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

APICS Certification: Why How Maintenance Karen Schiebout, CPIM, CSCP. The Importance of Certification. Your Career Your Chapter Yourself. Careers. Global recognition Over 98,000 certified individuals CPIM is well recognized Enhance your credibility with your organization

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

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  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

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

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

  16. 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.

  17. 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

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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

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

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

  28. QUESTIONS?

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