Manufacturing Logistics Forum

Your Institute is introducing some changes, making us more open and relevant to you, whichever sector of logistics or transport you work in.

We are replacing the four Faculties with eight Professional Sectors. These Professional Sectors will provide specialist activity for a particular area of interest whilst continuing to offer opportunity and involvement across the profession.

What you need to do...

We are now asking all members to update their details and tell us which Professional Sectors and Forums they want to belong to as soon as possible. You can do this in a number of ways - online through ‘My Membership', complete the Member Selection form that you will shortly receive in Focus, or complete the form included on the Current Awareness Bulletin over the next few weeks.

Please note, you can now belong to as many Professional Sectors and Forums as you wish.

Should you wish to make your selections online, please remember that you will need to create your password to login if you have not already done so. A short guide to making your selection online is available here.

Not a Member of CILT? Click here to find out how the new Professional Sectors and Forums are relevant to you.

Manufacturing Logistics Forum

To remain in business manufacturers must become even more 'lean' and 'responsive'. A critical area often overlooked is that of logistics in a manufacturing context.

The Forum's aim is to raise the profile and help spotlight the significance of logistics in the manufacturing environment and to make practical contributions by breaking new ground in understanding and measurement. It actively monitors best practice and encourages the exchange of benchmarking data.

The Forum has embarked on a second major research project, in conjunction with the University of Manchester, the intention of which is to create K-BEST, a Web-based knowledge base of best and worst practice in supply chain management and implications of these practices. The tool is intended to be used by practitioners to help them solve their problems and as an education and training tool for those who are looking to develop their skills in the area of manufacturing logistics.