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Certifying Body: Association for Supply Chain Management

The APICS Certified in Logistics, Transportation, and Distribution (CLTD) credential is designed to equip professionals with the skills to tackle current and future supply chain challenges. Developed with input from industry experts, the CLTD certification sets the global standard for best practices in logistics, transportation, and distribution.

Launched in 2016, the CLTD program is ideal for those working in or aspiring to enter the logistics industry, helping professionals enhance their organisation’s logistics function. The certification provides a wealth of knowledge, research, and industry standards, making it a valuable asset for logistics, shipping, and distribution professionals.

The APICS CLTD certification helps address industry skills shortages, supports businesses in building capable teams, and positively impacts organisational performance. With KnoWerX facilitating CLTD exam preparation, candidates gain access to comprehensive study materials covering all aspects of the certification.

The CLTD program helps professionals deepen their knowledge across various logistics topics, setting them apart from peers and increasing their value within their organisations. It is an excellent choice for those seeking to advance in logistics, mass transit, and distribution management, providing the tools needed to gain a competitive edge in the market.

Benefits of APICS CLTD Certification

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The CLTD Learning System is divided into 9 Modules

CLTD Modules

Module 1: 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 re-engineering and continuous improvement philosophies
Module 2: 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
Module 3: 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
Module 4: 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, andreplenishment
  • Planning for distribution requirements
  • Managing supply, including ERP master scheduling
  • Developing a process and selecting a purchasing strategy
Module 5: 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
Module 6: 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
Module 7: 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
Module 8: 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
Module 9: Global Logistics
  • 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
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is APICS CLTD certification?

APICS CLTD certification is a professional certification offered by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), now known as ASCM. The Certified in Logistics, Transportation, and Distribution course is designed to improve the knowledge and skill set of those who manage transportation, logistics, and distributions within an organisation. With this certification, professionals will learn the core principles and methods used to effectively manage supply chains in their organisation and scale operations even on a global scale. The coursework will cover topics such as procurement, supplier relationships, inventory management, demand planning, order fulfilment, material handling, warehousing, international trade compliance, freight management, channel development, customer service management, and much more. The APICS CLTD certification will provide deep insight into how these topics are interconnected in order to support organisational goals.

How can one benefit from ASCM Certification?

Benefits to Companies:

  • Helps employees master advanced supply chain management principles that extend beyond an organization’s internal end-to-end operations from suppliers to customers.
  • Provides a higher level of skills and knowledge needed to streamline business operations and produce bottom-line results.

Benefits to an Individual:

  • Provides candidates with all the necessary tools to effectively manage global supply chain processes and activities.
  • Enables them to implement best practices in the industry to increase supply chain efficiency.
  • Allows more credibility and recognition at your workplace.
Which ASCM certification should I opt for?
  • If you are looking for entry Level Certification OR a certification to update your knowledge in the inventory and production field, ASCM CPIM is the best. It covers Plan, Source and Making. Refer to the CPIM brochure to know more.
  • If you want to make a career in logistics, plan for ASCM CLTD certification. It covers Delivery and Return within the organization. Refer to the ASCM CLTD brochure to know more.
  • If you want to learn about end-to-end operations management, attempt ASCM CSCP It covers the entire spectrum of the supply chain beyond the four walls of the organization.
  • When professionals (In the Top or Higher Middle-level management category) have a project to re-engineer or re-structure the supply chain of company, then every participant who is a part of the project should be SCOR-DS certified. Refer to the ASCM SCOR-DS brochure to learn more.
  • If you are looking for best practices, knowledge, skills, and abilities to initiate and enact supply chain transformation. ASCM CTSC includes transformation fundamentals and global logistics, including risk management and sustainability logistics. Refer to the ASCM CTSC brochure to know more.
In Which industries Supply Chain is important?

Today, supply chain exists in almost all the fields. The list is quite vast. To name a few…

  • Manufacturing companies E-Retail
  • Technology Food & Beverage
  • Shipping
  • Automotive
  • Fashion
  • Healthcare Oil and Gas
  • E-Commerce, and so on.
Is the certificate known globally?

Yes, APICS/ASCM Certifications are recognized globally.

Do I have to be an ASCM Member to pursue a certification?

Being an ASCM member, you get discounts on the course components on the ASCM exams, learning system and Bundles.

Modes and terms of payment?
  • You can make the payment either through Net Banking or Credit Card.
  • Payment Terms: i. 100% Advance ii. Instalments
Is it possible to pay fees in EMIs?

Yes, you can. Kindly connect with our sales team for further assistance on the same.

What is the Exam Pattern and Scoring?

Pattern: The Online exam is for 3.5 hours, and a participant needs to attempt 150 multiple choice questions and no negative marking. The result is prompted within few seconds of completing the Exam.

Score: The CPIM exam score range is 200-350. A minimum score of 300 or higher is required to pass the examination. Any score of 299 or below is termed as failed or not pass.

Where can I attempt or give the Exam?
  • You can take exams across the globe at the PearsonVUE exam and test centres.
  • You can search for a convenient location and as per schedule your exam.
What is the validity of all certificates?

APICS/ASCM Certificates are valid for 5 years. Within these 5 years a candidate must earn and submit 75 points to renew certificate for another 5 years. For more information on the rules and policies on maintaining certification, please visit https://www.ascm.org/learning-development/certifications-credentials/certification-maintenance.

Will I get a job, an increment or a promotion after completing APICS certification?

APICS certifications help you increase your knowledge, like any other qualification, in management stream. So, it should lead to a new job, an increment or a promotion but this cannot be said with certainty as they sway heavily in both, the positive and negative directions. The changes in demand and supply equation of skilled Man-power in the job market can affect your career advancement. However, salary surveys done by APICS in the US in the past show that APICS-certified professionals tend to earn more salary on average than non-certified professionals in the same role, proving a higher Preference for APICS-certified professionals in the Industry. Therefore, it can be confirmed that on average, Professionals certified in APICS are preferred over non-certified professionals in the relevant fields. This should in turn lead to better opportunities for you on completion of the course, compared to others, in the job market, increments and promotions, in the relevant job roles and career pathways.

Should I take training or not?

Training is always beneficial for certifications. You can always connect with the instructor for any doubts or queries related to the study material and have a smooth process towards your exams. KnoWerx instructors have more than 35 years of experience and the passing ratio of KnoWerX candidates is 90%, and too in first attempt.

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