Healthcare Warehouse Inventory Management Training Course

Participants can apply storage, segregation, status, and environmental controls to healthcare products.

• WHO GDP principles for receipt, storage, distribution, and traceability controls
• Temperature mapping plans for ambient, refrigerated, frozen, and controlled storage areas
• Quarantine, released, rejected, recalled, and expired stock status segregation
• FEFO issue rules aligned with expiry dating and batch traceability
• Controlled-drug custody procedures, access logs, counts, and discrepancy escalation
• Cleaning schedules, pest control records, and storage-condition deviation handling

Participants can improve item-master quality and classify stock for differentiated control.

• GS1 identification structures: GTIN, GLN, SSCC, batch, and serialised identifiers
• SKU rationalisation using duplicate, obsolete, non-moving, and substitute item reviews
• ABC analysis ranked by annual consumption value and replenishment attention
• XYZ analysis distinguishes stable, seasonal, intermittent, and erratic demand patterns
• Criticality-demand matrix sets differentiated controls for high-risk clinical items
• Item master change controls protect descriptions, conversions, and approved suppliers

Participants can set inventory parameters using demand, lead-time, service-level, and supply-risk data.

• Demand histories cleaned for stockouts, substitutions, campaigns, and exceptional events
• Moving-average and exponential-smoothing forecasts selected by demand behaviour
• Reorder point calculations combine average demand, lead time, and safety stock
• Safety-stock settings reflect variability, service targets, and supplier reliability
• Min-max parameters reviewed against consumption, pack sizes, and ordering constraints
• Seasonal and outbreak scenarios adjust forecasts for medicines and consumables

Participants can control goods receipt and putaway to prevent inaccurate, damaged, or unsuitable stock entering storage.

• Advance shipment notices checked against purchase orders, licences, and delivery appointments
• Three-way receipt verification matches quantities, batches, expiry dates, and purchase orders
• Damage, temperature excursion, and short-delivery investigations documented at goods-in
• Sampling plans distinguish full counts, risk-based inspection, and supplier-certified deliveries
• Putaway rules assign locations by temperature, hazard, velocity, and compatibility
• Barcode scanning controls prevent misidentification during receiving and location confirmation

Participants can organise storage and picking processes for safe, accurate, and efficient order fulfilment.

• Slotting analysis positions fast movers, heavy cases, and fragile products safely
• Dedicated, random, and zone storage compared for control and space use
• Pick-path design reduces travel, congestion, and selection errors
• Batch and serial-number capture maintains end-to-end product traceability
• Two-bin replenishment signals trigger timely forward-pick location refills
• Cold-chain handling protects products during picking, staging, and dispatch
• Cycle-count frequencies assigned using ABC classes, risk, and transaction volume

Participants can manage order priority, dispatch verification, custody records, and returns decisions.

• Order prioritisation rules balance emergency requests, scheduled replenishment, and clinical urgency
• Pick-list controls require item, batch, quantity, and destination verification
• Independent final checks detect selection errors before dispatch release
• Dispatch documentation records chain of custody, temperatures, and recipient confirmation
• Route staging separates ambient, chilled, hazardous, and controlled-drug consignments
• Returns assessment determines restock, quarantine, disposal, or supplier claim actions

Participants can run cycle-count programmes and correct the causes of inventory record inaccuracies.

• Perpetual inventory records reconciled with physical counts and transaction histories
• Cycle-count programmes scheduled by ABC class, criticality, and discrepancy history
• Root-cause analysis categorises variances: process, master data, theft, and damage
• Inventory accuracy KPIs calculate record-to-physical agreement by location and SKU
• Adjustment authorisation matrix separates investigation, approval, posting, and audit review
• Shrinkage controls address pilferage, mispicks, unrecorded issues, and receiving errors

Participants can identify and control product expiry, recalls, quality holds, and disposal requirements.

• Expiry dashboards identify at-risk batches by value, criticality, and months remaining
• FEFO exception management handles allocated stock, short-dated deliveries, and clinical demand
• Recall traceability retrieves affected batches, destinations, quantities, and contact records
• Quarantine workflows prevent recalled, expired, damaged, and suspect products re-entering stock
• Disposal documentation records authorisation, witnessing, environmental requirements, and destruction certificates
• Supplier claims recover value from expiry, damage, temperature, and quality failures

Participants can use warehouse measures and structured actions to improve inventory control over 90 days.

• Warehouse scorecard combines service, accuracy, expiry, productivity, safety, and cost
• OTIF, fill rate, inventory turns, and days of stock calculated consistently
• Process mapping identifies delays from receipt through putaway, picking, and dispatch
• Pareto analysis focuses improvement effort on high-value losses and recurring failures
• Corrective-action plans assign owners, dates, evidence, and effectiveness checks
• Application plan sequences 90-day inventory-control improvements, measures, and governance reviews