{"id":30281,"date":"2014-12-18T21:06:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2014\/12\/19\/production-inventory-management-course-offered-at-necc\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:39:15","slug":"production-inventory-management-course-offered-at-necc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/12\/18\/production-inventory-management-course-offered-at-necc\/","title":{"rendered":"Production &amp; Inventory Management Course Offered at NECC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2014\/12\/APICS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10330\" alt=\"The Association for Operations Management (APICS) - logo\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2014\/12\/APICS-300x159.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>If you work in production and inventory management or want to, then the APICS CPIM Exam Preparation Program offered through Northern Essex Community College at the Riverwalk, 360 Merrimack St., Lawrence might be just for you.<\/p>\n<p>The program includes five noncredit course that will begin January 22.<\/p>\n<p>APICS CPIM designation is the leading industry certification. It is essential for anyone involved in production and inventory management, operations, supply chain management, procurement, materials management, or purchasing.<\/p>\n<p>Taught by R. Bruce Murphy, who has extensive experience in operations, purchasing, inventory\/materials management and supply chain management, the course will review essential terminology, concepts, and strategies. It is co-sponsored by the Boston Chapter of APICS.<\/p>\n<p>The courses include \u201cBasics of Supply Chain Management,\u201d \u201cMaster Planning of Resources,\u201d \u201cDetailed Scheduling and Planning,\u201d \u201cExecution and Control of Operations,\u201d and \u201cStrategic Management of Resources\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the NECC noncredit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/academics\/courses-programs\/non-credit\/\">website<\/a> or contact Dianne Lahaye at dlahaye@necc.mass.edu for more information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you work in production and inventory management or want to, then the APICS CPIM Exam Preparation Program offered through Northern Essex Community College at the Riverwalk, 360 Merrimack St., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":30283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Production &amp; 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