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CPIM Certification Review Courses
Execution and Control of Operations
This course focuses on three main areas: prioritizing and sequencing
work; executing work plans, implementing controls, and reporting
activity results; and evaluating and providing feedback on performance.
The course explains techniques for scheduling and controlling
production and process operations. It also addresses the execution
of quality initiatives and continuous improvement plans as well
as the control and handling of inventories. Finally, the course
presents techniques for evaluating performance and collecting
data for effective feedback.
In this course you will learn about:
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Prioritizing and Sequencing Work to be Performed |
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- Interfaces
- Production Environment
- Scheduling Production and Process Operation
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Executing Plans, Implementing
Physical Controls, and Reporting Results of Activities Performed |
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- Authorizing and Reporting Activities for Push Systems
- Authorizing and Reporting Activities for Pull systems
- Transaction Reporting
- Communicating Customer-Supplier Information
- Executing Quality Initiatives, Eliminating Waste, and
Implementing Continuous Improvement plans
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Evaluating Performance and Providing
Feedback |
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- Evaluating Quality Management Process
- Monitoring Supplier Performance
- Evaluating Performance of Production Operations
- Evaluating Contractual and Regulatory Compliance and
Cost Performance of Operations
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The format of the course is a mix of lectures, discussions,
and exercises. Quiz questions are included at the end of each
of the ten sessions to reinforce the review process. Each student
will receive a participant workbook and the current CPIM Exam
Content Manual. A student completing this course will receive
a certificate of completion for 30 hours of continuing education.
Master Planning of Resources
In this module, candidates explore processes used to develop
sales and operations plans; identify and assess internal and external
demand and forecasting requirements; and gain an understanding
of the importance of producing achievable master schedules that
are consistent with business policies, objectives, and resource
constraints.
The main topics covered include:
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Demand Management |
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- Relating Demand Management to the Distribution Environment
- Forecasting Demand
- Recognizing and Processing Actual Demand
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Sales and Operations Planning |
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- Relating the Planning Processes to the Environment
- Understanding Business Choices that Affect the Aggregate
Planning Process
- Developing and Validating the Sales and Operations Plan
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Master Scheduling |
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- Relating the Master Scheduling Process to the Business
Environment
- Understanding the Business Choices that Affect the Master
Scheduling Process
- Constructing and Implementing the Master Schedule
- Measuring the Business Planning Processes
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Strategic Management of Resources
Strategic Management of Resources is the capstone of the five
CPIM Review courses. In this module, candidates explore the relationship
of existing and emerging processes and technologies to manufacturing
strategy and supply chain-related functions.
The module addresses the following topics:
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Aligning the Resources with the Strategic
Plan |
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- Competitive Market Issues
- Choices Affecting Facilities
- Choices Affecting the Supply Chain
- Choices Affecting Information Technology
- Choices Affecting Organizational Design
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Configuring and Integrating the
Operating Process to Support the Strategic Plan |
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- The Priority Planning Process
- The capacity Planning Process
- Design and Development Processes
- The Cost Management Processes
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Implementing Change |
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- Evaluating and Managing Projects
- Measuring Organizational Performance
- Managing Change in an Organization
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The format of the courses are a mix of lectures, discussions,
and exercises. Quiz questions are included at the end of each
of the ten sessions to reinforce the review process. Each student
will receive a participant workbook and the current CPIM Exam
Content Manual.
Basics of Supply Chain Management
This is an introductory course for production and inventory management
personnel and CPIM candidates. This course provides basic definitions
and concepts for planning and controlling the flow of materials
into, through, and out of an organization. It explains fundamental
relationships among the activities that occur in the supply chain
from suppliers to customers. In addition, the course addresses
types of manufacturing systems, forecasting, master planning,
material requirements planning, capacity management, production
activity control, purchasing, inventory management, distribution,
quality management, and Just-in-Time manufacturing.
Topics to be covered include:
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Business wide Concepts |
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- Elements of the Supply Chain
- Operating Environments - Financial Fundamentals
- Manufacturing Resource Planning
- Just-in-Time - Total Quality Management
- Relationships among MRP II, JIT, and TQM
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Demand Planning |
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- Market place driven
- Customer Expectations and Definition of Value
- Customer Relationships
- Demand Management
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Transformation of Demand into
Supply |
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- Design
- Capacity Management
- Planning
- Execution and Control
- Performance Measurements
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Supply |
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- Inventory
- Purchasing
- Physical Distribution System
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Detailed Scheduling and Planning
This course focuses on 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 material planning technique, material-dominated
scheduling, which is applicable to process industries and other
mature production environments. This course explains capacity
requirements planning in detail and introduces other capacity-planning
techniques, including processor-dominated scheduling.
In this course you will learn about:
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Planning Material Requirements to Support
the Master Schedule |
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- Recognizing Techniques and Practices of Inventory
- Identifying Information Used in Material Planning
- Identifying the Desirable Characteristics of the Detailed
Material Planning Process
- Mechanics of the Detailed Material Planning Process
- Maintaining the Validity of the Material Plan
- Interactions with Other Systems (closing the loop)
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Planning Operations to Support
the Priority Plan |
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- Recognizing the Characteristics and Techniques of the
Detailed Capacity Planning Process
- Identifying Information used in the Detailed Capacity
Planning Process
- Identifying Desirable Characteristics of the Detailed
Capacity Planning Process
- Uses of the Detailed Capacity Planning Process
- Measuring the Performance of the Detailed Capacity Planning
Process
- Interactions with Other Systems
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Planning Procurement and External
Sources of Supply |
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- Establishing Relationships with Suppliers
- Techniques and Concepts for Supplier Partnerships
- Implementing the new relationship
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