Since 1973, the CPIM program has educated more than 75,000 manufacturing professionals on essential terminology, concepts, and strategies related to demand management, procurement and supplier planning, material requirements planning, capacity requirements planning, sales and operations planning, master scheduling, performance measurements, supplier relationships, quality control, and continuous improvement.

Benefits of CPIM

A CPIM education can help you to:

• Increase your functional knowledge of production and inventory management.
• Improve efficiency across the processes of your organization's supply chain.
• Streamline operations through accurate forecasting.
• Predict outcomes more accurately.
• Maximize customer satisfaction by delivering products and services Just-in-Time.
• Increase profitability by optimizing your organization's inventory investment.
• Enhance your credibility among peers, employers, and customers.

Who should earn the CPIM designation?

A CPIM education is essential for professionals involved in:

• Production and inventory management
• Operations
• Supply chain management
• Procurement
• Materials management
• Purchasing

The CPIM courses not only will prepare you to achieve your certification, but also (taking them individually) will keep your knowledge up to speed. If you are pursuing your CPIM.

This course is for everyone who needs to have a basic understanding of the planning and control of the flow of materials into, through and out of manufacturing and distribution organizations. This course is an introduction to Materials Planning, Master Planning, Materials Requirements Planning, Capacity Management, Production Activity Control, Inventory Fundamentals, Physical Distribution, Quality Management, Purchasing, and Just-In-Time.

• Supply Chain definitions and concepts
• Manufacturing Strategies
• Planning Hierarchy
• Financial statements and how they tie into the program
• Introduction to Materials Management

Students develop Sales and Operations Plans, identify demands and use forecasts to build a Master Schedule consistent with business policies, objectives and resources constraints. The course also focuses on developing and validating a plan of supply and relating management of demand to the environment. Presented are methods for integrating sales and operations plans, demand forecasts, and customer demand, using aggregate Inventory Management and Rough cut Capacity Management Techniques.

• Forecasting
• Demand Management
• Sales and Operations Planning
• Master scheduling - Available To Promise (ATP)
• Distribution Requirements Planning - DRP
• Quality  

This course focuses on the material and capacity scheduling and planning. It includes a detailed explanation of material requirements planning (MRP), a technique suitable for use in job shops. The course also introduces another materials planning technique, material-dominated scheduling, which is applicable to process industries and other mature production environments. The course explains capacity-requirements-planning techniques, including processor dominated scheduling.  

• Techniques of inventory management

• Material and Capacity Requirements Planning - MRP & CRP

• More bottleneck management

• Suppliers and partnerships

• Capable to promise  

This course focuses on three main areas: prioritizing and sequencing work; executing work plans, implementing controls, and reporting activity result; and evaluating and providing feedback on performance. The course explains techniques for scheduling and controlling production and process operations. It also addresses the execution quality initiatives and continuous improvement plans, as well as controlling and handling inventories. Finally, the course presents techniques for evaluating performance and collecting data for effective feedback.

• Schedule, control, measure, and evaluate (plan, evaluate, and re-plan)
• Schedule development
• Push & pull systems
• Input & Output control
• Bottleneck Management
• Lead-time

In this course, students explore the relationship of existing and emerging Processes and Technologies to manufacturing strategy and supply chain related functions. This course addresses the main topics: aligning resources with the strategy plan; configuring and integrating operating processes to support the strategic plan; and Implementing Change. Included are views of Resource Management and Strategic Problem Solving. For maximum comprehension of course content, students should be familiar with the information and concepts presented in other CPIM modules before taking this course.

• Strategic / business planning - Vision, mission, objectives
• Organizational structure and infrastructure
• Value chain model and Supply chain management
• Operating systems
• Cost management