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CPIM - Certified in Production and
Inventory Management
- The Basics of Supply Chain Management
- Provides a solid foundation in the fundamental concepts of production and inventory management.
- Inventory Management
- An evolving discipline that encompasses the principles, concepts, and techniques for
determining what items to order, how much to order, when they are needed, when to order,
and how and where to store them. The main objective is to optimize customer service,
inventory investment, profitability, and return on investment.
- Just-In-Time
- A philosophy that seeks to continuously improve the ability to respond economically to
change. This is made practical through a process that exposes, prioritizes, and motivates
the continuous elimination of non-value-added activities. These wastes are seen not as
problems, but as opportunities for improvement. Their elimination results in changes to
every functional area of the company and to its suppliers and customers.
- Master Planning
- This module encompasses forecasting, order servicing, production planning, and master
scheduling. Key concepts include: management considerations, data sources and
requirements, effective techniques, accuracy, customer service levels, production
planning, rough-cut capacity planning, etc.
- Material and Capacity Requirements Planning
- A successful MRP/CRP candidate will demonstrate a working knowledge of the logic and
concepts behind these processes. An understanding of BOM's and independent versus
dependant demand are necessary. The ability to calculate load and capacity from order,
routing, and work center data is a requirement.
- Production Activity Control
- The principles, approaches, and techniques needed to schedule, control, measure, and
evaluate the effectiveness of production operations are reviewed. PAC is the part of the
execution phase of a closed-loop manufacturing system.
- Systems and Technologies
- Both production and managements systems are in need of reshaping to compete in today's marketplace. Candidates must understand strategic goals and how to configure a system that best utilizes technology to implement long-term benefits.
CIRM - Certified in Resource
Management
- Customers and Products
- The relationship of Marketing and Sales, field service, and product design and
development.
- Logistics
- Understand the interplay of production and inventory, procurement, and distribution.
- Manufacturing Processes
- Review industrial facilities management, process design and development, and production.
- Support Functions
- Association of human resources, finance and accounting, information systems, and total
quality management.
- Integrated Enterprise Management
- Skills needed to encourage change through teamwork and self-improvement. How to bring functions together to lead the enterprise in improvements.