if you want to be an international buyer or purchaser, You can't help but know
1. CIPS (chartered institute of purchasing and supply)
2. CPM (ISM-certification program of American Supply Chain Association)
3. ITC (UNCTAD)
4. CIP (PMAC-Canadian Purchasing Management Association).
5.CPPM (CPPM here does not refer to the certification associated with CPM)
Each certification training basically focuses on market analysis, supplier selection, procurement negotiation, contract management, logistics distribution, and performance evaluation, but there is still a big difference between them.
Usually, it needs to be based on the historical length, popularity, composition and scale of the trainees, and the rigor of the examination. Whether you have your own teaching system and teaching materials, and so on.
One or two of them belong to internationally renowned certificates, ITC is inferior, followed by CIP(PMAC) and CPPM.
CIPS has a history of more than 8 years, with dynamic members (both holding CIPS purchasing and supply manager certificates and registered students) and about 14 full-time staff. Every year, the General Assembly of Global Purchasing Alliance is held by CIPS, and the exams are conducted at the same time (regardless of the time difference). In many universities offering supply chain management majors in Commonwealth countries, CIPS high-level certificates (divided into FOUNDATION STAGE and ADVANCED STAGE diplomas) can be credited to the corresponding courses. Its biweekly publication <: > And monthly magazine <: > They are well-known magazines in the field of procurement.
CPM is an American project, and its curriculum system is also very complete. The cost of its shortcomings is too high, which is about twice that of CIPS1. Moreover, due to copyright and other reasons, the introduction of its learning materials into Chinese has always been a problem, and it is also an obstacle to choose bilingual examinations. In addition, since no teacher training courses have been held in China, The lecturer's understanding of the system is not comprehensive enough. All of the above are related to the American style of focusing on me. However, at present, the channels are a bit confusing. Some of them are authorized by ISM itself, and some of them are authorized by Hongkong. As a result, the exams that should be held in May of the first half of 27 have been suspended, and I don't know if they will be normal in the second half of 27. The current training system of CPM in China is that ISM is sold to China Materials Association (China Federation of Purchasing and Logistics) for 4, US dollars. It is a non-governmental organization
ITC is an organization under UNCTAD. In the past, it was aimed at some members who received its aid projects, but it did not have much prestige in enterprise procurement. If you have access to its original textbooks, you can see that its textbook system was donated by CIPS. Moreover, the current domestic ITC training examination is in cooperation with the China Federation of Logistics Purchasing, which is divided into two types, Chinese and English, with different contents. The certificates obtained are different. However, China Federation of Logistics Purchasing continues to use its main teachers (from Beijing Jiaotong University, Institute of Materials, etc.) in logistics division training, so the connection between theory and practical work is not enough. At present, some resident organizations of the United Nations in China, such as UNICEF/UNDP, all have employees taking CIPS training exams, but they do not choose ITC.
PMAC is a Canadian project, which is rather chaotic in China. The domestic organizer is UDS Education Software Company. The teaching materials are taken from five kinds of public publications, and the examination replaces the examination. Except for the authorization of PMAC, it is in a state of no teaching materials, no teachers and no examinations.)
Simply put, CIPS and CPM are high-end certifications, and ITC is also a choice that buyers can consider, while others need to be avoided.