Access essential educational resources to help you build your knowledge of supply chain practices and to support your certification exam preparation. Listed below is a list of recommended texts for CPIM.
We strongly recommend you begin your preparation with the APICS CPIM Exam Content Manual (ECM). It provides an overview of the CPIM exam program with test specifications, test-taking advice, key terminology, and practice questions.
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The references below are used in preparation for all versions of the CPIM exams, including CPIM 7.0 Part 1, Part 2, and CPIM 8.0.
APICS Dictionary, 16th ed., 2019, APICS
Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World, 2014, Kotter, John P., ISBN: 978-1-62527-174-7
Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases, 22nd ed., 2019, Thompson, Arthur A., Margaret A. Peteraf, John E. Gamble, and A. J. Strickland III, ISBN: 978-1260075106
Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies, 3rd ed., 2008, Simchi-Levi, David, Philip Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-Levi, ISBN: 978-0073341521
Distribution Planning and Control: Managing in the Era of Supply Chain Management, 3rd ed., 2015, Ross, David Frederick, ISBN: 978-1489975775
GRI Standards. Global Reporting Initiative
Introduction to Materials Management, 8th ed., 2017, Chapman, Stephen N., J. R. Tony Arnold, Ann K. Gatewood, and Lloyd M. Clive, ISBN: 978-0134156323
Lean Production Simplified: A Plain Language Guide to the World’s Most Powerful Production System, 3rd ed., 2015, Dennis, P., ISBN: 978-1498708876
Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts, 2nd ed., 2014, Epstein, Marc J., and Adriana Rejc Buhovac, ISBN: 978-1609949938
Managing Quality: Integrating the Supply Chain, 6th ed., 2017, Foster, S. Thomas, ISBN: 978-0133798258
Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management, The CPIM Reference, 2nd ed., 2018, Jacobs, F. Robert, William L. Berry, D. Clay Whybark, and Thomas E. Vollmann, ISBN: 978-1260108385
Operations Strategy, 5th ed., 2017, Slack, N. and Lewis, M., ISBN: 978-1292162492
Technology in Supply Chain Management and Logistics: Current Practice and Future Applications, 2019, Pagano, Anthony M. and Matthew Liotine, ISBN: 978-0128159569
