- Stores Function
- Materials Management
- Determination of Requirements, Specifications
- Stores/Stockyards, Organisation, Lay – out and security
- Procurement of Stores
- Receipts Procedure – Inspection and verification, Documentation, Storage of rejected goods, Handling of discrepancies.
- Storage of Goods – Storage including special, perishable and dangerous materials Protection of stores, Safety measures. Location systems, methods of storage and industrial house keeping
- Issue Procedure – Methods of Issue, Types of issue, Marshalling
- Stock Verification – Methods of verification, Organisation of the verification,Handling of Discrepancies.
- Inventory Control – Methods / Fiction and review of stock levels, Ordering systems and control of non/slow moving and sheet shelf life items. Redundant and obsolete stock.
- Stock Records – Purpose of stock records, Perpetual Inventories Document Design.
- Stores Accounting – Principles, Documentation, Methods of pricing
principle aspects of stock holding, Methods of stock evaluation, Recording and Stores Accounting. - Materials Handling – Materials Handling Cycle, Manual and mechanical handling and accident prevention.
- Classification and Coding and Cataloguing of Stores – Purpose method and systems.
- Disposal – Methods and Procedures for disposal of surplus and
unserviceable items. - Management Principles and Practice. – Nature of Management, Functions of Management,Principles and Techniques of Planning, Organisation,Co-ordination, Direction, Delegation, Control,Communication, Human relations, Motivation Work-Study, Disaster Management and Quality Circles.