Association for Supply Chain Management

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Association for Supply Chain Management" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Association for Supply Chain Management" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. (March 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

This article needs more links to other articles to help integrate it into the encyclopedia. Please help improve this article by adding links that are relevant to the context within the existing text. (June 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

(Learn how and when to remove this message)

APICS

Formerly	American Production and Inventory Control Society
Founded	1957
Headquarters	Chicago , United States
Website	www.apics.org

APICS is a professional association for supply chain management and a provider of research, education and certification programs.^[1]^[2]

History

In 1957, 20 production control managers formed the American Production and Inventory Control Society.^[3] The organization later became an international association known as APICS.

APICS merged with the Supply Chain Council in 2014 and with American Society of Transportation and Logistics (AST&L)^[4] in 2015. APICS offers several professional designations.

Association for Supply Chain Management

History

References

External links