COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Shipping and Receiving Vocational Skills
Practical, hands-on technical skills training to prepare for entry-level positions in Shipping & Receiving. Includes picking and packing, forklift operation and certification, RF scanner operation, warehouse design for the transportation, warehousing, and logistics industry.
Shipping and Receiving Computational Skills
Contextualized basic skills in preparation for entry-level positions in Shipping & Receiving. Includes computer applications, freight rate calculation, arithmetic, pre-algebra, and problem-solving appropriate for the transportation, warehousing, and logistics industry.
Shipping & Receiving Career Development
Contextualized employment skills for in preparation for entry-level positions in Shipping & Receiving. Includes lecture and practical group & individual exercises with discussions about on-the-job leadership, problem-solving, conflict resolution, time management, priority & goal setting; completing job applications, resume writing, interview techniques, mock interviews, and how to succeed on the job.
Shipping and Receiving Reading, Literacy, and Communication Skills
Contextualized basic skills for technical training to prepare for entry-level positions in Shipping & Receiving. Includes basic English grammar, reading and writing skills, logistics terminology and procedures, documenting shipping records and waybills for the transportation, warehousing, and logistics industry.
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION:
The Shipping and Receiving Training Course is operated on the first floor of a brick building in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor on the Near West Side of Chicago. The infrastructure includes a classroom with eraser board, chairs and tables, video equipment, technical materials library, warehouse space for inventory/ forklift training, and instructors’ office. Equipment used in the hands-on training includes: three industrial forklifts, electric rider pallet truck, electric order picker, manual and electric pallet jacks, hand trucks, semi-automatic stretch wrapper, computer lab, hand-held RF scanners, and computerized shipping and warehouse management systems.
The Shipping and Receiving Training Course includes the following topics over a typical twelve-week course period required for completion with a maximum of thirty-eight students in the class:
Course Topics
Hours Of Instruction
A. Basic Skills 60
· Business Writing
· English Grammar
· English Vocabulary
· Reading Comprehension and Reasoning
· Writing Skills
· Business Math
B. Job-Specific Skills 300
· Warehouse Operations
· Workplace Safety
· Basic Receiving
· Basic Shipping
· Basic Storage
· Packaging
· Advanced Shipping
· Basic Inventory
· Forklift Operations
· Quality Control Procedures
· Traffic Management
· Computer Applications
C. Employment Skills 20
TOTAL CLOCK HOURS 380
