How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer iCan Qualifications Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and iCan Qualifications Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from iCan Qualifications Limited.

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01What it is

This qualification covers the principles of warehousing and storage. It is intended for those working, or intending to work, in the warehousing and distribution sector. Learners will develop an understanding of receiving and storing goods, stock control, and order processing.

These are the units iCan Qualifications Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with iCan Qualifications Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. iCan Qualifications Limited sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Customer service in warehousing and storage Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit highlights the importance of effective customer service in warehousing and storage environments. You'll explore the impact of customer service on organisational success and learn methods to meet customer expectations effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of effective customer service
Introduction to warehousing and storage Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
You'll gain an understanding of the warehousing and storage sector, including the roles of different organisations and the functions of warehouses within the supply chain. The unit also covers the importance of health and safety practices in this sector.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the warehousing and storage sector
  • Understand the functions and benefits of warehousing
  • Understand health and safety in the warehousing and storage sector
Understand how to check stock and update records in warehousing and storage Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
You'll understand the purpose of stock checks and learn methods for accurately checking stock levels and updating records. The unit also emphasises health and safety considerations during stock checking in a warehousing environment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the purpose and importance of conducting regular stock checks.
  • Understand how stock levels are checked accurately and how records are updated effectively.
  • Understand the relevant health and safety requirements in the context of checking stock in a warehousing environment.
Understand how to process orders and prepare them for dispatch Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit provides learners with the knowledge to process customer orders for dispatch, including verifying order details, packaging goods appropriately, and generating dispatch documentation. Health and safety requirements during order processing and dispatch are also covered.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to process customer orders for dispatch
  • Understand how to package goods for dispatch
  • Understand health and safety requirements in the context of processing orders and dispatching goods
Understand how to receive and store goods Real unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
This unit covers the procedures for receiving goods into storage, including checking deliveries against documentation and reporting discrepancies. You'll also understand correct storage methods and health and safety requirements in goods handling.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the procedures for receiving goods into storage areas.
  • Understand the correct methods for storing different types of goods.
  • Understand the health and safety requirements that apply when receiving and storing goods.
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Receive and store duty suspended and duty paid excise goods

    Standard
  • Receive and store medicinal products in a warehouse environment to comply with the requirements of Good Distribution Practice

    Standard
  • Undertake stock checks and record the results in logistics facilities

    Standard
04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by iCan Qualifications Limited rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Customer service in warehousing and storageIntroduction to warehousing and storageUnderstand how to check stock and update records in warehousing and storageUnderstand how to process orders and prepare them for dispatchUnderstand how to receive and store goods

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Practical Builder The Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration
The Practical Builder Paste in the draft you have for “Understand how to check stock and update records in warehousing and storage”. Not a tidied one, the one you would actually send.
You It is mostly there. The recommendations section is thin.
The Practical Builder Thin is fine, vague is not. Take recommendation two and tell me who does what by when, then we will see if it survives.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Draft the real one Create

    You do “Understand how to check stock and update records in warehousing and storage” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.

What you leave holding

The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them

Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.

See Your Progress Grow Illustration
iCQ Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Warehousing and Storage
  • Receive and store duty suspended and duty paid excise goods
  • Receive and store medicinal products in a warehouse environment to comply with the requirements of Good Distribution Practice
  • Undertake stock checks and record the results in logistics facilities
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Customer service in warehousing and storage, one of this qualification's own units.

Customer service in warehousing and storage Level 2

Applied to your own work

This unit highlights the importance of effective customer service in warehousing and storage environments. Learners will explore the impact of customer service on organisational success and learn methods to meet customer expectations effectively.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for iCQ Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Warehousing and Storage

5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by iCan Qualifications Limited.

  1. Customer service in warehousing and storage
  2. Introduction to warehousing and storage
  3. Understand how to check stock and update records in warehousing and storage
  4. Understand how to process orders and prepare them for dispatch
  5. Understand how to receive and store goods
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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