• Registration Deadline: 08/09/2025
  • Start date: 23/09/2025
  • Duration: 9 Weeks
  • Cost: €2,100 (Includes Skillnet ESF+ funding)
  • Delivery: Blended

Programme Overview

The Certified in Logistics, Transportation and Distribution (CLTD) programme has been designed by APICS to provide the skills necessary to understand and manage increasingly complex Supply Chain Networks from a practitioner’s perspective with particular emphasis on the make, deliver and return process.  

It combines transportation, logistics and distribution in a wide variety of settings. Building on your experience and previous SCM qualifications, achieving the APICS CLTD designation, will enhance and consolidate your supply chain management knowledge and expertise and provide you with an internationally recognised logistics, transportation and distribution certification. 

Learning Outcomes

By completing the CLTD programme, participants will:

  • Understand and apply logistics strategies aligned with business goals
  • Design efficient logistics networks and evaluate trade-offs
  • Integrate sustainable practices and manage reverse logistics
  • Forecast demand and plan capacity effectively
  • Streamline order management processes
  • Optimise inventory levels and control systems
  • Manage warehouse operations for efficiency and accuracy
  • Evaluate and select transportation modes and carriers
  • Navigate global logistics challenges, including customs and regulations
  • Prepare effectively for the APICS CLTD certification exam

Modules Covered 

  • Module 1: Logistics Overview and Strategy
  • Module 2: Logistics Network Design
  • Module 3: Sustainability and Reverse Logistics
  • Module 4: Capacity Planning and Demand Management
  • Module 5: Order Management
  • Module 6: Inventory Management
  • Module 7: Warehouse Management
  • Module 8: Transportation
  • Module 9: Global Logistics Considerations

Duration: 9 weeks (18 x 2-hour webinars)

Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays | 7:00 – 9:00PM (Dublin/London Time)

Delivery: Blended – Live Online Webinars, plus Online Access for 1 year to APICS CLTD e-Learning System

Exams and Certification

Exams: The exam must be taken within 12 months of the course start date, but IPICS recommend taking the exam 6-12 weeks post the course completion date. The exams can be taken in an Exam Centre (Many located throughout Ireland) or online at home/office overseen by a Proctor.  A free retake exam is available if needed and included in the price.  

Certification: The awarding body for certification is the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM). 

ESF+ Funding

Sustainable Enterprise Skillnet is co-funding places on this programme through ESF+ funding.

  • Funded places are limited and can only be granted to eligible learners, subject to availability. To be eligible, you must:
    • Be employed in the private sector in Republic of Ireland
    • You must complete the required ESF+ Profile Form (used to collect essential participant information required for ESF+ (European Social Fund Plus) funding compliance).
 
Participant Contact:
With ESF+ funding, there is a requirement for regular contact between you and Sustainable Enterprise Skillnet, participants will be contacted at three key points:
  • Before the course begins (To complete the required ESF+ Profile Form)
  • Within four weeks after course completion (For feedback, progress and status reporting)
  • Six months following the course (For progress and status reporting)
Your timely participation at all stages is essential to maintain eligibility.
 
Registration and Access Requirements:
Once your registration on the Sustainable Enterprise Skillnet website is received and your eligibility is verified, you will receive two items via email:
  1. Microsoft ESF+ Forms Profile form
  2. payment link – Full payment is made at least five working days prior to the start of the programme.
Both must be completed in order to gain access to the course.

For more information contact us at sustainableenterpriseskillnet@20fiftypartners.com or call +353-(0)61-535440.

 

This Sustainable Enterprise Skillnet programme is cofunded by the Government of Ireland, the European Union, and network companies. www.eufunds.ie