The Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) designation is an educational certification administered by The Association for Operations Management (APICS). APICS The Association for Operations Management, is a not-for-profit International education organization offering certification programs training tools and Newly offered in 2006, the CSCP joins two other APICS designations: APICS CPIM (Certified in Production and Inventory Management) and APICS CIRM (Certified in Integrated Resource Management). CPIM also stands for Common Profile for Instant Messaging as defined in RFC 3860
The CSCP program takes a broad view of the field of Supply Chain Management, extending beyond internal operations to encompass all the steps throughout the supply chain—from the supplier, through the company, to the end consumer—and provides the knowledge to effectively manage the integration of these activities to maximize a company’s value chain.
The course's content consists of 4 modules:
- Supply Chain Management Fundamentals - Building Competitive Operations, Planning And Logistics - Managing Customer And Supplier Relationships - Using Information Technology To Enable Supply Chain Management