| AGENDA
FOR CPPM CERTIFICATION PREPARATION |
1st
Friday
Sourcing Analysis and Supply and Inventory Management
1. Conduct decisions to “make or buy”, privatize,
or outsource products or services.
2. Conduct decisions to lease or buy equipment.
3. Develop financing and leveraging strategies for
purchases.
4. Organize, control, and minimize the storage of
materials.
5. Meet with appropriate departments to discuss current
material inventories, and establish restock levels
or just-in-time strategies.
6. Determine sources of and reconcile inventory discrepancies.
7. Handle obsolete equipment/materials, surplus equipment/materials,
and scrap.
8. Develop/implement a standardization program.
9. Develop/implement a process improvement program.
10. Develop a cost reduction/cost avoidance, cost
containment program (e.g., value analysis, consolidation
of orders/suppliers, leadtime reduction, activity
based costing).
11. Coordinate the introduction of new and modified
products and services with appropriate departments.
2nd day
1. Plan purchasing, sourcing, and supply strategies
based on forecasted data.
2. Develop supply plans and strategies based on forecasts
of future demand.
3. Provide forecasted data of future organization
buying requirements to suppliers.
4. Develop and maintain market awareness through merchandise
shows, trade periodicals, and other resources to secure
new product and pricing information.
5. Provide data on current and future market conditions
to management, sales management, and/or user departments.
Management and Organization
1. Develop strategic plans and objectives (short and
long term).
2. Develop goals and objectives of purchasing and
supply department aligned to organizational goals.
3. Plan/develop/provide operating policies, guidelines,
and procedures.
4. Prepare periodic reports of department activities
for senior management and other areas of the organization.
5. Analyze and resolve issues raised in purchasing
and supply audit reports.
6. Develop/utilize criteria for evaluating purchasing
and supply department performance.
Management and Organization
and Human Resource Management
1. Prepare and/or administer a purchasing department/supply
management budget.
2. Design/modify, and/or manage operational forms
(paper and/or electronic).
3. Supervise and lead purchasing and supply staff.
Human Resources Management,
Preparing for the Examination, and Taking the Examination,
Course Critique, and Review of Questions Likely to
be on the Examination
1. Hire, promote, and/or dismiss purchasing and supply
personnel.
2. Evaluate purchasing and supply staff performance.
3. Conduct/authorize job training for the development
of the professional competence of the staff.
4. Resolve employee performance problems.
5. Preparing for the certification examination:
A. What to Study
B. How to Study
C. How long to prepare
D. Practice taking examinations
E. The Day Before the examination
F. The Day of the examination
5. Taking the examination:
A. Types of questions.
B. Construction of questions.
C. Guessing is OK, but eliminate the obvious.
D. Use a calculator!!
E. Put numbers to the words.
F. Have several pencils already sharpened or bring
2 mechanical pencils.
G. Bring some tea or coffee to drink.
H. Go out for lunch if you take both morning and afternoon
tests.
6. Review of areas likely to be tested on the examination.
7. Course critique sheets completed. |
