The Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) certification is essential for professionals involved in the areas of supplier and customer relations, international trade, the use of information technology to enable the supply chain, and physical logistics. Candidates must pass one exam covering:

Module 1: Supply Chains, Demand Management, and Forecasting
Module 2: Global Supply Chain Networks
Module 3: Sourcing Products and Services
Module 4: Internal Operations and Inventory
Module 5: Forward and Reverse Logistics
Module 6: Supply Chain Relationships
Module 7: Supply Chain Risk
Module 8: Optimization, Sustainability, and Technology

Officially, CPIM focuses primarily on manufacturing and provides an in-depth view of materials management, master scheduling, production planning, forecasting, and quality improvement within an organization, while CSCP takes a broader view to encompass all steps throughout the supply chain.

This ExamFOCUS Study Notes builds a solid focus while revisiting key examination topics relevant to the CSCP exam. It helps in straight-forward fundamental knowledge establishment. The real CSCP exam questions do not appear to be as straight forward though. In fact, many questions are presented to do nothing other than to get you totally confused... Just bear in mind, you will need to do a lot of logical thinking to figure out the best possible answers....