APICS CSCP - CERTIFIED SUPPLY CHAIN PROFESSIONAL
The CSCP program helps you demonstrate your knowledge and organizational skills for devel-oping more streamlined operations
Supply Chain Professional
The 2019 APICS CSCP Learning System is a comprehensive professional development and exam preparation program. It consists of three reading modules and web-based study tools that reflect the entire APICS CSCP Exam Content Manual (ECM) and provides a broad view of global end-to-end supply chain management. Each module will further empower you with an understanding of best practices, techniques and technologies necessary to maximize your organization’s efficiency and impact the bottom line.
Course Agenda on APICS CSCP:
Module 1: Supply Chain Design
• Considering inputs and objectives of supply chain management strategy
• Recognizing and resolving misalignments and gaps
• Accounting and financial reporting information, strategic analysis tools, and economic considerations
• Designing the supply chain while understanding and working within business consid-erations
• Designing fulfillment strategies and products for different markets and requirements
• Understanding electronic business considerations and key technology applications
• Understanding implementation tools including project management processes and communication
Module 2: Supply Chain Planning and Execution
• Procuring and delivering goods and services using supply chain management
• Using demand management, including demand forecasting and prioritization
• Using master planning, master scheduling, and sales and operations planning (S&OP)
• Managing, planning, and controlling inventory
• Understanding the effects of inventory on financial statements and inventory-related cost categories
• Managing supply based on total cost of ownership and make-versus-buy analysis
• Developing supply plans based on buyer-supplier relationships
• Logistics, warehouse, and transportation management, forecasting, and planning
• Making considerations for monetary, regulatory, and trade conditions
• Segmentation of customer-focused marketing, customers, suppliers, and other part-ners
• Fundamentals of supplier relationship management (SRM) and customer relationship management (CRM)
• Managing reverse logistics and waste
Module 3: Supply Chain Improvement and Best Practices
• Standards, regulations, and sustainable best practices compliance
• International standards and considerations for import/export, intellectual property, li-censing, tax and accounting, and labor laws
• Corporate social responsibility for sustainability, UN Global Compact, and GRI initia-tives
• Accreditations, certifications, and standards for quality, environment, social, and safe-ty objectives
• Identifying, assessing, classifying and responding to risks
• Compliance, security, and regulatory concerns
• Improving the supply chain through measuring and analyzing performance using sup-ply chain metrics focused on customers, financial reports, and operational practices, and customer service
• Utilizing continuous improvement and change management techniques and principles, including lean and just-in-time
Who participate at the course APICS CSCP:
• Employees with direct influence on supply chain
• Department and division management
• Functional management
• Employees in cross-functional departments
Key Industries: Manufacturing, Consulting, Consumer products, Information, Food & Bever-age, Electronics, Services, Education, Transportation, Health Care, Government, Communica-tions Retail
Titels: Consultants, Materials Manager, anything with Supply Chain in title, Analysts, Director, Logistics Manager, Purchasing Manager, Operations Manager, Buyer, Project Manager
Prerequisites
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher
• Years in field: Distributed evenly across all ranges < 4 to 15+ years.
After the course you will be able to:
APICS CSCP helps employees develop
• competencies to manage complex worldwide supply chain activities involving suppli-ers, plants, distributors and customers in a global environment
• proven knowledge and organizational skills to strategically streamline operations.
APICS CSCP designees have the knowledge and skills to
• positively affect lead times, inventory and bottom-line profitability
• interact with existing resources and your ERP system to increase the efficiency of the workplace environment
• create consistency and foster collaboration through best practices, common terminol-ogy and corporate-wide communication
• achieve greater confidence and industry recognition.
After the course, the organization will have:
APICS CSCP helps organizations by
• creating common understanding, vocabulary, processes and frameworks within their entity to address their supply chain challenges and opportunities
• boosting productivity, collaboration and innovation
• enabling interdepartmental movement through collaboration and a consistent founda-tion.
APICS CSCP helps your employees
• design successful supply chain strategies using global standards and common termi-nology
• effectively manage supplier and customer relationships
• enhance logistics, technology and data integration to improve performance
• increase customer satisfaction and bottom-line results.
How the course APICS CSCP is run
Before the course:
• 2-3 weeks before the course you will receive course material, curriculum and a ques-tionnaire
At the course:
• 6 days of teaching (3 modules of 2 days) 9.00-16.00 (breakfast from 8.30)
• Web-based study tools that reflect the entire APICS CSCP Exam Content Manual (ECM)
• Meals
After the course:
• Course certificate
• Test & APICS certification