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Warehouse and Distribution Channels
Undergraduate | RMI-LGM220 | 2021
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Examine the roles distribution and warehousing play in a supply chain.
Register the facets that go into warehouse management, from small material handling to administration. Highlight technology's role in maintaining distribution channels.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Warehouse and Distribution Channels
About this subject
- Apply key concepts in warehousing and distribution channels management to generate appropriate approaches in the formulation of warehouse management strategy and distribution channel management strategy
- Design warehouse operations and distribution channel networks for both domestic and international contexts.
- Develop and compare various warehousing and distribution channels configurations and scenarios in the optimisation of supply chain networks.
- Demonstrate appropriate leadership, and leverage group resources to critically analyse real-world challenges in the operations of warehouses and distribution channels and develop solutions to those challenges.
- Please refer to RMIT University’s Learning Management System - Canvas, for further details.
In this subject you will explore the role of warehousing in a supply chain. The subject covers how a warehouse provides data on inventory levels throughout the supply chain as well as its role in the preparation and distribution of goods. The subject will focus on how a well-run warehouse can help an organisation to maintain product schedules and avoid supply issues. The subject also covers how distribution channels facilitate the timely delivery of raw materials/inventory to customers.
- Assessment Task 1 (Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4) (50%)
- Assessment Task 2 (Linked CLOs: 2) (50%)
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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