APICS Certification: Why How Maintenance Karen Schiebout, CPIM, CSCP

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APICS Certification Why How MaintenanceKaren
Schiebout, CPIM, CSCP
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The Importance of Certification

• Your Career
• Your Chapter
• Yourself

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Careers

• Global recognition
• Over 98,000 certified individuals
• CPIM is well recognized
• Enhance your credibility with your organization
• Gain knowledge about resource management

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Your Chapter

• Opportunities to network with others
• Learn with others
• Get enthused about your career path
• Talk the same language
• Opportunities to teach

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Yourself

• Gain knowledge
• Accomplishment
• Recognition
• Get a better job
• Prove that you can

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Paths to certification

• Self Study
• Purchase materials
• Student material
• CPIM Exam Content manual\
• Study groups
• Internet
• www.apics.org
• Fox Valley classes

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How tos

• Take a chapter sponsored class
• Study with other candidates
• Commit yourself to one night/day per week
• Peer pressure is a good thing
• Company classes

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Just do it

• Its not easy
• 75 questions, 3 hours
• Five tests
• CPIM
• Basics
• Master Planning
• Execution and Control
• Detail Scheduling
• Strategic Management of Resources
• But its worth it

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CSCP

• One test
• 175 questions
• Four Hours
• Computer Based
• Must Pre-qualify
• Exam Windows
• July
• December

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What are the Benefits of Maintaining Your APICS
Certification?

• Improve Performance
• Preserves the currency of hard-earnedcertificatio
  n credentials.
• Improves your job performance.
• Increases your competitive advantage.

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Maintaining Your APICS Certification

• Demonstrate Value
• Demonstrates commitment to your career that
  distinguishes you from others.
• Positions you as leader in changing fields.
• Facilitates networking with other professionals
  and organizations.

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Maintaining Your APICS Certification, contd

• Achieve Professional Goals
• Is essential for career growth and advancement.
• Increases your value to an organization.
• Exposes you to ideas beyond scope of current
  position.

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APICS Certification Maintenance Requirements

• Certification maintenance
• applies to both APICS CPIM and CSCP.
• requires 75 educational points every 5 years for
  APICS CPIM and APICS CSCP certified.
• requires 100 educational points every 5 years for
  APICS CFPIM certified individuals.
• You will be notified via email

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Certification points

• There are four ways to get certification points
• Continuing Education
• Presentations, publications, educational
  development
• Service to the organization
• Professional membership

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Continuing Education

• Consider all the learning available to APICS
  members
• Conference, seminar, workshop or webinar
• Item writing workshop
• District meeting with educational component

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Continuing Education-Page 2

• CPIM review course or CSCP Learning System
• Course offered by a degree granting institution
• Training program by your company or other
  organization such as SCOR, ASTL,ISM, CSCMP, ASTD
  etc.

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Presentations, Publications, Educational
Development

• 2 points per instructional hour up to 60 points
  relating to operations management
• Conferences, 24 points for APICS International
  Conference
• Courses including certification review
• Meetings (instructional)
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Workshops

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Publications

• 2 points per published article in a
• Book
• Magazine
• Newsletter
• Proceedings

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Publications Continued

• 5 points for original research that is published
  and distributed
• 30 points for written and published books
• 10 points for any published material that is
  listed as an APICS certification reference

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Service to the Operations Management Profession

• At the association level
• 5 points per year officer governing board
• 4 points per year member governing board
• 4 points year per chair of functional committee
• 2 points per year-member of committee

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Service Continued

• Chapter/District Level
• 3 points per year officer of governing board
• president, VP, secretary-treasurer
• 2 points per year member of governing board
• VP membership or Education
• 2 points per year as chair of a committee
• 1 point per year as member of committee

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Professional Membership

• 6 points per year for APICS membership
• 1 point per year for membership in other
  organizations

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Example of How to Reach 75 Points

• 6 points per year for being an APICS member (5
  years total, or 30 maintenance points)
• 24 points for attending the APICS International
  Conference Expo, Orlando, 2013
• 7 points for attending a seven hour Seminar
  Series
• 15 points for being an SMR Certification
  Committee member

30 24 7 15 76
points membership conference
seminar committee membership
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What happens if the deadline is missed?

• APICS will help you get back on track
• Participants have 5 years from the suspension of
  their CPIM to submit
• Requires an additional 15 points per year beyond
  the due date

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How to Apply for APICS Certification Maintenance

• Apply online or download PDF APICS certification
  maintenance forms at apics.org/maintain
• CPIM
• https//www.apics.org/careers-education-profession
  al-development/certification/maintenance/form
• CSCP
• https//www.apics.org/careers-education-profession
  al-development/certification/maintenance/form

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Costs

• Fees
• Member price 75.
• Nonmember price 150.

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Questions?

• Visit the APICS FAQ page.
• Read the APICS CPIM/APICS CFPIM certification
  maintenance bulletin
• Read the APICS CSCP certification maintenance
  bulletin

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QUESTIONS?