Thinking of becoming a certified P.Log. [Professional Logistician]?
A P.Log certification program provides you with transferable skills, valuable perspectives, industry knowledge, practical tools and techniques – comprehensively providing a unique skills portfolio to increase your personal value proposition. Industry recognized and respected, the P.Log is the key to career mobility.
Do you have what it takes to be a P.Log?
P.Log: Professional Logistician
Earning the P.Log designation is a public statement of your leadership, competence and credibility, and your competitive advantage in the supply chain and logistics community. It is a recognition of your skills, knowledge and aptitude to lead.
The P.Log is a leader:
- Who transforms organizations as a change agent and builds capabilities in others to implement change;
- With competitive edge to create customer value, and with competence as a supply chain logistics practitioner to sustain that value; and
- With the self-confidence to make difficult decisions and accept responsibility for the consequences of those decisions.
How can you earn the P.Log?
Through any one of the programs listed below. Each program has a track or topic of interest, which you can use as your specialization towards earning this designation.
Each program is competency-based; each program is a challenge; each learning resource tests your capability to work effectively, lead within the context of work responsibilities, and thereby become a certified professional. Your true achievement is not a score on an examination but the peer-to-peer recognition that validates your capacity to lead and your self-confidence to apply in the workplace the skills and aptitudes sharpened in the programs.
About the Programs
COMPETENCY-BASED LEARNING: The principles guiding the training mandate of the Logistics Institute are:
- Leaders initiate and manage change
- Change is driven by values to succeed
- Success builds on competence
- Competence is global supply chain logistics
What you “learn” in an Institute program, you apply in the workplace and to your career.
Programs for P.Log Certification
There are six program pathways to earn the P.Log Designation. They can broadly be categorized as strategic pathways, management pathways, and tactical pathways.
Choosing the best pathway for yourself will depend on where you want to go and what you want to achieve – your career progression. Recommendations are provided for each path. These are not an absolute guide, but suggestions that you might want to consider when choosing a program that’s right for you.
There are three different strategic pathways to the P.Log, ideal for candidates with strategic responsibilities such as:
- Strategic responsibility for inter-organizational relationships along complex supply chains focused on customer value creation
- Inter-Organizational responsibility to develop and manage vendor networks and distribution channels to sustain customer strategies
Suggested experience-level (in or aspiring for): Vice-Presidents, Senior Directors, Directors, Senior Managers
The topics that cover strategic leadership competencies are:
There are two pathways to the P.Log under this tier, ideal for candidates with management responsibilities. For example,
- Inter-Organizational responsibility to develop and manage vendor networks and distribution channels to sustain customer strategies
- Process responsibility to integrate internal operations in procurement, inventory management, distribution and transportation management
Suggested experience Level (in or aspiring for): Senior Managers, Managers, Senior Supervisors, Supervisors, Analysts, Specialists
Program topics are:
PROCESS MANAGEMENT
This program helps you develop process management skills that make you more effective in contributing to your company’s success, with a goal to deliver value to customers, by optimizing unique supply chains that differentiate your company from competitors. The program provides an essential mindset that looks at systems as a whole, and builds analytical and critical thinking capabilities.
Through this program, you earn the P.Log, specializing as a Professional in Process Management.
Main Competency Focus:
- Supply Chain Management
- Leadership & Collaboration
- Analytical Thinking
Toolkit Includes:
- Process Management
- Process Mapping
- Decision-making skills
Ideal for you if: you are looking to boost your process management and SCL excellence capabilities, while focusing on your own career growth and success by rounding off your interpersonal and business expertise competencies and skills.
SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
This program helps you build a strategic toolkit to manage supplier relationships using techniques and strategies to maximize your influence and leadership. It further looks at Supply Chain Logistics Ecosystems in terms of Competitive Advantage and Value Creation, exploring the dynamics that contribute to your company’s competitive advantage.
Through this program, you earn the P.Log, specializing as a Professional in Supplier Relationship Management.
Main Competency Focus:
- Supplier Relationships
- Leadership & Influence
- Customer Value Creation
Toolkit Includes:
- Stakeholder Mapping
- Leadership Strategies
- SCL Eco-system Mapping
Ideal for you if: you are responsible for your organization’s supplier base, and looking to enhance your leadership and influencing skills to drive SCL excellence, while focusing on your own career growth and success by rounding off your interpersonal and business expertise competencies and skills.
This pathway to the P.Log is ideal for candidates in frontline/supervisory positions looking to enhance their skills portfolio, senior practitioners looking to start by establishing a baseline knowledge of frontline operations, or experienced candidates starting a new career in the SCL industry.
Consider this pathway if you have/are seeking:
- Process responsibility to integrate internal operations in procurement, inventory management, distribution and transportation management
- Functional responsibility for core tactical operations in purchasing, inventory control, order processing, materials management, warehousing, distribution, transportation
Suggested experience level: Analysts, Specialists, Supervisors, Frontline operators (Material handlers, shippers/receivers, order clerks, schedulers)
This pathway to the P.Log. leads first to earning the LS Designation, which is a stepping stone to the P.Log.
This two-step program pathway creates a foundation for of baseline knowledge in the fundamentals of logistics and supply chain management, enhancing your understanding of essential SCL concepts, and providing a tactical ready-to-use problem-solving toolkit. Moving further down the P.Log path, it builds process management capabilities with interpersonal and collaborative skills.
LOGISTICS SPECIALIST PROGRAM
This program helps you in developing skills to promote customer value creation by optimizing each link in business operations and along global supply chains, with specific focus on operational management and micro-forecasting. Using immersive learning experiences, you focus on organizational processes, systems and decision factors. Lastly, you use a case study to practice the application of a problem-solving tool.
Main Competency Focus:
- Logistics management
- Problem-solving leadership and analytical thinking
- Network design knowledge
Toolkit Includes
- An understanding of the importance of integrated logistics network design for customer value creation
- Systems and analytical thinking using a supply chain simulation to identify pitfalls in the supply chain network
- Acquiring a practical, useable problem-solving toolkit honed through case-study learning
STEP 2: ADVANCED STANDING
Completing the LS Program and earning the LS designation gives you advanced standing towards earning the P.Log via the Process Management Program.
Continuing down this pathway, this program further helps you develop process management skills that make you more effective in contributing to your company’s success, with a goal to deliver value to customers, by optimizing unique supply chains that differentiate your company from competitors. The program provides an essential mindset that looks at systems as a whole, and builds analytical and critical thinking capabilities.
LS designation holders are exempt from two out of the seven modules in the Process Management program, and must complete five modules.