Welcome to the Logistics Manual

Procurement

• What's covered in this chapter?
• Definitions and concepts
• Planning procurement
• Planning resources for procurement
• Procurement processes in the British Red Cross
• Sourcing for procurement
• Managing procurement
• Procurement of special items and services

Warehousing

• What's covered in this chapter?
• Definitions and concepts
• Building a stock strategy
• Sourcing a warehouse
• Setting up a warehouse
• Managing a warehouse
• The ERU stock management
• The RLU stock management
• Releasing stock
• Stock takes and reconciliation
• Disposing of and writing off stock
• Health and safety in the warehouse
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Transport

• What's covered in this chapter?
• Types of movements: local and international
• Modes of shipment
• Procuring and sourcing for transport
• Sourcing inspection services
• Planning, tracking and reporting on transport
• Shipping instructions
• Special considerations
• Safety, security and incident reports
• Transport documentation
• Transport data analysis
• Shipping ERU kits and RLU stocks
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Assets

• What's covered in this chapter?
• Definition of an asset
• Categories of assets
• Items that are not to be managed as assets
• Procuring assets
• Registering, tracking and reporting assets, and filing
• Asset donations
• Asset disposal
• Note on asset management and partnerships
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Fleet

• What's covered in this chapter?
• Definition of fleet
• Defining fleet needs
• Resourcing for fleet management (budget, procurement, HR)
• Vehicle usage
• Managing fleet
• Project closure: fleet disposal options
• Fleet audit trail
• British Red Cross domestic fleet management systems and procedures
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RLU stocks & ERUs

• What's covered in the RLU stocks chapter?
• British Red Cross global stock pre-positioning
• Stock management principles
• What's covered in the ERUs chapter?
• What are the ERUs?
• ERU human resources, ERU equipment and financial responsibilities
• Deploying an ERU
• Replenishing the ERU kits