By completing this program, participants will earn the P.Log [Professional Logistician] designation.
The P.Log. is a public statement of credibility and competence in global supply chain and logistics.
The Process Management certification program is holistic in approach: it combines personal development with professional development to give you a unique skills portfolio. The program integrates supply chain & logistics business expertise with leadership & soft skills and capabilities.
- This is an online program, and consists of six modules followed by a Qualifier module.
- Five of the six modules are self-directed, and one of the six modules is facilitated and group-based.
- Each module has an average time commitment of four hours per week, within the time allotted for it. Time allotted ranges from 4 weeks to 12 weeks.
- The certification process must be completed within two years (can be achieved earlier as well).
- There are no pre-requisites for enrolling in this program.
- A minimum of 5 years overall business experience is required at the time of completion and certification (experience acquired while taking the program will be accepted).
- Program Start Date: a new cohort starts on the 1st of every month.
CERTIFICATION MODULES
The program has two tracks that must be completed followed by a Capstone:
- Supply Chain and Logistics: 3 modules
- Leadership: 3 modules
- Capstone Module: to be completed after both tracks are completed
TRACK 1: Supply Chain & Logistics
Logistics Process Diagnostics
This module uses a supply chain simulation to concentrate on the structural, functional and operational aspects of making logistics decisions.
With the intent to reduce non‐good quality costs to zero, we will focus on:
- How to design the optimal network
- How to carry out quality demand management
- How to continuously improve internal/external supply chain processes which lead to the right logistics decisions
- Which trade-offs to weigh between transportation, warehousing and inventory costs
Supply Chain Business Strategies
This module refocuses SCL Ecosystems in terms of Competitive Advantage and Value Creation, exploring key dynamics that contribute to competitive advantage. Content is designed to help participants meet the challenges of 21st Century SCL eco-systems.
Key topics include:
- COMPETITION:
Strategic POV: Competitive Advantage
Supply Chain Logistics: Competitive Advantage
Competitive Capabilities: Market Dynamics
E-Commerce and e-Supply Chain Logistics
Disruption: Amazon Effect - Value
Strategic Perspectives
Customer Perspectives
Market Perspectives
Trade-off Perspectives
This is a self-directed module: Participants will go through a series of video lectures on the topic, and will build a comprehensive portfolio using the workbook provided.
Supply Chain Leadership Strategies
This module focuses SCL Ecosystems on Being Organizationally Responsible and accepting 21st Leadership Challenges
Key topics include:
- Responsible Organizations
Contextual Foundations
Business Engagement Architecture
Dynamics of Responsible Supply Chain Logistics: Flow, Capability, Discipline
Circular Economy: Reverse Logistics - Leadership Challenges
Contextual Foundations
Capacity to Lead
Market Dynamics: Disruptive Innovation
Disrupting SCL: Big Data
Contextual Leadership
Leading Through Action
Leadership Decision Tools
This is a self-directed module: Participants will go through a series of video lectures on the topic, and will build a comprehensive portfolio using the workbook provided.
TRACK 2: Leadership
Leading to Succeed
This module uses cases, diagnostic tools and simulations to enhance your strategic decision-making skills. It leads you to develop helpful concepts in terms of leading organizations and implementing change. Learning objectives include:
- Key topics for 21st century leadership skills development: Sustainability, Organizational Resistance, Being a Change Agent.
- Three key concepts of leadership are addressed: Power, Influence and Action
- The simulation gives you hands-on experiential skills by putting you directly into the multiple complex issues that companies face when dealing with shifting market demands.
This is a self-directed module: participants will go through the simulation, and create a Leadership Portfolio using the analytical exercises provided in a workbook.
Values-Based Leadership
This module explores how values are intertwined in our decision-making. An overall conceptual framework will guide this exploration of the many facets of professional ethics:
- recognizing the influences of values on corporate behavior
- learning why people behave unethically and how to balance ethics and the “bottom line”
This module uses journaling to deliver the learning outcomes: self-reflective exercises help you create a toolkit for critical decision-making guiding-principles for yourself to use through all stages of your career.
Additionally, it highlights the importance of credibility in ethical leadership, how to lead teams with multiple perspectives and different viewpoints, and provides tools you can use to do the right/good thing in difficult situations.
This is a self-directed module: participants will work through the course material and build a toolkit portfolio using the workbook provided.
Team Dynamics
Designed to develop practical skills for teamwork and communication in 21st century supply chain eco-systems, this experiential learning module uses a simulated team environment, followed by a real team working virtually as a group.
The simulated team introduces team dynamics and their effect on the work or project at hand. These concepts are then applied and experienced directly in the real-team environment. Learning outcomes include:
- team-based decision making skills
- importance and process of enhancing trust and interpersonal relationships on a team
- conflict resolution on a team
- leadership skills required for team success
- contextual leadership: how a team can deal with change and develop a new-strategy ‘mid-stream’
You will be assigned to a team, and will work with your team and a facilitator to engage in team dynamics real time, while working on assignments related to team communication skills.
Facilitated sessions are held once a week: on a weeknight from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. EST.
CAPSTONE QUALIFIER
Integrated Logistics Networks
This module focuses on the importance of optimizing each link in the supply chain to promote customer value creation. It explores the following key aspects of modern day integrated logistics networks:
- How an appropriate distribution channel can be selected for an organization
- How to decide upon the appropriate trade-offs between transportation, warehousing and inventory costs in the logistics supply chain using modeling techniques
- The role that Activity Based Costing can play in improving logistics processes
- Forecasting and the principles of demand management
- Creating relationships between demand and inventory
- Develop the ability to employ a continuous improvement toolkit
This is a self-directed module: participants will read through the content and take a multiple-choice test at the end.
REGISTRATION
Participants can register in the full program, one track, or an individual module.
- An official tax receipt will be issued for income tax purposes for the program fees paid, as allowed by the CRA.
- Our program team will work with you on coordinating your schedule for this program after your first module is completed.
- Participants can take breaks between modules, or continue to work through them at your own pace.
P.Log Designation
All professional designations are owned and maintained by the Logistics Community of Interest under the stewardship of the Logistics Institute. Professional designations are registered trademarks of the Logistics Institute.
The P.Log™ designation belongs to the Logistics Institute as a trademarked asset. P.Log™ professionals are members of the Logistics Institute. Earning the P.Log™ designation entails successful completion of the Process Management program, which is designed to meet the certification requirements set by the Professional Review Board of the Logistics Institute. All program content is developed and owned by The Logistics Institute.
Designations must be renewed on an annual basis for continued use of the trademark. The professional year for all designations runs from November 1 – October 31.
| Annual Professional Fee | $495.00 |