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American
Production and Inventory Control Society, APICS
Founded in 1957 as the American Production and Inventory
Control Society, APICS has since expanded its focus to include a full range of programs
and materials on individual and organizational education, standards of excellence, and
integrated resource management. To reflect this new direction, we are now known as
APICS—The Educational Society for Resource Management.APICS—The
Educational Society for Resource Management is a not-for-profit international educational
organization respected throughout the world for its education and professional
certification programs. With over 60,000 individual and corporate members in 20,000
companies worldwide, APICS is dedicated to using education to improve the business bottom
line.
APICS is
recognized globally as:
the source
of knowledge and expertise for manufacturing and service industries across the entire
supply chain in such areas as materials management, information services, purchasing and
quality.
the leading
provider of high-quality, cutting-edge educational programs that advance organizational
success in a changing, competitive marketplace
a
successful developer of two internationally recognized certification programs, Certified
in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and Certified in Integrated Resource
Management (CIRM)
a source of
solutions, support, and networking local chapters, workshops, symposia, and the annual
APICS International Conference and Exposition
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Supply Chain Event Management
One of the
newest morsels on the tech industry's buffet of buzzwords is Supply Chain
Event Management (SCEM). And though, in the past, enterprise software
buyers seemingly displayed an insatiable appetite for the latest acronym,
times have changed. A tighter economy and jaded IT community have analysts
trying harder to define SCEM and corporate managers working diligently to
understand whether or not they need it.
Unlike CRM and some other popular "techronyms," SCEM hasn't
ballooned into an all-encompassing category of its own with blurry
boundaries. Analysts appear to agree that
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