LOG 104: Applied Warehouse and Inventory Management

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Description:

Tacoma Community College offers a Logistics course program, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, to provide students with the professional skills necessary to succeed in warehouse, inventory, and supply chain management. Logistics 104, “Applied Warehouse and Inventory Management,” seeks to introduce students to the practical concepts of warehouse management through a combination of hands-on exercises, lectures, readings, and projects. The course broadly orients students to “warehousing and inventory management including the types of equipment, storage processes and systems, and technologies used to identify and track units in a warehouse, and the regulations designed to ensure safety in warehouse operations.”

Course Information:

Logistics 104 “Applied Warehouse and Inventory Management” is offered at Tacoma Community College as a ten-week online course. It is arranged by modules on a variety of topics including: warehouses in the supply chain, warehousing operations, warehouse storage modes, material handling equipment, warehouse technology for item tracking, warehouse performance and metrics, inventory management, warehouse logistics and sustainability, and warehouse safety and ergonomics. Each weekly module contains lecture slides, reading and reference materials, a weekly assignment, and a quiz.

Upon completion of the course, students will have an understanding of the role of warehousing in logistics and business, know standard inventory policies, understand modern storage systems and paperless identification technologies including RFID, understand how to use appropriate hardware and software to avoid shipping and billing errors, be familiar with standard safety operations and avoid industrial hazards, know industry terminology and acronyms, be able to work as part of a team, and apply the principles learned in the activities to professional applications.

For orientation purposes, readers should begin with Tacoma_LOG104_Syllabus.pdf. This detailed letter to instructors and students contains a course overview, descriptions for each of the modules by week, and suggested quiz questions. A list of web and print resources, called "Resources" was compiled for all the Logistics courses and is included in the Administrative section for reference.

Attached is a .zip file containing documents associated with the course. These materials fall into several distinct categories: administrative, lecture slides, case studies, reference documentation, and student assignments.

Course Contents:

The attached files associated with LOG 104 online course exist in a variety of formats including .pdf, .doc, .xls, and .ppt. Below is a list of the files organized by category then alphabetically, with the file name and size provided in parenthesis.

Administrative

Applied Warehouse and Inventory Management – LOG 104 (Instructor Manual Log.docx 104 88 KB)
Course Outline (Course Outline.doc 45 KB)
Resources (Tacoma CC Logistics Bibliography_Nov 6 2013.docx) 20.4 KB
Syllabus (Syllabus.doc 61 KB)

Lecture Slides

Automating the Warehouse- Warehouse Management Systems (WMS-tech.ppt 9.3 MB)
Environmental Sustainability in Transportation and Logistics (Logistics Sustainability.ppt 1.5 MB)
Introduction to Order Profiling (OPIntro.ppt 7.5 MB)
Managing Inventory in the Warehouse (Inventory Control.ppt 1.3 MB)
Material Handling Equipment- Storage (Material Handling Equipment- Storage.ppt 6 MB)
Material Handling Equipment- Warehouse and Inventory Management (Material Handling Equipment-Moving Equipment.ppt 28.7 MB)
Material Handling Equipment- Warehouse and Inventory Management (MHE.ppt 28.7 MB)
Retail Chain Distribution (MH_Costing_Student_Handouts.pdf 264 KB)
Retail Distribution Center (RDC.ppt 280 KB)
Retail Distribution Center (Retail Distribution Center – mini.ppt 282 KB)
Warehouse Efficiency Management (Warehouse Metrics.ppt 206 KB)
Warehouse Layout and Design (Warehouse Layout Planning and Best Practices 2011.ppt 2.4 MB)
Warehouse Operations (WH_Ops.ppt 2.4 MB)
Warehouses in the Supply Chain (Warehouses in the Supply Chain.ppt 2.3 MB)
Warehouse Safety and Ergonomics Technologies (WHSafety&Ergonomics.ppt 973 KB)

Documentation and Reference Material

Order Profiling Review (Order Profiling Review.doc 39 KB)
Semi Automated System Plan (semiauto_plan.pdf 163 KB)
Vital Vitamins Layout (Vital Vitamins-layout.doc 68 KB)
Vital Vitamins Spreadsheet (Vital Vitamins.xls 332 KB)
Warehouse Operations Comparison (WH_Ops_comparison.doc 36 KB)

Case Studies

Case Study: Officemax Customer Fulfillment Center CFC Consolidation (OfficeMax Case Study.doc 59 KB)
Logistics Case Study: “Trash to Cash” a Case Study of Recycling in the Grocery Industry (safeway case – with notes.doc 449 KB)
Logistics Case Study: “Trash to Cash” a Case Study of Recycling in the Grocery Industry (safeway case.doc 446 KB)
Short Case Studies (Short_Case_Studies.doc 35 KB)

Student Assignments