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Developing the skills base of the UK’s Logistics Businesses.

The National Logistics Partnership has a pedigree of providing business improvement solutions through workforce training and development to logistics and distribution businesses.

Working in consultation and partnership with your business NLP will ensure that your employee development programmes meets your business needs-aligned with your business plan, structure and culture.

“Learning should be business improvement led” is our philosophy

The NLP solution

• A national solution – NLP specialise in working with large multi site businesses across the UK. With the ability to provide training and assessment resources anywhere in the UK. NLP make perfect national training partner.

• An expert solution – NLP will advise you on how your employee development programmes can best meet business needs and fulfil legislative and industry standards.

• A funding solution – NLP can match your company’s development needs, even your existing training and development programmes, to nationally recognised qualifications that attract significant funding support.

The National Logistics Partnership support model

NLP can work with your business to design and develop a workforce development programme or it can assist you in structuring your in-house programmes to meet the requirements of national vocational standards.

In addition NLP can provide you with the resources needed to deliver your employee development programme. The range of support will depend on your business needs and, indeed, what.

Fully outsourced:

NLP will provide your business with the expertise to design, develop and or map your development programme against national vocational standards. In addition NLP will provide you with fully qualified and experience trainers and assessors to deliver and manage your programme.

Fully embedded:

NLP will assist you in the development of your in-house programme and work with you to develop your own people to deliver and assess your employees. Where require NLP can assist your people in the development of training skills and the achievement of the NVQ assessor award.

Part embedded:

Alternatively we can mix and match our resources to provide you with the optimum delivery team. For example you may wish to use in-house trainers but have NLP provide vocational assessors.

Nationally recognised qualifications

By linking your employee development programmes to nationally recognised qualifications, such as National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ’s). NLP can provide your business with a learning framework that provides.

• structure to your workforce development programme
• recognition and reward to your employees and the resulting benefit of increase employee loyalty
• the ability to access funding grants and subsidies to offset the cost of delivery NLP can even assist you in matching your own current or planned in house training and assessment programmes against an NVQ framework

Driver Training and Development

NLP driver development programmes are underpinned by qualifications in Driving Goods Vehicles and Carry and Deliver Goods. Both of which are nationally recognised qualifications accredited by Skills for Logistics and City & Guilds.

NLP driver development programmes deliver quantifiable and measurable business benefits, including:

• Improved levels of customer service and satisfaction
• Increased fuel efficiency
• Reductions in accident rates / reduced insurance premiums
• The development of business wide quality benchmarks
• Increased staff retention due to the company investing in their driving workforce

Programmes that comply with the Driver CPC regulations

With the new EU regulations coming into place for drivers in 2009, NLP has developed a nationally recognised programme that will embed driver CPC modules into a national vocational qualification.

Driver development programmes can also include:

• SAFED
• Alcohol and drug awareness
• Defensive driving techniques
• Health & Safety and manual handling training
• Customer service

Warehouse and Distribution Centre Training and Development

NLP warehouse development programmes are underpinned by qualifications in Warehousing and Storage. This qualification is a nationally recognised qualification accredited by Skills for Logistics and City & Guilds.

NLP warehousing development programmes deliver quantifiable and measurable business benefits, including:

• Improved Health & Safety compliance
• Improved levels of customer service and satisfaction
• Cost savings due to the reduction in picking errors and returns
• Cost savings due to the reduction of damaged goods and infrastructure in the warehouse
• Improvements in warehouse efficiency due to employees understanding company storage procedures and processes better
• Improvements in warehouse efficiency due to employees operating specialised plant and machinery in a safer and more effective manner

As part of the Warehousing and Storage qualification NLP can support a range of customised learning activities including:

• Introduction to business improvement techniques
• Communication techniques
• Team working exercises
• Alcohol and drug awareness sessions
• Additional Health & Safety training, manual handling training
• Customer service training

Other NLP Programmes

• Carry and Deliver Goods
• Driving Goods Vehicles
• Traffic Office
• Warehousing and Storage
• Driver CPC

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