Basics Supply Chain Management – BSCM – APICS – Interactive Learning

The Basics of Supply Chain Management (BSCM) module is the first part of APICS CPIM certification. It provides fundamental knowledge about managing the complete flow of materials in the supply chain from the supplier to the customer.

Advance has designed the Webinar BSCM Interactive Learning mode to meet the needs of candidates who for personal or professional reasons cannot attend the classroom lessons of in-house company courses.

Participants can combine private study with seven one-and-a-half hour sessions of group conference call sessions led by a certified instructor. The conference call sessions are held weekly.

The course finishes with a discussion of the results of a mock exam. At the end of the course participants will take the final BSCM exam with APICS who will issue a certificate to those successfully completing the exam.

The BASICS tutorial program is an ideal tool for augmenting business knowledge and for creating a shared knowledge base for personnel in a production facility.

Course objectives:

• To provide basic knowledge about managing the complete flow of materials in the supply chain from the supplier to the customer.

• To introduce and explain in detail the professional terminology used in the Production & Inventory Management area.

The course comprises:

• Seven afternoon Webinar sessions led by certified instructors.

• An individual private study stage with the distance support of instructors.

• A mock Basics of Supply Chain Management (BSCM) exam on our on-line platform with correction and discussion of results via Webinar.

LANGUAGE: English

PROGRAMME

The course comprises the following teaching modules:

Business-wide concepts

• Organization fundamentals
• Operating Environments
• Product/Process matrix
• Financial fundamentals
• Manufacturing resource planning
• Just-in-Time
• Total Quality Management
• Impact of environment on system design and deployment

Demand planning

• Marketplace-Driven
• Customer Expectations and Definitions of Value
• Customer Relationships
• Demand Management and factors influencing Demand
• Forecasting models

Transformation of demand into supply

• Design for transformation process
• Sales and operations planning
• Capacity management
• Planning (purposes, inputs and outputs)
• MPS/MRP
• Execution and control
• Performance measurements

Supply

• Inventory management
• Functions of inventory
• ABC analysis
• Economic order quantity
• Purchasing and supplier relationship
• Physical distribution system

For this module APICS will issue a certificate to those who pass the exam.

After success in the BSCM exam, candidates can choose to follow the path to CPIM certification by completing the other four APICS modules.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

• Newly recruited personnel for rapid deployment in the company logistics or manufacturing functions.
• Recently appointed logistics and manufacturing managers and staff personnel.
• Managers of other company functions who wish to increase and consolidate their skills in supply chain management.
• Personnel who need to use English in their work relationships and need a good command of the basic concepts and professional terminology in the Operations Management area.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
There are no requirements for admission to the course and to the certification programme.

COURSE FEE
The course fee covers:

• APICS training material.

The fee does not include exam registration.