CSCP Exam Information and Guideline
APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional
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Earning the Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) designation demonstrates your mastery of the essential technology, concepts and strategies in supply chain management and enterprise resource planning.
Earning the CSCP can:
Demonstrate competency in end-to-end supply chain management.
Increase your salary and improve your hiring potential.
Prove mastery of concepts, strategies, and terminologies and increase functional knowledge of the end-to-end supply chain.
Improve internal operations and increase customer satisfaction.
Demonstrate your commitment to advancing both your career and your companys operations.
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 considerations
- Designing fulfillment strategies and products for different markets and requirements
- Identifying and managing market segments
- Understanding electronic business considerations and key technology applications
- Understanding implementation tools including project management processes communication
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 in the supply chain based on total cost of ownership and make-versus-buy analysis
- Developing supply plans based on buyer-supplier relationships
- Logistics and warehouse management, forecasting, and planning
- Making considerations for trade, regulation, and currency funds flow
- Segmentation of customer-driven marketing, customers, suppliers, and other partners
- Fundamentals of supplier relationship management (SRM) and customer relationship management (CRM)
- Managing reverse logistics and waste
Supply Chain Improvement and Best Practices
- Standards, regulations, and sustainable best practices compliance
- International standards and considerations for import/export, intellectual property, licensing, tax and accounting, and labor laws
- Corporate social responsibility for sustainability, UN Global Compact, and GRI initiatives
- Accreditation, certifications, and standards for quality, environmental, social, and safety
- Identifying, assessing, classifying and responding to risks
- Compliance, security, and regulatory concerns
- Improving the supply chain through measuring performance and supply 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 as well as other continuous improvement philosophies