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This practical course supports employees in developing the confidence and numeracy required to carry out everyday tasks across warehousing, routing, fuel costing, and safe loading.

What the course covers:
- Calculations for receiving orders: multiplication, division, percentages, fractions, data     handling
- Route planning and vehicle efficiency: speed, distance, fuel cost and averages
- Warehouse operations: perimeter, area, volume, scale and ratio
 - Delivery safety: load capacity, forklift de-rating and preventing overload fines

Benefits for Employees:
- Improved confidence in using maths at work
- Better understanding of workplace data, forms, and schedules
- Practical problem-solving and decision-making skills
- CPD-recognised and relevant to real-life logistics scenarios

Benefits for Employers:
- Increased Accuracy and Efficiency: Employees will gain practical skills to reduce errors in order processing, inventory calculations, and route planning, leading to more streamlined operations.
- Improved Operational Productivity: Staff will be able to work more independently and make quicker, data-informed decisions, minimising delays and improving overall throughput.
- Reduced Costs and Waste: Understanding fuel usage, load limits, and storage calculations helps reduce unnecessary expenditure and improves cost-efficiency across the supply chain.
- Enhanced Workplace Safety: With better knowledge of safe loading, forklift de-rating, and weight distribution, staff can reduce the risk of accidents, penalties, and damaged goods.
- Stronger Compliance and Record-Keeping: Improved numeracy supports accurate completion of delivery records, fuel logs, stock reports, and other essential documentation.
- Employee Engagement and Retention: Offering meaningful professional development demonstrates a commitment to upskilling staff, which can boost morale, loyalty, and retention.
- Immediate Workplace Application: The skills developed are directly applicable to everyday tasks in warehousing, transport, and logistics – ensuring an immediate return on training investment.- Flexible and Minimal Disruption: With a short, three-hour delivery model, the course can be fitted around shift patterns or quieter periods, reducing impact on productivity.
- Customisable to Your Operations: Delivered online, content can be contextualised to reflect your business needs, ensuring the training is relevant and impactful.
- Flexible, Targeted Delivery: The course is delivered in one three-hour session, Monday to Friday from 09:30 to 12:30 or 13:30 to 16:30

Learning Objectives

The aim of this course is to empower employees working in the logistics sector with practical, job-specific mathematical skills that can be applied immediately in their current roles. The content is contextualised to the logistics environment, ensuring relevance and direct application to day-to-day tasks such as receiving goods, route planning, fuel costing, warehouse calculations, and safe vehicle loading.

This 3-hour course has been designed to:
•	Strengthen core numeracy skills and boost confidence in using Maths at work.
•	Address real-world logistics challenges through practical calculations.
•	Equip learners with the ability to work more efficiently and make accurate, informed decisions.
•	Meet employer Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements by upskilling staff in a short, focused format.
•	Support inclusive learning for employees of all backgrounds through clear explanations, interactive activities, and online delivery.

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This course is part of our Skills Development Service.

To be eligible for this training, you must be:

•	19 years old or over 
•	Employed, volunteering or an unpaid worker.
•	Have the right to live and work in the UK. 
•	You must not already have achieved a level 2 qualification, in this subject, in the last 3 years.

This support is available for those living in Greater Manchester or one of the neighbouring areas. These include parts of Lancashire, Derbyshire, Merseyside, West Yorkshire, and Cheshire – your eligibility will be checked by one of our Skills Coaches.

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