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

1. APICS Certification: Why How MaintenanceKaren Schiebout, CPIM, CSCP

2. The Importance of Certification • Your Career • Your Chapter • Yourself

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

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

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

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

7. How to’s • 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

8. Just do it • It’s not easy • 75 questions, 3 hours • Five tests • CPIM • Basics • Master Planning • Execution and Control • Detail Scheduling • Strategic Management of Resources • But it’s worth it

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

10. What are the Benefits of Maintaining Your APICS Certification? Improve Performance: • Preserves the currency of hard-earnedcertification credentials. • Improves your job performance. • Increases your competitive advantage. 10

11. 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. 11

12. Maintaining Your APICS Certification, cont’d: 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.

13. 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

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

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

17. 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.

18. 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

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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. Professional Membership • 6 points per year for APICS membership • 1 point per year for membership in other organizations

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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-professional-development/certification/maintenance/form • CSCP: • https://www.apics.org/careers-education-professional-development/certification/maintenance/form

27. Costs • Fees: • Member price $75. • Nonmember price $150.

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

29. QUESTIONS?