Logistics and Transport Management

• Understand the major aspects of transportation and logistics in the context of the current business environment.
• Develop a familiarity with the issues involved in the transport of cargo internationally.
• Have an awareness of the legal, documentary and mechanical aspects of international trade from the perspective of doing business from Nigeria.
• Become familiar with the general issues concerning the management of a warehouse. These include site selection, warehouse layout, safety and security measures, cost drivers, shipping and receiving, packaging, inventory management principles, and just-in-time fulfillment.
• Gain familiarity with the concept of logistics outsourcing. Understand which logistics functions are more successfully outsourced. What factors must be considered before undertaking an outsourcing relationship.
• Become familiar with some basic strategies for conducting a successful negotiation.

CONTENT

• Documentation in the transportation of goods;
• Managing warehouse operations;
• Inventory management;
• Information technology
• Logistic outsourcing principles and practice
• Rights and duties of a haulage company
• Developing vehicular maintenance and safety policies
• Laws guiding transportations in Nigeria
• Insurance policies covering transportation and logistics
• Ethics of logistics business
• Managing and reducing logistics frauds
• Negotiating Strategies

FOR WHOM:

Logistics and Transport Managers

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.