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RETAIL LOGISTICS FROM BEGINNER TO ADVANCED LEVEL

person icon FARVEESH AHMED

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RETAIL LOGISTICS FROM BEGINNER TO ADVANCED LEVEL

"Streamline Retail Operations with Expert Logistics and Supply Chain Management Skills!"

updated on icon Updated on Jun, 2025

language icon Language - English

person icon FARVEESH AHMED

category icon Business,Operations,Supply chain

Lectures -17

Duration -2.5 hours

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Course Description

  1. Retail Logistics Overview The course covers the basics of retail logistics and how goods are moved, stored, and distributed from manufacturers to retailers and finally the customers. It focuses on highlighing the particular logistics requirements of the retail industry. This will run from fast order fulfillment to multiple-channel distribution.
    Students will understand how retail logistics interacts with the overall supply chain in terms of goods, information, and money flows from suppliers all the way to end consumers. Students will learn supply chain coordination, demand forecasting, and inventory replenishment.
    Transportation and Distribution Management
    This course discusses the modal choice for retail commodity transportation with optimizations of routes to achieve the desired delivery results. Strategies to reduce costs in distribution are also part of the lesson in ensuring timely delivery at the retail stores or customers.
    Warehouse and Inventory Management in Retail
    Students will be well exposed to specific warehousing and inventory management strategies relevant to the retail industry. The same will encompass maintaining optimum levels of stock, maximum utilization of space in a storage layout through ideal layouts and configurations, and, through real-time inventory tracking systems, providing maximum product availability with minimum occurrences of stockouts.
    Technology in Retail Logistics
    The module provides an overview of the application of technology in modern retail logistics. It includes systems like ERP, WMS, and TMS. All these have applications tracking the commodity and operations, and improving visibility in the supply chain.
    E-commerce and Omni-Channel Logistics
    These logistics challenges and strategies associated with e-commerce and omni-channel retailing increase with rising online shopping. Students learn how to manage the product inventory across different platforms and handle returns and last-mile delivery optimization to the customers.
    Retail Logistics Cost Management
    This section then focuses on understanding and controlling costs in retail logistics by transportation, storages, labors, and technology. Some lessons will teach students to reduce costs as well as how to maintain good efficiency in operations without sacrificing service quality.
    Customer Service and Logistics
    This section will enlighten students about how logistics can work efficiently in providing great customer services. It will cover such areas as ensuring timely deliveries and subsequent returns as well as exchanges with minimal problems. It underlines the positive relationship between a good logistics system with a service rendered end.
    Sustainability in Retail Logistics
    The curriculum includes the growing role of sustainability in retail logistics in teaching students methods and ways to achieve mastery of integration of eco-friendly practices; that can be executed at the transportation level including reduction of carbon emissions, development of green packaging solutions, and simple waste reduction in logistics processes.
    Global Logistics and Retail Expansion
    They would acquire knowledge on the subtleties of managing retail global logistics, such as international transportation and proper customs clearances and taking care of global supply chains. The chapter addresses retailers who venture into new markets and face problems with logistics.
    The following are all the informative points on retail logistics: they address generally issues related to retail logistics, preparing students who will eventually handle and further improve logistics operations in the fast-changing retail world.


Goals

  • Understand the Most Basic Concepts in Logistics: Understand all very fundamental concepts of retail logistics, including supply chain management, inventory control, and what is called distribution strategy.
  • Optimize the Supply Chain's Efficiency: Learn how to design and implement processes in the supply chain to reduce costs, avoid delays, and to ensure on-time delivery of goods.
  • Mastering Operations in a Warehouse: Acquire skills on how to carry out warehouse operations in ways that also encompass layout optimization, inventory management, and order fulfillment processes.
  • Apply Technology Solutions: Give an account of how various technology solutions are being applied in the handling of retail logistics. It includes Warehouse Management Systems, automation, and real-time tracking that make logistics streamlined.
  • Improve Last-Mile Delivery: Outline how the last-mile delivery process could be enhanced to see deliveries become quicker, more accurate, and affordable to customers.
  • Adjust to the Growth of E-commerce: Describe the effects of the trend of e-commerce on the logistics and the supply chain management perspective with respect to omnichannel fulfillment and reverse logistics.
  • Sustainability and Green Logistics: Learn how to integrate sustainable thinking into retail logistics, enhancing routes optimization, avoiding waste, and using eco-friendly packaging.
  • Risk and Safety Management: Study the elements of risk management and safety regimes for eliminating or minimizing disruption in the supply chain while enabling a safe working environment.
  • Measure and Improve Performance: Develop the ability to measure performance in logistics using metrics and continue to make improvements to optimize the work situation.
  • Case Studies with Annotations and Emerging Trends in Retail Logistics: Through case studies and emerging trends in retail logistics, learn concepts and apply them through scenarios that could be applied in the real world and strategic decision-making. 

Prerequisites


  1. Basic Knowledge of Business and Retail: A foundational understanding of retail operations, sales, or general business concepts is recommended for context on how logistics integrates into the broader retail environment.

  2. Understanding of Supply Chain Concepts: Familiarity with basic supply chain management concepts, such as procurement, inventory control, and distribution, will be helpful.

  3. Analytical Skills: Basic proficiency in analyzing data, identifying trends, and problem-solving is recommended, as these skills are essential for optimizing logistics and supply chain processes.

  4. Computer Literacy: A working knowledge of using common software like spreadsheets (e.g., Excel) for inventory management, and basic familiarity with logistics technologies such as Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools.

  5. Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively collaborate with teams, vendors, and stakeholders in logistics and supply chain operations.

  6. No Formal Education Requirement: While a background in logistics, supply chain management, or business studies is advantageous, there are no strict educational prerequisites. The course is designed to accommodate beginners as well as those with some industry experience.

This course is ideal for professionals looking to enhance their logistics knowledge, retail managers, or those interested in pursuing a career in supply chain management.

RETAIL LOGISTICS FROM BEGINNER TO ADVANCED LEVEL

Curriculum

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INTRODUCTION TO RETAIL LOGISTICS

7 Lectures
  • play icon Role of logistics in retail. 10:09 10:09
  • play icon Retail Inventory Management. 08:59 08:59
  • play icon Inventory control methods. 09:37 09:37
  • play icon Safety stock and reorder points. 06:08 06:08
  • play icon Retail Transportation Management. 10:05 10:05
  • play icon Modes of transportation in retail. 11:57 11:57
  • play icon Routing and scheduling. 10:14 10:14

RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES

3 Lectures
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E-COMMERCE AND RETAIL LOGISTICS

3 Lectures
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EMERGING TRENDS AND CASE STUDIES

4 Lectures
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