CPIM Inventory.pdf

The APICS CPIM Learning System, Part 2, Book 2, covers two main modules: Module 5 (Inventory) and Module 6 (Detailed Schedules).

Module 5 is divided into five sections:
- Section A (Inventory Planning) discusses purposes and goals of inventory, inventory types, inventory policy, and item segmentation.
- Section B (Inventory Management) explores push or pull replenishment, economic order quantity, dynamic and fixed order quantity techniques, safety stock, and special inventory.
- Section C (Inventory Costs, Value, and Metrics) delves into inventory costs and risk pooling, inventory valuation, and inventory metrics.
- Section D (Inventory Control) focuses on inventory storage, flow, and handling, inventory accuracy, and inventory traceability.
- Section E (Waste Hierarchy and Reverse Logistics) examines waste hierarchy, reverse logistics, and disposition process.

Module 6 is divided into four sections:
- Section A (Planning Detailed Schedules) outlines detailed scheduling road map, schedules and throughput, and production activity control.
- Section B (Scheduling and PAC Methods) covers scheduling and PAC road map, MRP-based scheduling and PAC, lean scheduling, lean-based PAC, TOC scheduling and PAC, and nonstandard demand.
- Section C (Production Schedules) discusses scheduling and capacity planning road map, capacity planning in service industries, CRP inputs, tools, and outputs, loading and balancing, intermittent and flow processes, push/pull in intermittent and flow processes, and labor schedules and staffing.
- Section D (Using Detailed Schedules) explores scheduling production and labor, routings and queue sizes, capacity planning performance, managing exceptions, and scheduling incoming materials.