Warehouse Management, Material, Storage & Logistics, PG Course

Seminar or Course Number 237 - Warehouse Management, Material Handling, Storage and Logistics Operation Course, Leading to Diploma - Postgraduate - in Warehouse Management, Material Handling, Storage and Logistics Operation, Double-Credit, 60 Credit-Hours, accumulating to a Postgraduate Certificate, with 120 additional Credit-Hours, and a Postgraduate Diploma, with 300 additional Credit-Hours.  

Doctor of Philosophy {(PhD) {University College London (UCL) - University of London)};

MEd Management (University of Bath);

Postgraduate (Advanced) Diploma Science Teacher Ed. (University of Bristol);

Postgraduate Certificate in Information Systems (University of West London, formerly Thames Valley University);

Diploma in Doctoral Research Supervision, (University of Wolverhampton);

Teaching Certificate;

Fellow of the Institute of Management Specialists;

Human Resources Specialist, of the Institute of Management Specialists;

Member of the Asian Academy of Management (MAAM);

Member of the International Society of Gesture Studies (MISGS);

Member of the Standing Council for Organisational Symbolism (MSCOS);

Member of ResearchGate;

Executive Member of Academy of Management (AOM). There, his contribution incorporates the judging of competitions, review of journal articles, and guiding the development of conference papers. He also contributes to the Disciplines of:

Human Resources;

Organization and Management Theory;

Organization Development and Change;

Research Methods;

Conflict Management;

Organizational Behavior;

Management Consulting;

Gender & Diversity in Organizations; and

Critical Management Studies.

Professor Dr. Crawford has been an Academic in the following UK Universities:

University of London (Royal Holloway), as Research Tutor;

University of Greenwich (Business School), as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management;

University of Wolverhampton, (Wolverhampton Business School), as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management;

London Southbank University (Business School), as Lecturer and Unit Leader.

His responsibilities in these roles included:

Doctoral Research Supervisor;

Admissions Tutor;

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Dissertation Supervisor;

Programme Leader;

Personal Tutor.

He was formerly an Expatriate at:

Ministry of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria;

Ministry of Science and Technical Education, Sokoto, Nigeria;

University of Sokoto, Nigeria;

College of Education, Sokoto, Nigeria; and

Former Editor-In-Chief of ‘Sokoto Journal of Education’.

By the conclusion of the specified learning and development activities, delegates will be able to:

Effectually manage the operations and functions of warehousing;

Classify distinctions between warehousing processes;

Recognise the emphasis of distribution centres on processing and moving goods on to wholesalers, retailers, or consumers rather than on storage;

Evaluate warehousing and distribution strategies from a qualitative and quantitative perspective;

Utilise the role that contracts have in warehousing services and the process involved in attaining a contract to protect both the user and provider;

Identify the importance of and functions related to warehouse management in controlling the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and in processing the associated transactions;

Optimize warehouse operations and warehouse space availability as impacted by equipment layout and product flow;

Facilitate the role of packaging in protecting product to ensure that it gets to the customer in the operating condition expected;

 Highlight the effect of good communication in the interface between the warehouse, the carrier and the driver as key to success in terms of contribution to efficacy, efficiency and cost reduction;

Consider and analyse many parameters to optimize warehouse location or placement as both strategic and operational decision that directly influence customer servicing aspects, cost, and price factors;

Recognise that safety of personnel and security of product are the basic building blocks for warehouse operations that can neither be neglected without detriment to operational efficiency and the bottom line.

Realise better efficiency and reduction in cost by leveraging the data accuracy and computing power inherent in today’s integrated information systems.

Label or categorise a warehouse as “specialized” by the function a warehouse serves and by the unique nature of the materials and goods handled and stored.

Facilitate the speed and overall ease of product flow throughout the logistical system.

 Design an inventory management system which is able to meet the dictates of market place and support the company’s strategic plan.

Warehouse Management, Material Handling, Storage and Logistics Operation Seminar or Course, Leading to Diploma – Postgraduate in Warehouse Management, Material Handling, Storage and Logistics Operation (Double Credit), Accumulating to a Postgraduate Diploma.

Part 1: Key Issues in Warehousing

Part 2: Warehouse and Warehousing

Part 3: Warehouse Distribution Centre

Part 4: Warehouse Management and Performance Systems

Part 5: Materials Handling and Packaging

Part 6: Transportation

Part 7: Inventory Management for Organisational Effectiveness

Part 8: Key Elements of Logistics Management

Part 9: International Logistics

Part 10: Logistics and Information and Communications Technologies

  (ICT)