Certification Overview
Each SCPro™ Fundamentals track lead to a unique certification. Columbus State offers eight online, self-paced
courses that prepares students to pass SCPro™ Fundamentals certification exams. More
information about each of the eight certification tracks is included below:
Principles of Supply Chain - Provides an overview of supply chain terminology and technology. This course will
serve to familiarize participants with the interrelationships among the functional
areas of the supply chain.
Transportation Operations - Provides knowledge of the principles behind transportation management and processes
in the supply chain. Emphasis on traffic management and its role in carrier selection,
rate determination and rate negotiation.
Customer Service Operations - Focuses on order fulfillment and service operations activities from the initial
inquiry to post sales service. Explores the impact customer service decisions have
on supply chain operations.
Warehousing Operations - Focuses on different types of warehousing, storage and handling; strategic planning;
the effect of design and service decisions on logistics; cost; and customer service.
Inventory Management - Offers knowledge of inventory management essentials, including different approaches
and variables that affect decisions. Exposure to bar-coding systems; picking and delivery
processes; and storage and sorting systems.
Procurement - Focuses on the importance of evaluation, selection and maintenance of supplier functions
and integration of internal functions with external supply chain partners.
Demand Planning - Provides knowledge of essentials for sales and operations planning, integrating
demand forecasts with capacity forecasts and marketing with sales functions.
Manufacturing & Service Operations - Focuses on planning, organizing, controlling, directing, motivating, and coordinating
activities used to produce goods and services. Explores analytical tools useful in
measuring productivity.
This program was funded in whole by a $24.5M TAACCCT grant awarded by the U.S. Department
of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration to the LINCS in Supply Chain Management
consortium.