Supply and transport Notes
- Definition of purchasing
- Origin of the need to purchase
- Purchasing process
- Sources of supply
- Meaning of stock control
- Reasons for holding stock
- Stock control methods
- Factors considered in stock control
- Meaning of warehousing
- Types of warehouses
- Setting up of storehouses and stockyards
- Order picking
- Methods used in the process of inspection of goods
- Process of receiving, inspecting and issuing goods
- Security measures
- Safety measures
- Meaning of the term store layout
- Objectives of store layout
- Types of store layout
- Meaning of the terms classification and coding
- Basis of classification and coding of materials
- Meaning of transport
- Importance of transport
- Functions of transport
- Meaning of physical distribution
- Components of physical distribution
- Purpose of control of transport industry
- Professional bodies involved in control of transport industry