Course content includes the following areas:
- Essential receiving activities
- Standard delivery documents
- Checking and reporting during unloading
- Key issues affecting storage
- Storage options/forms
- Order cycle practices
- Process improvement: accuracy/efficiency
- Order inspection
- Staging
- Packaging/labeling/accuracy/safe loading
- Inventory control fundamentals and systems
- Accurate counting
- Reverse inventory control
- Hazmat documentation
- Loading, unloading, storage, transport - hazmat
- Determining best mode of transportation
- Shipping documentation, routing, tracking, intermodal, customs
Training provided by the Transportation, Distribution and Logistics Institute: