CSCP Certification

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Distinguish Yourself as a Supply Chain Expert!

As worldwide competition increases, operations and supply chain professionals hold the key to achieving business objectives. APICS CSCP training can help your company enhance, communicate, and implement critical supply chain strategies that maximize profits and growth. With the APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) program, you can take your career and organization in a new and exciting direction. In this challenging global marketplace, only the most well-trained, well-educated professionals will be sought after by employers and valued by organizations.

Increase Customer Satisfaction and Bottom-line Results

"With the knowledge I gained from the APICS CSCP course, I was able to help Yokohama Tire realize about a 20% reduction in consumer inventory while still maintaining our high customer standards."
Michael Morris, CSCP, Senior Forecaster, Yokohama Tire

How Your Organization Benefits

From day one, apply your APICS CSCP program knowledge to solve everyday work issues. Shape the business' future, align goals and distinguish it from the competition. APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) is a professional development and certification program that brings the entire value chain into perspective by providing a true end-to-end view of the global supply chain. Along with increasing current supply chain knowledge, it will bring new skills and concepts to the company. Through the APICS CSCP program, learn about:

• Creating a common framework to address our company's unique supply chain challenges and opportunities.
• Aligning supply chain strategies with our business objectives.
• Improving performance through logistics, technology and data integration.
• Effectively managing supplier and customer relationships.
• Increasing customer satisfaction and bottom-line results.

Companies that sponsor all or part of their employees' tuition will gain a return on investment in the form of improved profits, long-term loyalty and more productive employees.

Create a common framework to address your company's unique supply chain challenges and opportunities

"The program has benefited LG Electronics management in increased supply chain knowledge and expertise and improved communication and information sharing across departments."
Guillermo Juvera, CPIM, CSCP, Director of Supply Chain, LG Electronics USA

How You Benefit

The APICS CSCP program will give you more credibility and recognition in your workplace and worldwide. You can distinguish yourself by committing to continued education that will help you sharpen your skills. This program gives you the opportunity to master supply chain management and all its facets all on the cutting edge of new developments and concepts. This knowledge and expertise will make you more respected and valuable in your organization and in other businesses around the world.

Effectively manage supplier and customer relationships

"Now that I have the background from the APICS CSCP Learning System, I am more comfortable dealing with day-to-day operations, coworkers and vendors. I can speak and understand the language my logistics suppliers use. By telling them I'm an APICS CSCP designee, they know I'm knowledgeable."
David Kesinger, CSCP, Logistics Coordinator, ELESYS North America

Register Today and Move Your Career Forward with the APICS CSCP!
Class starts February 7th and runs through March 27th, 2012 (Tuesdays and Thursdays).

The APICS CSCP Learning System

The course includes APICS CSCP Learning System, a comprehensive professional development and exam preparation program. It consists of four print modules and Web-based study tools that reflect the entire APICS CSCP Exam Content Manual (ECM). Combined with the classroom experience this provides you with a broad, encompassing view of global end-to-end supply chain management.

The APICS CSCP Learning System modules have been updated to keep pace with the rapid changes in the marketplace and to better align with the APICS CSCP exam.

Module 1 - Supply Chain Management Fundamentals

• Explore how successful supply chain management adds value to your organization.
• Understand the supply chain management processes.
• Recognize the fundamentals of green supply chain initiatives.
• Develop a supply chain strategy that aligns with corporate strategy.
• Develop and implement supply chain risk management strategies.
• Assess and measure the effectiveness of supply chains.
• Establish a continuous improvement process for supply chains.
• Understand the importance of supply chain design and its continually evolving capabilities.

Module 2 - Building Competitive Operations, Planning, and Logistics

• Understand natural dynamics within the supply chain to optimize performance and increase profitability.
• Assess the value of demands and reduce complexity in demand planning.
• Establish collaborations to replace or improve demand estimates.
• Include supply chain factors in product designs.
• Align distribution and transportation options with supply chain strategy.
• Develop and implement plans for using 3PL and 4PL service providers.
• Understand the importance of reverse logistics.

Module 3 - Managing Customer and Supplier Relationships

• Categorize customers based on their profiles and needs.
• Understand customer loyalty and lifetime value of a customer.
• Establish measures of customer satisfaction.
• Understand the strategic importance of purchasing and supplier relationships.
• Establish a supplier rating system.
• Effectively use customer data to improve service performance and increase value to suppliers and customers.

Module 4 - Using Information Technology to Enable Supply Chain Management

• Understand the role of data and information technology in support of the supply chain.
• Learn how technology-enabled supply chains contribute to business strategies and operating plans.
• Explore the IT infrastructure as it relates to the comprehensive set of supply chain management systems.
• Understand the innovative technologies enabling collaborative commerce and global visibility.
• Apply technology to enhance distribution, reverse logistics, and global supply chain communications.

The CSCP Exam

Exams are administered on computers by a testing agency. Exam fees are not included in the course fees. A candidate must qualify to take the exam. See "qualification details and exam fees" at the end of this information or on the APICS-OC website

Classes are led by: MASTER INSTRUCTOR: Nicholas M. Testa Jr, CFPIM, CSCP, CIRM, Jonah Nick Testa has been in senior management for over 30 years, applying Supply Chain, Lean and other business improvement tools at and within organizations of all sizes and types. Also active in APICS, he served on its board and as President of this global Association for Operations Management. He is an internationally known speaker, college instructor, and consultant. He analyses real world problems with insight and pragmatism, helping students bring the lessons of the classroom back to work.

APICS CSCP Course Fee:

• $1,650 for Members
• $1,800 for Non-Members
  
  

Class Location and information:

SELACO Training Room
10900 E. 183rd. St., Suite 350
Cerritos, CA. 90703 (map)

Class will run 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM each Tuesday and Thursday evening for 15 sessions. APICS Course material takes 13 nights to cover. The other two sessions are to facilitate Q+A and exam preparation.

The first session, at the beginning of the course, will focus on "Business in the Global Economy" as a topic, distribution of material, review of key exam dates, and the on-line course procedures. The final session of the course will be a review of all course materials in a facilitated discussion group just before the exam. Any student of the APICS Orange County Chapter course may, and are encouraged to attend, any facilitated sessions at the end of subsequent classes for a period of 24 months of course completion. This will provide a chance to review if you have not taken or need to retake the test and a chance to share your experience having taken the test with new students.

A light dinner will be provided, at no additional charge, each evening just prior to the class. Arrive 15 to 30 minutes early to relax and eat prior to the class.

Materials will include:

• CSCP Learning system
• CSCP Exam Content Manual
• Handouts of slides and supplemental material.

College Credits

APICS has worked with the National Program on Noncollegiate Sponsored Instruction (PONSI) to review CSCP for potential college credit. The following recommendations were approved and extended for the learning experience and passing the certification examination for CSCP:

• 3 credit hours for baccalaureate degrees

Registration

Or mail completed REGISTRATION FORM (or photocopy), check, or credit card information to:

APICS CSCP REGISTRATION
3843 S. Bristol #477
Santa Ana, CA. 92704

Please note: Class size is limited to 25 people for this course. Students are accepted in the order in which their registrations and payments are received. Payment must be received in order to guarantee a seat in the class.

To register for the review course or for additional information email our chapter office at ocapics@cox.net or call (949) 429-2200.

For additional information, fill out the "contact us" section on our website!

Exam Qualification Details and Fees

APICS CSCP Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible to register for the APICS CSCP exam, an individual must meet one of the following criteria:

• CPIM, CFPIM, CIRM or C.P.M. designation plus two years of related business experience*, or
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent** plus two years of related business experience, or
• Five years of related business experience*

*Related business experience: APICS defines "related business experience" as work that is directly connected to some aspect of the supply chain. This can include raw materials extraction, transportation and logistics, procurement, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, retail, customer service, software design and support and other areas that directly affect the supply chain. Workers who operate transportation or materials moving equipment or machines or processing equipment that require an intermediate level of training would qualify.

Managers, officials, professionals, technicians, sales personnel, quality and quality control personnel and skilled craft workers will generally be considered eligible.

Examples of work experience that would not qualify include clerical and administrative support position such as data entry, duplicating machine operator, file clerks, office machine operators, secretaries, telephone operators, order clerks and or unskilled labor positions where the duties require little or no independent judgment or specialized training.

**Equivalent of a bachelor's degree: APICS defines the equivalent of a bachelor's degree as the level of study that would qualify an individual for a graduate program in the country where the undergraduate degree was earned.

Exam Fees

Domestic APICS CSCP Exam Registration Fees

APICS Members $575 (US)
Non-Members* $725 (US)

*We encourage everyone to become a member and will reimburse the fee for anyone who paid the Non-Member course fee and joins during the course.