course concludes by looking at how to improve and develop the logistics based resources which are used in logistics operations. Looking at how to measure and manage logistics performance including key performance indicators, The Balanced Scorecard and The Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR) – all of which play a vital role in selecting and implementing the right management systems and resources to support your logistics operations.
The bite-size course is an online interactive learning programme, broken down into informative topics to help you progress through the course in a user-friendly way. Throughout your learning, you can use the self-test questions to cement your understanding and can pause and resume your studies whenever it is convenient.
On average the course takes three to four hours to complete, making it the perfect learning tool for Professionals with busy lives. In addition to the reading materials, you will find videos and info graphics throughout your course to provide you with further insight into the topic you are studying.
End of Course Assessment
To enhance your learning journey and to ensure you have a firm understanding of the topics covered within your chosen course, we have included a number of self-test questions, with are easily accessible throughout your studies. The self-test questions can be answered whenever you choose and as often as you require. Designed to help you re-cap on the subjects covered within each topic, the self-test questions also demonstrate to IoSCM that you can now successfully implement your new knowledge within the workplace, achieving the standards required to meet the demands of the modern workplace. In order to complete your bite-size studies and receive your certificate you need to achieve an overall score of 80% + on the questions. Don’t worry if you don’t achieve this on your first attempt, simply revisit the topic, refresh your knowledge and try again.
Once you have achieved the required score you have successfully completed your bite-size studies with IoSCM. Your IoSCM certificate is now available for you to download and will make a great addition to your C.V. To further support you with your professional development you can refer back to the course and continue to use the self test questions as and when you need to.