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Advanced Material Management
Advanced Material Management (AMM) enables businesses to produce electronic requests for materials, dispatch those materials, and track inventory movements of all inventory—including raw materials and work in process. Using wireless terminals and barcoding technology, you are able to track inventory in real-time with complete control and visibility of raw materials and work in process as it travels throughout the enterprise.
Policies and Procedures
Examples of the types of policies for inventory management that organizations will define are as follows:
Organizational specific warehouse management policy and procedures guideline outline
Health and safety
Human resources management
Security
Pest control
Warehouse Maintenance and cleaning
Quality control
Record keeping and reporting
Reverse logistics – Return of goods and exit strategy in the event of downscaling or shutting down operations
Disposal of obsolete and damaged goods.
Procedures
The procedures’ document defines step by step how the activities in the warehouse should be carried out and clearly defines the processes to be adopted. These can be adopted as ‘best practice’.
Procedures and step by step guidance on how to manage each aspect of warehousing are outlined below:
receiving and issuing of supplies;
quality control or verification;
storage of goods;
how to control stock movement (stock control);
documentation flow;
how to detect and deal with stock losses;
how rejected material will be managed; and
how to deal with unwanted material, obsolete and scrap, disposal