Certified International Trade,

Shipping & Logistics Professional

(CITLP)
 CITLP Modules
Certified International Trade, Shipping & Logistics Professional
Logistics and Supply Chain Concepts
Forecasting & Planning
Inventory Management
Warehouse Management & Material Handling
Customer Service
Purchasing Management
Transportation Management
International Trade
Reverse Logistics & Sustainability
Logistics & Supply
Chain Concepts
Basic Supply Chain for a Product
Three entities and four flows

Information flow

Supplier Producer Customer

Primary product flow

Primary cash flow

Reverse product flow

 Vertical Integration
Integrated
Integrated automotive company:
automotive Benefits of vertical integration
ownership,
company:management,
ownership,
marketing/sales,
management,finance
marketing No dealing with competitors for
supplies, etc.
Showroom Customer
Enhanced visibility into operations
Distribution
Control
Plant Primary Same ownership and
materials/ management for all activities in
Component product flow supply chain
production

Raw materials
Lateral Integration
Information flow

Raw Components Plant Distribution Retail Customers

materials

Primary product flows Primary cash flows

Benefits of lateral integration

Economies of scale and scope
Improved business focus
Leveraging communication and
production competencies
Manufacturing Supply Chain Model
Information flow
Tier 2 materials
supplier
Tier 1 materials
Customer
supplier
Tier 2 materials Distributor
supplier
Customer
Tier 2 service Tier 1 materials
supplier supplier
Manufacturer

Customer
Tier 2 materials
supplier Distributor
Tier 1 service
supplier Customer
Tier 2 service
supplier
Primary Primary
product cash
flow flow
Services Also Have Supply Chains
Fuel supplies

Other
Electric backup utilities
power

Electric
Electrical Power Home
transformers
customers
Utility

Facility
maintenance
Commercial
customers
Programming
services

Janitorial
services
The Three Vs
 Bullwhip Effect
Supplier Factory
Distributor
Retailer
Customer

Small demand uncertainty becomes more and more distorted.

Stakeholder Value: Sustainable Supply
Chain Management
Green supply chain:
Supply chain considers environmental impacts,
complies with environmental safety regulations, and
communicates this to customers and partners.

▪ Government and regulatory pressures

▪ Environmental management and sustainability
▪ Public opinion and consumer choice
▪ Competitive advantage?
 Financial Value
• Cut costs to yield net gains at the bottom line.
• “It takes money to make money” (e.g., upgrades).
• Equitably distribute gains
(all stakeholders).
 Customer Value
Quality Affordability Availability Service Sustainability

Most resources are invested in creating the value of

greatest importance to the market.
 Social Value

Deliver Avoid Integrate

socially negative sustainability
desirable side effects. in supply
goods. chain.
 Supply Chain Stages

Stage 1: Stage 2: Stage 3: Stage 4:

Stable Multiple Semi- Integrated Extended
dysfunction functional enterprise enterprise
enterprise

Historical Reactive Reactive Proactive Strategic

Efficient Efficient Driver
Stage 3: Integrated Enterprise

ERP

Suppliers Customers
Production Marketing/
Purchasing Logistics R&D Distribution
control sales
Suppliers Customers

Suppliers Materials/products/services Payments

Customers

Reverse product flow

Stage 4: Extended Enterprise
Networked information flow

Suppliers’ Internal Customers’

Suppliers Customers
suppliers chain customers

Materials/products/services Payments

Reverse product flow