Green Logistics Management Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Logistics Managers, Supply Chain Managers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-LD-200

Before you join: Participants should understand core logistics activities such as transport planning, warehousing, inventory movement, carrier management or distribution operations.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

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Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Logistics operations face increasing pressure to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, fuel use, waste and local pollution while maintaining service reliability and cost control. Transport emissions, inefficient loading, empty running, warehouse energy demand, disposable packaging and poorly designed returns processes can create material environmental and financial exposure. Customers, regulators, investors and procurement teams increasingly require credible emissions data and reduction plans from logistics providers and supply-chain partners.

This course equips participants to design, measure and improve lower-carbon logistics and distribution operations. Participants learn to establish transport and warehouse emissions baselines, apply the GLEC Framework and ISO 14083 principles, identify practical reduction opportunities, assess modal-shift and network-design options, improve vehicle utilisation, reduce packaging impacts and build circular reverse-logistics flows. The course also addresses green freight procurement, supplier engagement, carbon reporting, financial appraisal and implementation governance.

Teaching combines concise instructor briefings with logistics cases, carbon-calculation workshops, group analysis, transport-planning simulations and structured application planning. Cases draw on distribution networks in manufacturing, retail, public services, humanitarian operations and third-party logistics. Participants leave with a Green Logistics Improvement Plan, supported by a transport-emissions baseline model, an opportunity register, a supplier evaluation scorecard and implementation measures suitable for use in their own operation.

The course is suited to managers and specialists responsible for transport, warehousing, distribution, procurement, sustainability or supply-chain improvement. It is particularly useful where an organisation must reduce logistics emissions without transferring avoidable cost, risk or service failures elsewhere in the supply chain.

What you will be able to do

  • Calculate transport and warehousing emissions using activity-based logistics data
  • Apply GLEC Framework and ISO 14083 principles to logistics carbon reporting
  • Diagnose fleet, route, load-factor and network sources of avoidable emissions
  • Develop modal-shift, consolidation and routing options using total-cost analysis
  • Design warehouse energy and material-handling improvement measures
  • Evaluate sustainable packaging and reverse-logistics options using lifecycle criteria
  • Create green freight procurement requirements and supplier scorecards
  • Produce a phased Green Logistics Improvement Plan with measurable targets

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Build confidence producing defensible logistics emissions calculations
  • Identify fuel, mileage and energy savings within existing operations
  • Lead informed discussions with carriers, warehouse providers and sustainability teams
  • Assess green logistics proposals using cost, service and emissions evidence
  • Produce an implementation plan for a current distribution challenge

For your organisation

  • Improved visibility of transport and warehouse greenhouse-gas emission sources
  • Reduced fuel consumption through stronger routing, loading and fleet practices
  • More credible freight emissions data for customer and corporate reporting
  • Better supplier selection through environmental and operational performance criteria
  • Prioritised logistics improvement projects with accountable targets and owners

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can frame green logistics objectives around service, cost, risk and environmental performance.

  • Green logistics scope across transport, warehousing, packaging and returns operations
  • Triple Bottom Line assessment of cost, service and environmental outcomes
  • Materiality matrix identifies priority logistics impacts and stakeholder expectations
  • Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 emissions boundaries
  • Logistics decarbonisation hierarchy: avoid, shift, improve and compensate
  • Baseline operating profile built from freight, facility and packaging data

Participants can calculate and document transport and warehouse emissions using recognised reporting principles.

  • GHG Protocol reporting principles: relevance, completeness, consistency, transparency and accuracy
  • GLEC Framework calculation structure for freight transport emissions
  • ISO 14083 requirements for quantifying transport-chain greenhouse-gas emissions
  • Activity data collection: distance, weight, fuel, energy and refrigerant use
  • Emission factors selected by fuel type, vehicle class and geography
  • Well-to-wheel and tank-to-wheel boundaries compared for transport reporting
  • Data-quality scoring addresses primary data, assumptions and estimation uncertainty

Participants can identify fleet and route changes that reduce fuel use and emissions.

  • Fuel-consumption analysis separates driver behaviour, vehicle condition and route effects
  • Vehicle utilisation metrics: cube fill, weight fill and empty kilometres
  • Route optimisation balances delivery windows, distance, capacity and stop density
  • Backhaul planning reduces empty running through compatible return loads
  • Driver eco-driving programmes monitored through idling, acceleration and fuel metrics
  • Preventive maintenance controls tyre pressure, engine efficiency and emissions
  • Telematics dashboards track kilometres, fuel, load factor and carbon intensity

Participants can compare network and modal alternatives using cost, service and emissions criteria.

  • Total landed cost analysis combines freight, inventory, handling and carbon costs
  • Modal-shift screening compares road, rail, inland waterway and coastal shipping
  • Intermodal network design identifies terminal, handling and lead-time constraints
  • Consolidation centres assessed for shipment density, service and emissions effects
  • Milk-run design improves collection efficiency for dispersed suppliers
  • Network scenarios test warehouse location, delivery frequency and transport distance
  • Marginal-abatement-cost curves rank logistics interventions by cost and carbon impact

Participants can assess freight technology and fuel options against operational requirements.

  • Battery-electric vehicle suitability assessed through range, payload and charging constraints
  • Charging infrastructure planning covers dwell time, power capacity and depot design
  • Renewable diesel, biodiesel and biomethane evaluated using lifecycle emissions factors
  • Hydrogen freight applications assessed for duty cycle and refuelling availability
  • Refrigerated transport emissions reduced through equipment specification and temperature control
  • Fleet replacement business cases include residual value, infrastructure and maintenance
  • Technology roadmaps align vehicle transitions with contract and asset cycles

Participants can identify practical measures to reduce warehouse energy and material impacts.

  • Warehouse energy audit maps lighting, HVAC, refrigeration and material-handling loads
  • Energy intensity measured per pallet, order, square metre and operating hour
  • LED lighting controls use occupancy sensors, zoning and daylight harvesting
  • Building management systems monitor demand peaks and equipment operating schedules
  • Material-handling equipment choices compare batteries, charging patterns and utilisation
  • Cold-chain controls address insulation, door discipline and refrigerant leakage
  • On-site solar appraisal considers load profile, roof capacity and tariffs

Participants can improve packaging and reverse-logistics decisions using lifecycle and operational criteria.

  • Packaging lifecycle assessment compares material, weight, protection and recovery outcomes
  • Right-sizing methods reduce void fill, dimensional weight and transport emissions
  • Reusable transit packaging evaluated through return rate, cleaning and asset loss
  • Packaging specification balances product protection, handling efficiency and recyclability
  • Reverse-logistics process maps capture collection, inspection, disposition and recovery
  • Disposition hierarchy prioritises reuse, repair, remanufacture, recycling and disposal
  • Return-rate analysis identifies avoidable returns and recovery-value opportunities

Participants can embed environmental performance requirements into logistics sourcing and supplier governance.

  • Freight tender specifications define emissions data, equipment and reporting requirements
  • Carrier prequalification assesses fleet age, fuel, safety and environmental controls
  • Weighted supplier scorecards balance price, service, carbon intensity and compliance
  • Contract clauses set reporting frequency, data assurance and improvement commitments
  • Supplier development plans target route efficiency, utilisation and fuel reduction
  • Performance reviews use corrective-action logs and jointly agreed reduction targets
  • Avoided-emissions claims tested against baselines, boundaries and evidence quality

Participants can build financially credible cases and governance arrangements for green logistics projects.

  • Business cases quantify capital cost, operating savings, service effects and emissions
  • Net present value compares fleet, facility and packaging investment alternatives
  • Sensitivity analysis tests fuel price, carbon price and demand assumptions
  • Carbon intensity KPIs reported per tonne-kilometre, shipment and order
  • Dashboard design links operational drivers to carbon and financial performance
  • RACI matrices assign ownership for data, projects, approvals and reporting
  • Assurance-ready evidence files retain source data, factors and calculation records

Participants can produce a phased plan for implementing and monitoring green logistics improvements.

  • Opportunity register captures initiative, owner, investment, benefit and implementation risk
  • Impact-effort matrix sequences quick wins, pilots and longer-term investments
  • SMART targets define emissions, fuel, energy, waste and utilisation improvements
  • Pilot charters specify scope, baseline, success measures and decision gates
  • Change-management plans address drivers, warehouse teams, carriers and customers
  • Monthly review cadence monitors KPIs, exceptions, actions and realised benefits
  • Ninety-day action plan converts analysis into accountable next steps

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Transport and warehouse emissions baseline model
  2. Green Logistics Improvement Plan template
  3. Freight carrier environmental scorecard
  4. Logistics carbon KPI dashboard specification
  5. Sustainable packaging and returns assessment checklist
  6. Marginal abatement cost opportunity register

Who should attend

  • Logistics Managers — responsible for transport, warehousing and distribution performance
  • Supply Chain Managers — coordinating emissions reduction across logistics partners
  • Transport Managers — improving fleet efficiency, routing and carrier performance
  • Procurement Managers — setting environmental requirements for freight and logistics contracts
  • Sustainability Managers — obtaining credible logistics data and reduction initiatives
  • Warehouse Managers — reducing energy, equipment and materials impacts

Skills and tools covered

Logistics carbon accountingGreen freight procurementTransport network optimisationWarehouse energy managementSustainable packaging designReverse logistics planning

Tools and standards

GHG Protocol, GLEC Framework, ISO 14083, Marginal Abatement Cost Curve

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to introduce methods, standards and decision criteria, followed by facilitated case work using realistic freight, warehouse and distribution data. Participants calculate emissions, compare routing and modal alternatives, assess packaging choices and review carrier proposals in small groups. Transport-planning simulations show the trade-offs between cost, service, capacity and emissions. Individual application planning helps participants convert course methods into a practical improvement agenda for their own logistics operation.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should understand core logistics activities such as transport planning, warehousing, inventory movement, carrier management or distribution operations. Experience working with operational data, supplier performance measures or basic cost reports is helpful. Participants should be comfortable discussing their organisation's freight flows, facilities and service requirements. Prior study in sustainability, carbon accounting, environmental science, lifecycle assessment or advanced analytics is not required. The course introduces the relevant emissions-accounting concepts and calculation approaches before applying them to logistics decisions.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

You should understand the basic flow of goods through transport, warehousing or distribution. You do not need prior carbon-accounting, environmental-management or lifecycle-assessment training.

Bring a laptop if possible and, where permitted, non-sensitive information about your freight flows, facilities, carrier contracts or current performance measures. Course materials and calculation templates are provided.

It is designed for logistics, transport, warehouse, supply-chain, procurement and sustainability professionals with operational responsibilities. It also suits project managers supporting fleet transition, emissions reporting or distribution-network improvement.

This course concentrates on operational logistics decisions: freight movement, facilities, packaging, returns and logistics supplier management. Participants use logistics-specific reporting approaches, metrics and improvement methods rather than broad corporate sustainability concepts.

Participants can use the baseline model, scorecard, opportunity register and action-plan structure with their own data. The course methods support carrier reviews, warehouse improvement projects, procurement tenders and internal emissions-reduction planning.

The course contains ten modules taught in sequence across five training days, each running from 08:30 to 16:30. Time is divided between instructor input, calculations, cases, group analysis, simulations and application planning, with approximately 6.5 contact hours each day.

Questions about this course?

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