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Warehouse Operations

How a working warehouse runs materials from the gate to the job: goods receipt, inspection, put-away, storage and preservation, picking and issue. Covers location systems, stock rotation, warehouse safety and the measures that show whether the store is performing.

54m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons

What you'll learn

  • Explain the core warehouse flow from receipt to issue and why each step depends on the one before it
  • Apply goods receipt discipline — checking against the purchase order, quantity, condition and certification
  • Describe how location and binning systems and labelling make stock findable and countable
  • Apply FIFO and FEFO rotation and select suitable storage and preservation conditions for different materials
  • Recognise the core warehouse safety controls: racking integrity, forklift and pedestrian separation, and manual handling
  • Use housekeeping, 5S and warehouse KPIs to judge and improve store performance

Curriculum

Progress through each competency level in order.

1

Awareness

  • The Warehouse Flow: Receive to Issue
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Warehouse Safety and Housekeeping Basics
    Knowledge
    2m
  • Awareness Check: Warehouse Flow and Safety
    Assessment
    7m
2

Knowledge

  • Goods Receipt Discipline
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Locations, Binning and Labelling
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Knowledge Check: Receipt, Locations and Labelling
    Assessment
    8m
3

Skill

  • Storage, Preservation and Stock Rotation
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Assignment: Walk Down and Improve a Storage Area
    Assignment
    3m
  • Skill Check: Storage and Rotation Judgement
    Assessment
    8m
4

Mastery

  • Running the Store: 5S, Safety Systems and KPIs
    Knowledge
    3m
  • Assignment: Diagnose and Improve Store Performance
    Assignment
    3m
  • Mastery Assessment: Warehouse Judgement and Performance
    Assessment
    8m

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