Discipline: Business Degree Credit  [X]
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Riverside Community College District
Integrated Course Outline of Record

Business 85


COURSE DESCRIPTION
85 Warehouse Management Units: 3.00
 
Prerequisite: None.
 
Analysis of warehouse functions and management including facility location and operation, financial analysis, security, cargo handling, and productivity improvement and measurement. 54 hours of lecture.
 
SHORT DESCRIPTION FOR CLASS SCHEDULE
Analysis of warehouse location, operation, and management.
 
ADVISORY ENTRY SKILLS
None.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
 Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

1.   Analyze issues involved in locating warehouses.

2.   Examine warehouse operating and service procedures.

3.   Assess financial analysis of warehouse operations.

4.   Resolve warehouse security issues.

5.   Analyze cargo handling procedures.

6.   Compare warehouse utilization metrics and productivity
      improvement methods.
 
COURSE CONTENT
  TOPICS
 

1.   Understanding today’s warehouse
2.   Warehouse controls and procedures
3.   Warehouse management
4.   Warehouse security
5.   Cargo handling Information systems
6.   Measurement and improvement of utilization and productivity.
 
METHODS OF INSTRUCTION
 Methods of instruction used to achieve student learning outcomes may include, but are not limited to:

  • Facilitate discussions regarding relevant current issues in business to encourage students to make appropriate connections to the course content. 
  • Instruction may take the form of online, hybrid, TV or other distance learning format. 
  • Present lectures to describe the essentials of warehouse management concepts and their applications to business.
  • Develop and assign exercises to reinforce concepts and encourage students to apply them to current warehouse management trends and events.
  • Create and have students participate in cooperative learning tasks such as small group exercises to identify issues that relate to course content and utilize the content to offer opinions, solutions and analysis with respect to those issues.
  • Present case studies to provide students with the opportunity to utilize concepts learned in class to analyze real warehouse management situations.
  • Develop and assign tasks/activities such as presentations in order to assess students understanding of warehouse management concepts.  
 
METHODS OF EVALUATION
 Students will be evaluated for progress in and/or mastery of learning outcomes by methods of evaluation which may include, but are not limited to:

  • Individual or class projects designed to evaluate the application of warehouse management principles to simulations of business situations.
  • Examination designed to provide objective evidence that students have attained the level of understanding expected in areas detailed in the Student Learning Outcomes.
  • Individual, small group, or paired activities designed to allow students to demonstrate understanding of basic warehouse management concepts.
  • Quizzes and in-class participation demonstrating proficiency in the subject matter.
  • Quizzes designed to assess the student learning outcomes.
  • Written reports designed to assess the application of warehouse management principles.
  • Individual web projects designed to assess student proficiency in achieving the studen learning outcomes.
ASSIGNMENTS

Required Reading Assignments


Required Writing Assignments


Other Outside-of-Class Assignments
 
COURSE MATERIALS
 All materials used in this course will be periodically reviewed to ensure that they are appropriate for college level instruction. Possible texts include:

  • Ackerman, Ken. Warehousing Profitability: A Manager’s Guide. Ackerman Publications, 2000.
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