(i)  Meaning and importance of store keeping;

(ii)  Components of Store Keeping:

–   warehousing;

–  requisition;

–  inventory and inventory control.

(iii)  Areas where store keeping is required.

1.2  Career Opportunities:

(i)  Definition

(ii)  Job opportunities

(iii)  factors influencing choice of career in store keeping

(iv)  Skills required for store keeping:

–          numerical

–          administrative

–          computer

1.3   Roles, Attributes and Qualification of a Store Keeper:

(i)                 Functions of a Store Keeper:

–          receipt of goods;

–          store requisition;

–          store issues;

–          counting and grading;

–          weighting and classification;

–          record keeping;

–          Maintaining clean store environment

(ii)               Attributes of a store keeper:

–           Honesty;

–          Quality consciousness;

–          Flair for details, etc.

(iii)             Qualification of a store keeper.

2.2  Uses of storage equipment;

2.3  Care of storage equipment and facilities.

3.2  Forms of warehousing (room, cold room, silos).

3.3  Factors for setting up a warehouse.

3.4  Store keeping Document.

3.5  Government regulations on warehousing:

–   NAFDAC.

–  SON.

4.2  Importance

4.3  Procedure

4.4  Documentation (requisition and issue notes)

4.5  E-requisitioning (use of computer)

(i)  Meaning;

(ii)  Uses of inventory;

(iii) Inventory items;

(iv) Types of inventory control (perpetual and periodic);

(v)  Store keeping terms and their computation:

–  stock out

–   lead time

–  maximum stock level

–  minimum stock level

–  economic order quantity

6.2  Reasons for stock valuation.

6.3  Determination of stock values using:

–   LIFO method

–   FIFO method

7.2  Classification of materials in store.

7.3  Codification system:

–   alphabetic

–  numerical

–  alphanumeric

–  decimal

(i)  Meaning;

(ii)  Importance;

(iii)  Store layout

(iv)   Factors influencing store layout.

8.2  Safety and Safety Standard:

(i)  Meaning of safety in store;

(ii)  Importance of safety at work;

(iii) Methods of providing safety at work place:

–          First  Aid Box

–          Fire extinguisher

–          Shielding of electrical installation

–          Safety wear, Types and uses (gloves, boots and helmets)

–          Health and safety at work Act

8.3  Environmental Issue:

(1)  Meaning ,importance of environment;

(ii)   Characteristics of a good environment.

9.2  importance of entrepreneurship.

9.3  Entrepreneurship skills:

–  managerial

–  accounting

–  marketing

–  promotion

9.4  Idea generation.

9.5  Feasibility study.

9.6  Writing a proposal on a type of business in store keeping.