Certificate programs for supply chain management professionals
Advance your career and stand out in an increasingly hot job market by earning a certificate! ASCM certificate programs offer a flexible method to develop key skills while building knowledge about focused supply chain topics. After passing a final exam, you’ll earn a digital badge and a certificate that never expires.
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Demonstrate your commitment to continuing education and stand out among the competition when you earn an ASCM certificate and digital badge.
- Supply chain planning certificate
- Supply chain warehousing certificate
- Supply chain procurement certificate
- Supply chain technology certificate
Each certificate costs 795$CAD. For ASCM members, each certificate costs 610$CAD.
Certificates are available in English only.
To order, please contact secretariat@ascmmontreal.com or call (438) 391-8311
Supply chain planning certificate
What is the Supply Chain Planning Certificate?
The Supply Chain Planning Certificate Program teaches you the fundamentals of supply chain planning with a focus on synchronized planning.
Synchronized planning is a cross functional approach to planning that engages multiple functional stakeholders working together to align their plans and strategies to create a cohesive and integrated plan that supports your organization goals and objectives.
The Supply Chain Planning Certificate enables you to:
- Understand the flow of planning from business plan to execution
- Link business strategy to company plans
- Contribute to production and control activities
- Interpret and manage the master production schedule
- Interpret and manage the material requirements plan
- Determine order and reorder points
- Create a channel tree design for a distribution system
- Identify technologies to support synchronous planning
- Supply chain planning certificate
Top reasons to get the supply planning certificate
Career Advancement
Stand out in a competitive job market with a digital badge proving competence in a critical supply chain function.
Flexibility
Make this self-paced certificate work for your schedule and enjoy lifetime access to course material
Credibility
Gain education from ASCM, the gold standard in supply chain education, training, and development.
What is covered in the course
- The supply chain Planning certificate provides you with the technical knowledge and strategies
- To use synchronized planning for effective end-product production. A brief overview of the key items you learn in the course include:
– What is Synchronized Planning?
– Strategic Planning – Business planning
– Strategic Planning – Demand Planning and S&OP
– Tactical Planning – Master Scheduling / MRP
– Operations Execution – Purchasing and Production Activity Control, APS
– Distribution and Logistics Planning
– How does the Planning Certificate program work?
The planning Certificate’s course is a self-paced online program that includes:
- 20 hours of education
- Flashcards, video clips and practice questions to help cultivate a stronger understanding of each topic.
- A comprehensive final exam
After passing the exam, receive a certificate and digital badge that you can display on your LinkedIn profile and within your email signature. Additionally, earn 20 certification maintenance points upon program completion.
Supply chain warehousing certificate
Top three reasons to get started
Career Advancement
Warehouse employment has reached a new peak as e-commerce sales continue to climb. Stand out among the competition with a digital badge demonstrating your knowledge of this important role in the supply chain.
Flexibility
The certificate program is self-paced and available on mobile devices, so you can take your learnings wherever you go.
Credibility
ASCM is the gold standard in supply chain education, training and development. Prologis is the world’s leader in logistics real estate solutions for top retail, e-commerce and logistics companies.
What’s covered in the program
Earning this certificate shows employers you have the knowledge and capability to:
- Take part in the loading and shipping processes, and work with common shipping documents.
- Schedule shipments and use various methods to track the shipments.
- Follow an effective order fulfillment cycle and work to improve order accuracy and efficiency.
- Use inventory management systems in warehouses and distribution centers to accurately report the quantity and value of the materials received, stored and shipped to customers.
- Categorize inventory and manage the costs associated with holding inventory.
- Manage customer returns.
- Follow environmentally sustainable work practices on the job.
- Implement a structured problem-solving process to deal with problems in warehouses or distribution centers.
- Make appropriate decisions about the use of different types of transportation carriers, understanding their characteristics and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
- Apply different performance metrics to measure the success of a facility in the warehousing and distribution industry.
How it Works?
The exam tests the skills learned in the Supply Chain Warehouse Certificate course. This self-paced education program features a series of courses designed to help you learn about leading practices across the warehousing and distribution industries.
After passing the exam, you will receive a certificate and a digital badge that you can display on your LinkedIn profile and in your email signature. Additionally, learners can earn 20 certification maintenance points upon completion of the program.
Supply chain procurement certificate
What is the Supply Chain Procurement Certificate?
The Supply Chain Procurement Certificate program is a foundational education program designed to help both entry-level and experienced supply chain professionals expand their procurement knowledge and skills.
The program provides an overview of procurement fundamentals, sourcing strategies, supplier relationship management, negotiations, evaluation metrics, and more.
You’ll be better equipped to:
- Develop a strategic sourcing strategy
- Establish effective procurement policies
- Effectively score supplier capabilities and select optimal suppliers
- Engage in more effective contract management negotiations
- Trace the purchase order flow from requirements identification to purchase order close-out
- Review supplier and internal procurement organization performance using data and metrics
- Engage in sustainable and ethical sourcing
Top three reasons to get started
Career advancement
Stand out in a competitive job market with a digital badge proving competence in a critical function of the supply chain.
Flexibility
The certificate program is self-paced so you can make it work for your schedule. You’ll have lifetime access to the course materials.
Credibility
ASCM is the gold standard in supply chain education, training, and development.
How it Works?
The self-paced program includes 20 hours of education and a comprehensive final exam within an interactive online platform. You will also have access to flashcards, video clips, practice questions and more to help cultivate a stronger understanding of each topic.
After passing the exam, you will earn your certificate and a digital badge that you can display on your LinkedIn profile and within your email signature. Additionally, learners can earn 20 certification maintenance points upon completion of the program.
Supply chain technology certificate
What is the Supply Chain Technology Certificate ?
Are you looking for a way to advance your career? Stand out in a competitive job market with the new ASCM Supply Chain Technology Certificate. This certificate gives you an understanding of how to implement the latest technologies in your supply chain organization to reduce costs, boost performance and achieve a more sustainable supply chain.
You’ll learn about the newest supply chain technologies through case studies from globally recognized organizations.
After completing the program, you’ll know how to :
- Streamline and improve operational performance using key technologies
- Bolster reliability and advance processes by proposing new solutions
- Minimize security threats and effectively evaluate the benefits and risks of various supply chain technologies
- Make informed and reliable decisions directly affecting overall supply chain performance
Top three reasons to get started
Technology in Supply Chain
Stand out in a competitive job market with a digital badge proving competence in critical supply chain technologies.
Blockchain Technology and Supply Chain
Explore how blockchain and other emerging technologies can support and improve operations within the supply chain industry.
Credibility
ASCM is the gold standard in supply chain education, training and development.
What’s in the course?
Blockchain
You’ll learn how blockchain can allow for more transparent supply chains, improve product traceability, and enable smart contracts within the industry to maintain a digital record of workflows and processes.
Advanced Analytics and Automation
Learn how predictive analytics uses machine learning algorithms and data mining to predict future events and how prescriptive analytics takes it one step further by providing specific recommendations based on available data. Understand how artificial intelligence and robotics can be implemented in supply chain to automate routine tasks.
Internet of Things
Learn about the infrastructure of the Internet of things, what it means for supply chain, and how digital twins can help companies make data-driven decisions. Explore how connected logistics and smart production can streamline operations, cut costs and shorten delivery times.
Cybersecurity
Discover the latest governance in cybersecurity, anti-hacking technology and access controls to manage, assess, mitigate and monitor your network.
Demand Planning Technologies
This section will cover the reliability of supply chain forecasting technology, the integration of enabling technology, and the role of data and pattern recognition for inventory management and production.
Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)
Learn about additive manufacturing in supply chain, appropriate use cases and in-house vs. outsourcing considerations.
How it Works?
The Technology Certificate course is a self-paced online program that includes :
- 20 hours of education
- Video clips and practice questions to help cultivate a stronger understanding of each topic
- A comprehensive final exam
After passing the exam, receive a certificate and digital badge that you can display on your LinkedIn profile and within your email signature. Additionally, earn 20 certification maintenance points upon program completion.
