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APICS offers CPIM, CSCP and CLTD certifications, considered as the gold standards across the globe by the supply chain community. The three certifications in its expanded form reads as

• Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)
• Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) and

CPIM stands for Certified in Production and Inventory Management.  

Since 1973, CPIM has been recognized as the standard of professional competence in production and inventory management. Companies across the globe rely on Certified in Production and Inventory Management designees to maximize return-on-investment, and increase customer satisfaction.

The Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) certification consists of two parts that is CPIM Part-1 and CPIM Part-2. One needs to complete both the parts to be certified in CPIM.

CPIM Part-1 covers Introduction to Supply Chain Management, Demand Management, Master Planning, Materials Requirement Planning, Capacity Management,

An effective S&OP process helps the management of any business in business decisions, strategies, and control over the business to make it successful. APICS has made a research on S&OP on various aspects like reasons for underperformance in S&OP, strategy to manage complexity, variability in demand and sales forecast and major shortcomings of S&OP. 

A quick search in LinkedIn, a professional networking platform reveals that India has about 20 Lakh professionals having account in LinkedIn. If we assume that only 50% of the supply chain professionals have account in LinkedIn then we can estimate that India has around 40 Lakh professionals in the SCM domain.

The search was carried out on 20-July-2017 with the keywords such as supply chain, logistics, transportation,