CLTD Certification Review Course

Who Should Attend

The course is designed for proven professionals already working in logistics and/or transportation who are looking for an industry-backed credential to advance their careers. It's also perfect for individuals seeking an introduction to the supply chain industry.

How to Enroll

UTC's CLTD course is offered for both academic and non-academic credit. Whether you plan to complete the course for academic credit or not, you will still register for the course through UTC Center for Professional Education.

What You Will Learn

• The essential knowledge, vocabulary, processes, and frameworks needed to address challenges and opportunities within the industry
• The design and administration of systems to ensure proper positioning of material and information at the lowest total cost
• How to align logistics initiatives with business objectives to streamline operations and increase profits
• Best logistics practices to apply in organizations based on global standards
• How to boost productivity, collaboration, communication, and innovation within a supply chain team

Course Outline

The course content aligns with the CLTD Learning System.

Logistics Overview and Strategy

• Outlining the principles that make logistics useful, including economic drivers
• Understanding how logistics fits within supply chain management
• Managing logistics strategy, including the logistics value proposition
• Developing flexible logistics frameworks and collaborative relationships
• Exploring strategic-level risk management
• Using fundamental performance measurements and benchmarking
• Implementing reengineering and continuous improvement philosophies

Logistics Network Design

• Implementing a logistics network design process
• Considering transportation requirements driving logistics network plans
• Using tools and analyses to select node patterns and links
• Adopting risk management
• Planning for network security and business continuity

Sustainability and Reverse Logistics

• Understanding how logistics plays a key role in demonstrating organizational social responsibility
• Managing the triple bottom line, including carbon footprint reductions and green initiatives
• Selecting vendors based on sustainable practices
• Demonstrating responsibility when handling and managing hazardous and dangerous materials

Capacity Planning and Demand Management

• Understanding the basics of forecasting including various types of forecasts
• Shaping demand for logistics services
• Translating demand information into planning for transportation and warehousing capacity
• Providing input during S&OP and participating in collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment
• Planning for distribution requirements
• Managing supply, including ERP master scheduling
• Developing a process and selecting a purchasing strategy

Order Management

• Performing customer relationship management during order management activities
• Implementing CRM to strengthen relationships
• Meeting customer needs
• Achieving service levels according to customer demand
• Managing the process steps and logistics decision points of inbound, intracompany, and outbound order management

Inventory Management

• Understanding inventory management, planning, and control
• Contrasting stakeholder expectations for inventory management
• Summarizing the different functions or purposes inventory serves in a business
• Illustrating the major types of inventory costs
• Differentiating approaches to safety stock and determinations of when to order
• Performing calculations related to standard deviation, economic order quantity, and reorder points
• Describing lean, just-in-time, ABC, vendor-managed inventory, and other alternative approaches
• Listing common performance metrics

Warehouse Management

• Understanding warehousing strategies and determining which to use
• Considering physical aspects and tactics related to warehousing design
• Exploring warehousing challenges and trends
• Summarizing warehouse ownership types and functions
• Determining warehouse operations performance measures
• Diving deep into warehouse processes, layouts, materials handling, systems and automation, and packaging

Transportation

• Outlining transportation fundamentals including cost structure, stakeholders, capabilities, carrier types, mode classifications, and selection considerations
• Diving deep into the modes of transportation including road, rail, air, water, pipeline, intermodal, and parcel/courier
• Managing transportation according to guiding principles
• Considering tradeoffs when designing transportation networks, selecting carriers and modes, and planning routes and schedules

Global Logistics Considerations

• Examining current factors in the global logistics space
• Staying competitive while balancing cost and level of service
• Exploring the history of international trade theories and infrastructure
• Discussing global logistics performance indicators and trade specialists
• Complying with international trade regulations
• Preparing customs documentation
• Discussing finance, payment options, terms of sale, payment methods, currency issues, trade zones, and hedging

Exam Preparation and Details

Your journey to becoming certified begins with the CLTD Learning System, included with your registration for the course. The CLTD Learning System builds on existing strengths and deepens your understanding of supply chain management principles. The instructor-led class format helps you navigate concepts and enriches your learning.

The exam consists of 150 computer-based questions and takes approximately 3.5 hours.

The Learning System follows a three-part process of Assess, Study, Practice methedology to help you retain the information.

Assess

Measure your knowledge with the online assessment.

Study

Study the Learning System modules, flashcards, and practice quizzes.

Practice

Build confidence for exam day with a CLTD practice test.

Meet the Instructor

Andy Borchers, DBA, CPIM

Andy Borchers, DBA is a Professor of Management and Associate Dean of the College of Business at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. Before moving to Lipscomb in 2011, Andy spent 20 years in the auto industry and taught at Lawrence Technological University and Kettering University in Michigan. His teaching and research interests cover a broad range of topics including operations and supply chain management, enterprise systems, analytics, and environmental sustainability. Andy has published numerous academic articles and case studies in a variety of journals.