CSCP Exam Reference Materials

We have the best educational resources available 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 CSCP.

We strongly recommend you begin your preparation with the APICS CSCP
Exam Content Manual (ECM). It provides an overview of the curriculum with
test specifications, test-taking advice, key terminology, and Q&A. The CSCP
ECM is free to ASCM PLUS and CORE members. Nonmembers can purchase
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CSCP References
 APICS Dictionary, 15th edition. Purchase the printed dictionary or get
the eDownload

 Supply Chain Logistics Management, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2013 – Donald

Bowersox, David Closs, M. Bixby Cooper.

 A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, 5th edition - Project

Management Institute, Inc. 2013.

 Supply Chain Risk Management: An Emerging Discipline. CRC Press, 2014,

Gregory L. Schlegel and Robert J. Trent.

 Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Five Core Disciplines for Top
Performance, 2nd edition, Mc-Graw-Hill Education, 2013. Shoshanah Cohen
and Joseph Roussel.

 Principles of Supply Chain Management – Richard E. Crandall, William R.

Crandall, Charlie C. Chen.

 Introduction to Supply Chain Management Technologies, 2nd edition – David

F. Ross, CFPIM.

 Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case
Studies, 3rd edition – David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-
Levi.
 UN Global Compact Brochure, UN Global Compact Office 2014. Free
download.
 UN Global Compact Management Model 2010 – Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu,
Welcome message by Georg Kell, forward by John Connolly. Free download.
 The G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines, Global Reporting 2011. Free
download.

Additional Resources

These articles were selected by the APICS CSCP Certification Exam

Committee and address the core concepts and competencies related to the
APICS CSCP exam.

 APICS Supply Chain Strategy Report

 Don’t Let Your Supply Chain Control Your Business

 Finding your Strategy in the New Landscape

 Seven Myths to Beat Before They Beat You

 The Ten Commandments of Legal Risk Management

 Unprofitable Customers and Their Management

 Best Value Supply Chains: A key Competitive Weapon for the 21st Century

 Don’t Tweak Your Supply Chain—Rethink It End to End

 Fudging the Supply Chain to Hit the Number: Five Common Practices that
Sacrifice the Supply Chain and What Financial Analysts Should Ask about
Them