Logistics and Agro Supply chain management – AAI 184

Introduction

This course is one of the 5 courses in the Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship Program (FEP). It enlightens the trainee generally on Agro Processing Machinery that is used for processing crops grown in Africa for industrial feedstock, food crops and export, as well as storage facilities for finished products.   The course then touches on Logistics systems for Agro distribution and export and subsequently focuses on Agro supply chain management as it applies to agricultural value chain.  This course will empower and up skill the Agro entrepreneur or Agro Supply chain manager to succeed.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the basics of technology driven Logistics management, product distribution and delivery services.
• Understand the Food processing plants for our staple crops, their functional description and working principles.
• Gain insight into Supply chain management with a focus on Agri Supply chain management.
• Gain insight into Agro storage facilities and methods applicable for industrial processing and export

Course Target Audience

This course is designed for mainly graduates from any Engineering departments or any discipline of study with interest in Agro Production, Processing, distribution and Export. The course is also suitable for owners of food processing businesses that seek to upgrade to small or medium scale modernized production methods, especially in a cooperative structure, for collaboration, wider market reach to local and international markets and increased profitability. 

Delivery Methods and Training Time table:

This course is delivered both online and live all grouped in a monthly batch. The online option is registered as a single course taken on a self-paced mode. The live option is registered under FEP and delivered as a 1 day crash course by a tutor.  The FEP course series is made up of 5 Crash courses with a total duration of 1 week. Non – resident participants can join the FEP live class by Google meets or Zoom live. A Slack channel also serves as virtual classroom and means of communication with other trainees and the tutor for both online and live trainees registered in each monthly batch.

Enterprise Benefits 

This course can be taken as a single course that meets the up-skilling need of the individual or corporate sponsor. The Course can also be taken as part of our Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship Program (FEP) Course Series which comes with   internship. The knowledge gained from this course can benefit your organization in many ways such as:

• The course will sharpen the Technical skills and productivity of your staff, translating to higher profitability for you.
• The training develops the problem solving abilities of trainees, which they can apply in your business operations.
• The Product knowledge they gain is a critical job skill that will enable them support Business development for you.
• The aspiring startup will be prepared to handle logistics challenges associated with startups.  

Industry Affiliations

Orisson SET is a division of Bullion Offshore Contracting Ltd (BOCL). Orisson SET has industry affiliations with companies locally and internationally both directly and through BOCL. We also maintain relationship with financial institutions for Startup finance. These affiliations enable us to give the trainees the employability guarantee which promises to link trainees to organizations and cooperatives where they can have internship opportunities or a direct employment after their training. Some of our industry affiliations are:

• Bullion Offshore Contracting Ltd
• Maxi trust Micro finance bank
• Angel investors and Venture capitalists
• Ai Crane
• Taraba Shipyard
• I Jerome Engineering Ltd (Shipyard)
• T & G Ltd
• Moses & Sons Machine shop
• TL Ltd.
• Various manufacturing factories
• Etc.