Education & Certification

Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) Courses

Schedule | Fees | Location & Times | On-Site Training | Register | Course Descriptions

These popular courses provide an extensive coverage of the resource management body of knowledge addressing the variety of principles and practices used in industry today. All courses are presented for a twofold benefit – to enhance your professional career goals and assist you in passing the National CPIM Certification Exam modules.

CPIM provides a common basis for individuals and organizations to evaluate their knowledge of the evolving field of production and inventory management. The program has helped individuals and their organizations become more productive and competitive because it is designed to test candidates' in-depth knowledge of a variety of subjects specific to production and inventory management.

Introduced in 1973 and reconfigured in 2000, CPIM continues to live up to its mission of educating individuals in the concepts, tools, terminology, and integration of topics across operations functions.

CPIM has helped more than 66,000 professionals:

• Learn to predict outcomes more accurately and take actions that achieve results.
• Gain peer and industry recognition.
• Contribute to their organizations' success through increased efficiency across the processes of the supply chain.
• Earn college credit.

Resource Management professionals with a CPIM make up to 23% more than non-certified professionals. CPIM is a requirement for 28% of Resource Management job postings on Internet job sites.

Class Descriptions

On-Site Training

We have many students successfully pass the APICS examinations. Get your name on the list!

CPIM Class Schedule

The extra classes classes enable you to complete your CPIM Certification classes within approximately a year.

We recommend you begin with the BSCM; it is useful for everyone involved in operations, even higher-level managers who are not directly involved in the day-to-day operations of areas such as Planning. It gives a high-level overview of Supply Chain Management which is why we are offering more classes. The rest of the CPIM courses drill down into much greater detail on the subjects introduced in the BSCM.

We recommend you take the SMR course as the last one since it draws heavily on previous courses. However, CPIM certification does not require a specific order. These are for Chapter certificates. The actual APICS certification requires only that you pass the five CPIM examinations.

As we arrange the classrooms and the quantity of books to order based on the number of people registering, please contact Bill Bosman 909-576-2469 or Chuck Jones 818 985-1976 if you register and can't attend the first class. Also call if your plans to attend the class changes.

All fees include the cost of the course workbook and the dinner.

We now offer free online practice exams from ProfessionalTestPro. You have a "learning mode" with immediate feedback and then three practice exams with the scores at the end.

Introduction to Professional Test Pro (PDF 358 KB)

We recommend you have an APICS Dictionary. An APICS member can get one copy free from the National site (http://apics.org). You can get a print book or download a PDF.

Next, the book Introduction to Materials Management by J.R. Tony Arnold has material covered in some of the examinations. You might find a good-condition used one on Amazon. It is also available as an ebook.

We will soon be offering classes in Hawthorne/Torrance. Keep checking back here.

* Skips Christmas and New Year's Day

*** Labor Day 9/2/13 class will be held Wed 9/4/13

Note: If there are not enough students to start a class, we will not start it until there are enough. If the scheduled date above has gone by and you are interested in the class, contact one of the people in More Information below.

CPIM Class Location (Monrovia classes)

Because of economic considerations, it is not possible to conduct a class with less than nine students. We reserve the right to cancel a class in this event.

CPIM Class Fees

Includes dinners, the participant manual and online practice examination questions for the class. You may wish to purchase additional materials available on the APICS National web site.

Payment:
Make check out to APICS San Gabriel Valley.
Bring check to first class session

or

Use PayPal below. If PayPal isn't working for some reason and you need to use a credit card (such as a corporate card), go ahead and send the registration, come to the first class, and we'll work it out.

Note on Member and Non-member rates:

Apply for professional-membership rates as follows:

You can find your member number on an APICS National mailing, immediately below the line of asterisks. It might start with "15...." and is about 7 digits long.

If you're a professional member, enter your APICS member number in the form.

If your company has a corporate membership, enter your company’s member number for you in the form. Group memberships specify the individuals in the group to be professional-level members. If you’re not a specified group member, you do not qualify for the professional rate.

If you’re a student member, enter your student member number in the form.

If you’re bringing (recommended) or mailing a check for the fees, write your member number on the check.

No member number, no professional rate.

 Payment options:

• You can use the PayPal link below the registration form. PayPal will email you an electronic receipt. If you are using someone else’s PayPal account, ensure you send us an email noting that; PayPal lists funds by the account name. If PayPal isn't working for some reason and you need to use a credit card (such as a corporate card), go ahead and send the registration, come to the first class, and we'll work it out.
• Personal or corporate checks accepted. We recommend you bring the check to the first session so you know it’s delivered and can get an immediate receipt. If you are not the name on the check, put your name on the check so we can associate the payment to you.
• Payments must be completed by the second class session.

If PayPal isn't working for some reason and you need to use a credit card (such as a corporate card), go ahead and send the registration, come to the first class, and we'll work it out.

Class (Get the right one!)	Member Fee $445	Guest Fee $495
Basics of Supply Chain Management
Master Planning of Resources
Detailed Scheduling and Planning
Execution and Control of Operations
Strategic Management of Resources

On-Site Training

APICS San Gabriel Valley offers APICS education at your facility. For companies seeking to train 10 or more employees, on-site training is the ideal solution. On-site training helps companies excel by providing uniform instruction at a reasonable price, and minimizing the disruption in workflow by selecting a convenient time and location.

We can customize the length and content of any course and deliver the training at your facility. If a company wants CPIM in a hurry, We can schedule onsite training for up to three times a week. You could complete each of the CPIM courses in about 3 weeks and complete the whole program in less than 4 months.

Want training customized for your business? We can tailor materials to meet your specific needs. If you're an Aerospace company, we can eliminate references to commercial practices or include the MMAS 10 Key Elements, configuration management and other industry specific requirements.

If you're a distributor, we can remove any reference to manufacturing and focus on the sale and movement of goods. If your industry has any specific requirements, we can support your training needs.

If you need Resource Management training but not CPIM, your chapter can provide detailed resource management training in any number of specific topics:

• Inventory Management
• Forecasting
• Planning
• Manufacturing Control
• Operations Management
• Warehouse Management

Low-Cost Employee Training

Our Chapter has recently created an alliance with a local college to supply training for private and for-profit California employers using State and Federal grant funds.

This applies to our on-site training only

We will be using funds from California's Employment Training Panel (ETP) to provide high-quality, low-cost training for qualified employers.

ETP is a California state agency created in 1983 as a cooperative business-labor program to retrain workers. It was designed to fund training that meets the needs of employers for skilled workers and the need of workers for good, long-term jobs.

ETP is the only training program in California that targets the retraining of currently-employed workers.

ETP provides up to $120 million in job training funds annually to employers throughout the state. The source of these monies is the Employment Training Fund (one-tenth of one percent of the subject unemployment insurance wages paid by every private, for-profit employer in the state).

As an employer, you can avoid the paperwork and red tape of dealing directly with the state by using our college source for ETP-funded training.

The state program does not require your company to put down a deposit or pre-pay for training. We incur all expenses. The ETP then reimburses the college for every employee that completes training and remains at your company for at least 90 days after completing their training.

For more information about how APICS On-site Training and Low-Cost Employee Training can help you get what you want, call Chuck Jones (818) 985-1976 (Corporate Knowledge, Inc.) marketing@apics-sgv.org.

Here is an on-site class at Hain Celestial: