CILT(UK) Qualifications

Transport Manager Refresher and OLAT courses 

Considering having your Transport Manager Refresher and/or OLAT course Accredited or Endorsed? Find out all the information you need to know below.

Accredited and Endorsed TM Refresher and OLAT Courses

For a list of accredited and endorsed Transport Manager Refresher and OLAT courses, please refer to the below list:

Accredited and Endorsed Transport Manager Refresher and OLAT Courses

The CILT(UK) Transport Manager (TM) Refresher and/or OLAT course endorsement and accreditation is offered to organisations who are Accredited Learning Partners of CILT(UK) and deliver the CILT(UK) Level 3 Certificate of Competence for Transport Managers qualification.

Both endorsement and accreditation are offered to Learning Partners with endorsement being the basic offering and accreditation offering enhanced elements to a Learner.

Humanitarian Logistics

The Fritz/CILT Humanitarian suite of qualifications is designed for humanitarian logistics professionals and offers courses developed in collaboration with a number of leading humanitarian agencies. The programmes are competence based with learners demonstrating that they can apply the knowledge in a practical context.

CHL: Humanitarian Logistics Self-Guided Practice

In this 39-hour self-guided practice program, you will build your knowledge and demonstrate your skills in the management of logistics within humanitarian aid supply chain operations. This learning experience consists of seven units each featuring a series of scenario-based tasks and skill check questions. As you go through each task, you will be prompted with learning materials and resources to help you learn and answer questions on key topics including: warehousing and inventory, procurement, transport, fleet management, cash transfer programming, and managing a humanitarian supply chain response.

Completion requirements:

You must achieve an overall score of 80% to pass and complete each unit. Once you complete Units 1-6, Unit 7 will be unlocked. Unit 7 is an assessment of what you learned in Units 1-6. You can retake all the tasks in each unit as many times needed to pass and complete the unit.

Created by a team of humanitarian logistics practitioners from ICRC, CRS, Oxfam, WFP, and MSF and led by Fritz Institute, this self-guided practice was designed for professionals working in a logistics function in the humanitarian and development sectors, or for anyone working in commercial or military logistics intending to move into the humanitarian sector. Development of this self-guided practice was funded in part by USAID.

CILT Certification in Humanitarian Logistics

The Certification in Humanitarian Logistics (CHL) is suitable for professionals working in operational management positions within the field of humanitarian logistics. It also provides a valuable grounding for those with relevant supply chain experience from the commercial sector who are aiming to enter the humanitarian logistics arena for the first time. For further information or to enroll, please click here

CILT Certification in Humanitarian Medical Logistics Practices

This qualification is aimed at humanitarian logisticians and medical specialists involved in medical supply chains. It will increase humanitarian logisticians’ and medical specialists’ ability to plan and operate medical supply, as well as safeguard against the high rate of substandard and counterfeit medical items pervading the international medical supply chain. For further information or to enroll, please click here.

CILT Certification in Humanitarian Supply Chain Management

The Certification in Humanitarian Supply Chain Management (CHSCM) is the next-level qualification in this range. It is aimed at humanitarian logisticians operating at a tactical level and engaged in the planning, resourcing and management of the supply chain and the implementation of supply chain strategy. For further information or to enroll, please click here.

For more information visit: Fritz Cilt Certification | Supply Chain | Logistics Learning Alliance

Course Duration

A four day course leading to certification as an AEO Practitioner. 

Course Overview

AEO certification is a vital part of the UK Government’s post Brexit strategy for achieving the most frictionless borders possible.  Being able to demonstrate to companies that candidates have the in-depth knowledge and skills required to manage a company’s path to AEO certification and to successfully maintain the programme through renewal has been difficult until now.  Having completed this course candidates will have excellent, tangible evidence of their achievements in this area.  This valuable, practical and pragmatic course takes them through everything needed to succeed.

No prior knowledge of the AEO standard is required.   Candidates should be aged 18+.

All content is mandatory – there are no elective or optional elements.  

There is a mandatory Assessment test on the final day of the course.  Candidates must achieve 70% in order to pass.

The course offers 22 hours of CPD.

Course Content

The course includes:

The AEO scheme:

• What it is

• Who Sets the Requirements

• Who governs and manages it

• Benefits

• Links to other standards including C-TPAT, PIP, ISO 28001, ISO 27001

Presenting to management – cost/benefit

The requirements:

• AEO(C)

• AEO(S)

Preparing to Apply:

• Managing the project

• The application process

• Who needs to be involved

• The application form

• The questionnaire

• Supplementary documentation

Analysing & documenting your processes

Identifying gaps

Auditing for AEO compliance / readiness

Managing the HMRC audit

Maintaining Compliance

A Multichoice Assessment test – pass mark 70% duration 1 hour 15 minutes

Learning outcomes

Candidates will be able to express to their management, colleagues and team members what the AEO scheme is about.  The governance of the scheme and the benefits of attaining AEO certification for a particular company.   They will also be able to explain how the AEO standard relates to other standards such as C-TPAT, PIP, ISO 28001 and ISO 27001.

Candidates will be able to prepare and give presentations for their management detailing the cost of attaining AEO in the context of their company and the benefits of attaining AEO(C) and/or AEO(S) for their company.

Candidates will be able to explain clearly and in-depth the difference between the two types of AEO certification (AEO(S) and AEO(C)), the implications, the benefits and how one or both of the types suit the operations of a particular company.

Candidates will be able to manage the project required to prepare for AEO application within a company including involving/engaging with the right people (subject specialists), completing the application form, attaining responses from multiple departments to the questions on the questionnaire, collating those responses into a coherent whole, writing the required supplementary documentation and managing the application process with HMRC.

Candidates will be able to analyse and document existing processes to the standard needed for AEO application.

Candidates will be able to identify gaps in current processes and procedures which would lead to an unsuccessful application for AEO and will be able to manage the project to remove the discovered gaps and create appropriately documented processes.

Candidates will have the skills required to undertake an internal audit to judge company readiness for AEO application and/or to assess compliance with AEO standards.  This will include how to manage the audit process, prepare an audit plan and undertake the audit itself either as an individual or part of a team.

Candidates will have the skills necessary to manage the external audit by HMRC which assesses a company’s level of compliance with AEO criteria, to ensure as smooth, efficient and effective audit visit and outcome as is possible in the given circumstances.

AEO certification has to be renewed periodically.  Candidates will have the skills required to maintain compliance, undertake interim audits and manage non-conformances after AEO certification has been attained.

Benefits

Successful candidates will be able to lead companies to achieve both AEO(S) and AEO(C) certification in a professional and knowledgeable way ensuring that companies are prepared to meet the standards set by AEO and that their application will be acceptable to HMRC.    In addition successful candidates will be able to demonstrate to employers and clients that they have the full scope of skills and knowledge required to steer them to success.

Target Audience

Those involved in international trade and international trade compliance including import, export, compliance, audit, customs procedures, supply chain security and Standards. 

Applicable to exporters, importers, traders, customs brokers, freight agents and consultants of any size from SME to global corporations.

Suitable for those at operational, supervisory, management and senior management levels.

Location and dates

Details on course dates and locations are available at www.morley-consulting.co.uk

Course Duration

Five modules delivered over five days 

Course Overview

Designed to give delegates the essential knowledge of customs procedures required to work in an operational role within an exporting, importing, transport or freight forwarding environment. It covers the requirements in a practical and pragmatic way ensuring delegates know how to operate legally and how to gain the benefits available for their organisation.

Course Content

This in-depth course will include the following modules:

• Customs in Action, Practical Compliance: EU, third countries, controls, AEO etc.

• Customs Tariff Classification: the straightforward ‘how to’ guide

• Customs Valuation: rules, impact and practical methods for how to arrive at the correct value

• Origin & Preference: impact, calculation, Free Trade Agreements (FTA’s) and most importantly how to gain the benefits

• Specialist Customs Procedures: why and how to use the most popular duty management procedures available whilst avoiding the pitfalls; Assessment

The course is taught by experienced industry professionals from a pragmatic and practical view point aiming to give delegates the knowledge and tools needed to fulfil a commercial customs role in the supply chain efficiently and effectively making full use of the available customs processes and procedures to obtain the best outcomes for their organisation or customers.

The emphasis is placed on understanding requirements and options, being able to assess whether or not they apply to a given situation and what benefits and drawbacks the use of the different options will produce. This allows delegates to use their knowledge in any environment and in conjunction with any computer system used by their company or customers.

A multi-choice assessment will be undertaken on the final day. Candidates must attend all five days of the course and attain the pass mark in the assessment to be awarded the Certificate.

Learning outcomes

• Operational competence in the customs environment

• Competent to undertake tariff classification and to identify and correct errors

• Competent to calculate the correct value of goods for customs purposes in different circumstances

• Competent to identify the correct origin of goods for customs purposes and to detect and correct errors

• Competent to identify the most beneficial and applicable customs procedure in different circumstances

Benefits

This exciting course sets the standard for professional competence in operational customs knowledge and compliance.   As HMRC move forward with reforms to customs procedures and requirements to update and simplify processes whilst achieving better legal compliance plus enhanced safety and security in the UK more and more emphasis is being placed on companies having someone who is demonstrably competent with customs procedures.  A company’s access to customs simplifications, priority treatment and reduced cost will be based on external risk assessment. Successful delegates will be able to prove to employers that they have the knowledge and skills needed to work in this field without placing their organisations at risk. 

Companies having achieved or seeking to achieve AEO(C) or AEO(S) status will be able to demonstrate that their employees engaged in customs work have the level of knowledge expected by the Standard.

Target Audience

hose involved in the use of customs procedures at an operational or supervisory/management level. 

Applicable to exporters, importers, traders, customs brokers and freight agents of any size from SME to global corporations.

CPD: 28 Hours

Participants have to complete all five modules to complete the Certificate. Participants can take attend modules from the spring and autumn sessions though it is strongly recommended that they take all the modules in one session.

Location and dates

Details on course dates and locations are available at www.morley-consulting.co.uk

Course Duration

2 day course plus Assessment on day 3

This CILT(UK) accredited course is part of the Morley Consulting Career Pathway.

Overview

Designed as the essential next step for those who have passed the Certificate of Customs Competency and who want to progress their career to a senior level.   

The Advanced Customs Practitioner course offers an expansion of the fundamentals of classification and valuation along with consideration of other useful customs procedures.  Once again this is a practical course intended to directly transfer to the workplace.

You will gain a detailed knowledge of tariff classification methodology for complex or ‘difficult’ products using available official resources to confidently classify products in the light of your analysis of detailed rulings on interpretation.

Customs Valuation will be discussed with recent rulings and cases used to illustrate complex areas of debate and potential non-compliance allowing you to confidently take valuation decisions in the workplace.

The course extends your knowledge of key issues and explores the practical requirements of compliantly and smoothly moving products with more complicated documentary needs across our borders.

You will also complete your knowledge of the wide range of customs and associated procedures available to bring competitive advantage to your supply-chains; many of which are ‘hot topics’ since the UK left the EU.

This course is part of the suite of Morley Consulting Customs Career Pathway CILT(UK)  Accredited courses which ultimately lead to the Diploma in Practical Trade Compliance.

Syllabus Content

Advanced Customs Valuation

• Case Studies

Advanced Tariff Classification

• Case Studies

Plant, Food & Drink Exports and Imports

• Plants and plant products

• Food of Animal origin (POAO)

• Alcoholic Drinks

• Phytosanitary Certificates

• Export Health Certificates

• Excise 

• Process and Procedures

• Systems (IPAFFS / PEACH / EMCS)

• Composite Products

• Fees

• Border Control Posts (BCP)

• Liabilities

Timber Imports and Exports

• Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Certification (FLEGT)

• The Timber and Timber Products and FLEGT (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Transit

• Purpose

• Process

• Usage

• New Computerised Transit System (NCTS)

• Transit accompanying Document (TAD)

• Interaction with the UK Goods Vehicle Movement System (GVMS)

• Guarantees

• Authorised Consignee / Consignor

• Late Presentation / Non-Compliance

• Record Keeping

• Penalties

Onward Supply Relief (OSR)

• What it is

• Purpose

• Process

• Penalties

• EU Section 42

Bulk low value parcels

• Bulk Import Reduced Data Set   (BIRDS)

The future of UK Customs 

• Customs 2025 - 2035

• Digitalisation etc.

Assessment

On-line, closed Book, multichoice assessment: maximum time 1 hour 15 minutes. Pass mark is 70%.

The assessment is independently proctored by CILT(UK) and certificates will be issued by CILT(UK) to successful candidates.

You are assessed on your knowledge and your ability to apply that knowledge in business situations rather than on your capability to write lengthy essays or memorise legislation.   

Knowledge Level: Practitioner

This is a CILT(UK) Practitioner level accredited non-regulated qualification.

CPD Allocation: 12 hours (structured).

Successful achievement of the Advanced Customs Practitioner certification together with 3.5 years relevant experience in the profession will allow the Learner to apply for Member of the Institute (MILT) with CILT(UK).

Entry Requirements

Applicants will need to hold the following accredited non-regulated qualification:

• Certificate of Customs Competency

Applicants who do not hold the above but who hold a relevant existing degree or equivalent or who have at least 3 years’ demonstrable experience in customs work will be assessed on an individual, case by case basis, for direct entry onto the course.  Applicants will be expected to be able to demonstrate practical knowledge of the subjects covered in the Certificate of Customs Competency.

Fee

For information on fees for this course visit www.morley-consulting.co.uk

Fee includes all Course Materials (not just copies of the slides), Assessment, Proctoring and Certification.

Location and dates

Details on course dates and locations are available at www.morley-consulting.co.uk

Course Duration

2 day course plus Assessment on day 3

This CILT(UK) accredited course forms the top level of the Morley Consulting Career Pathway.

Overview

The course is designed with business in mind, covering the full range of skills in a concise and targeted manner, keeping time away from the workplace to a minimum.

It aims to give you the knowledge and tools needed to fulfil a commercial Trade Compliance role in any international supply chain efficiently and effectively, obtaining the best outcomes for your organisation and customers.

Compliantly leveraging trade agreements, international trade regulations, and customs legislation is critical to creating competitive advantage in today’s modern supply-chains no matter whether your business is a start-up or an established global corporation. Risk reduction both of supply-chain interruption and potential penalties is essential.

This exciting, industry leading, pragmatic Diploma addresses the practical requirements for a wide variety of products and sectors from high-tech military goods to cups and saucers and everything in between. Achieving the Diploma will allow you to prove to employers that you have the knowledge and skills needed to attain and maintain compliance in this essential but complex field in any environment or business sector.

Setting the standard for professional competence in commercial operational Trade Compliance, emphasis is placed on understanding the legal requirements and options, being able to assess whether or not they apply to a given situation and what benefits, risks and drawbacks the use of the different options will produce.  

The programme is taught by an experienced industry professional from a pragmatic and practical view point and is also designed to meet the requirements of the EU Customs Competency Framework for the Private Sector.

The course is kept fully up to date with changes to UK Export Control and Import Control legislation.
 

Syllabus Content

UK Export Licencing 

• What is Export Licencing

• Consequences and penalties  

• Military

• Dual-Use

• Technology & Intangible

• SIEL, OIEL, OGEL, EU GEA
  

• Sanctions

• Financial Sanctions (UK Treasury)

• Freeports and their interaction with export compliance

• DiT, ECJU

• Process

• Timescales

• Spire (LITE)

EU Export Licencing & sanctions

• Differences to UK

USA export licencing

• Department of Commerce Export Administrations Regulations (EAR)

• Department of State International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)

• Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

• Denied Parties

• Licence types

• Overview of controls and their impact on UK exporters/importers

How to put a compliance programme in place and how to maintain compliance

Penalties and Rulings

• Penalties

• Recent Cases

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

• What is CITES

• What products are covered (perfume, health foods, luxury goods etc.)

• Consequences and penalties

• Standard

• Article 10

• With Carnet

• APHA 

• Process 

• Timescales

• Fees

Licensing Cultural Goods

• Arts Council England

• Age 

• Monetary Value

• Outstanding National Importance

UK Import Licencing

• The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) responsibilities

• Department for International Trade (DIT) responsibilities

• The OGIL (Open General Import Licence)

• Sanctions

• Certificates of Free Sale (CFS)

• Tiered-priced medical products

• Process

• Timescales

Prohibitions and Restrictions

Awareness of other product restrictions 

• e.g. toys, china/porcelain, electrical, emissions, cosmetics, leather, jewellery, conflict minerals, conflict diamonds, lead crystal, aflatoxin, ammonium nitrate, CFCs and other ozone depleting substances etc.

 Assessment

On-line, closed Book, multichoice assessment: maximum time 2 hours. Pass mark is 70%.

The assessment is independently proctored by CILT(UK) and certificates will be issued by CILT(UK) to successful candidates.

You are assessed on your knowledge and your ability to apply that knowledge in business situations rather than on your capability to write lengthy essays or memorise legislation.    

Knowledge Level: Experienced Practitioner

This is a CILT(UK) Experienced Practitioner Level accredited non-regulated qualification.

CPD: 12 hours (structured).

 Successful achievement of the Advanced Customs Practitioner certification together with 3.5 years relevant experience in the profession will allow the Learner to apply for Member of the Institute (MILT) with CILT(UK).

Entry Requirements

Applicants will need to hold the following accredited non-regulated qualifications:

• Certificate of Customs Competency

• Advanced Customs Practitioner  

• AEO Certified Practitioner

Applicants who do not hold the above but who hold a relevant existing degree or equivalent or who have at least 5 years’ demonstrable experience in international trade will be assessed on an individual, case by case basis, for direct entry onto the Diploma.  Applicants will be expected to be able to demonstrate study of and practical knowledge of the subjects covered in the Certificate of Customs Competency, Advanced Customs Practitioner and AEO Certified Practitioner courses.

Successful achievement of the Diploma in Practical Trade Compliance together with 3 years relevant experience in the profession will allow the Learner to apply for Member of the Institute (MILT) with CILT(UK). 

Fee

For information on fees for this course visit www.morley-consulting.co.uk

Fee includes all tuition, Course Materials (not just copies of the slides), Assessment, Proctoring and Certification.

Location and dates

Details on course dates and locations are available at www.morley-consulting.co.uk

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