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Professional Development Activities
Continuing Education
Continuing education, including college/university courses, seminars and conferences, workshops, in-house educational offerings sponsored by your employer, and home-study courses on the following topics are eligible for Professional Development Points.
Refer to the Certification Maintenance Bulletin for guidelines on professional development point allocations.
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Accounting
Accounting Management
Accounting Software Training
Analysis and Decision Making
Asset Management
Basics of Supply Chain Management
Bottleneck Management and Production Sequencing
Business Forecasting
Business Law
Business Policy
Business Process Modeling and Redesign
Business Process Reengineering
Business Psychology
Business Statistics
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Certified Public Accountants Exam Preparation
CIRM Certification Review Courses
Computer Communication
Computer Organization
Computer Software Training Course
CPIM Certification Review Courses
CPM Review Courses
Critical Thinking
Database Management
Demand - Flow Techniques
Distribution Resource Planning (DRP)
Economics
Enterprises Resource Planning (ERP)
Executive Management
Finance
Financial Analysis
Financial Integration
Global Dimensions in Business
Human Resource Management
Industrial Engineering
Integrative Planning and Control
International Purchasing
Inventory Management
Inventory Software Training
Invoicing
Location and Lot Control (Warehousing)
Management
Management Accounting
Management of Information Systems Technology
Management of the Total Enterprise
Managerial Accounting
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Managerial Finance
Managing Business Information Systems
Manufacturing Planning
Manufacturing System Training
Marketing
Marketing Management
Master Planning
Material and Capacity Requirements Planning
Meetings Management
MGI Home Study Courses
Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
Multi-Site Implementation Strategies
New Product Development
Object-Oriented Abstraction and Design
Operating Systems
Operations Analysis
Operations Management
Optimizing Financial Goals Within the Supply Chain
Order Processing
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Development
Philosophy of Values and Ethics
Policy Formulation
Principles of Management
Production Control
Production Management
Production Planning
Project Management
Project Management for Information Systems
Purchasing
Quality Management
Resource Management
Sales Delivery and Invoicing
Sales Orders
SAP Training
Secured Credit
Statistical Analysis
Statistical Inventory Control
Statistical Methods
Strategic Management and Policy
Structured Programming Applications
Team Building
Theory of Constraints
Transportation Management
Warehouse Management
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Seminars/Conferences
Attendance at the APICS International Conference and Exposition as well as resource management-related seminars/sessions offered by the following organizations are approved. This is not an exhaustive list, but rather a sample of the variety of sponsoring organizations recognized by the Certification Maintenance program.
American Management Association (AMA)
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
Association of Manufacturing Engineers (AME)
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
Australasian Production and Inventory Control Society
Council of Logistics Management (CLM)
CPIM de France
Direct Marketing Association (DMA)
Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
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Presentations, Publications, and Educational Development
Professional Development points are awarded for conducting the following programs related to resource management:
Conferences
Courses (including certification review courses)
Meetings (instructional)
Seminars
Tutorials
Workshops
Other presentations
Points can also be earned for an article or contribution on a subject matter relating to resource management in the following:
- Book
- Booklet
- Magazine
- Monograph
- Newsletter
- Proceedings
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Professional Membership/Service to the Resource Management Profession
Professional Development points are awarded for professional membership in or participation on the governing board of the following organizations:
American Management Association (AMA)
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
Association of Manufacturing Engineers (AME)
American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
Australasian Production and Inventory Control Society
Council of Logistics Management (CLM)
CPIM de France
Direct Marketing Association (DMA)
Institute of Business Forecasting (IBF)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Institute of Management Accountants (IMA)
National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
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