Benefits

After earning your CPIM, you will be able to:

  • Increase inventory accuracy and reduce inventory

  • Improve forecasting

  • Improve the S&OP process

  • Manage and apply capacity resource planning

  • Work more productively with your company’s ERP system

  • Effectively schedule material through the plant

  • Improve operation’s strategic alignment

  • Better manage the Master Production Schedule

  • Improve the results of an Material Requirement Plan (MRP) run

  • Improve inventory storage, flow and handling

  • Positively impact product design activities

  • Manage continuous improvement projects

Areas of Responsibilities

  • Work with an ERP system, either as an IT professionals or system user
  • Work with other manufacturing systems and technologies
  • Planning, at any level of the planning hierarchy
  • Member of an S&OP team
  • Work with the Master Production Schedule
  • Work with Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)
  • Manage capacity requirement planning
  • Manufacturing Inventory management and control
  • Plan procurement and external sources of supply
  • Scheduling, releasing and the tracking production orders and schedules
  • Measure production performance
  • Manufacturing finance