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The Chartered Institute of Operations and Supply Chain Professionals, CIOSCP, is an offshoot of the Institute of Supply Chain Management Professionals. The Governing Council of the Institute of Supply Chain Management Professionals deemed it fit to upgrade the Institute to Chartered-ship and broaden its scope with the name Chartered Institute of Operations and Supply Chain Professionals, CIOSCP.

The Chartered Institute of Operations and Supply Chain Professionals is focused on solving the challenges faced by most corporate entities in respect to:

  1. Sourcing of suppliers and raw materials
  2. Vendor management.
  1. The movement of raw materials from the suppliers to the purchasing entity.
  2. The processing of the raw materials to finished goods.
  3. The distribution of finished goods to the final consumers.

 

The Chartered Institute of Operations and Supply Chain Professionals deals with personnel who manages day-to-day operations of their organization or the entire supply chain of their organization or a particular aspect of supply chain or operations.

It is important to note that operations and supply chain professionals make vital key decisions to their organizations in respect to vendors, procurement, quality management, processing and manufacturing, warehousing, inventory management, logistics and transportation, packaging distribution.

The Chartered Institute of Operations and Supply Chain Professionals is a combination of operations and supply chain professionals. These two professionals are integral part of their organizations.

The operations professionals focus on the following key aspects:

 

  1. Play the managerial functions of coordinating and directing manufacturing and all relative aspect of it which entails packaging, pricing, distributing and sales.
  2. Ensure that data is effectively evaluated for decision making purpose in respect to business operations and cost.
  3. Relate with financial team for effective management of production and sales.
  1. Ensure a good design of work schedules and affectively managing operational staff by assigning specific duties in line with the work schedules.
  2. Ensure the efficient drafting of budget with reality and forecast objective.
  3. Play vital role in product performance in respect to sales and innovation.
  4. Design standard operating procedures for efficient and effective usage of the organizational resources.
  5. Audit operational expenditures and ensure compliance with operational budget.
  6. Ensure that operational team is business target oriented.
  7. Ensure customer satisfaction is achieved by encouraging customer operational relationship.
  8. Play vital role in operational safety and risk.
  9. Document operational activities in an accepted described standards.
  10. Make vital decisions in respect to whether a production firm should produce or outsource.
  11. Relate with Human Resource department in respect to recruitment, selection, appraisal, compensations, bonuses, promotion and possible retraining of existing staff.
  12. Assist in the redesigning of product and innovation for the purpose of market.

The Supply Chain Professionals focus on the following key aspects:

 

  1. Organize and coordinate the total supply chain components of the organization.
  1. Ensure effective and continuous supply of raw materials.
  2. Ensure suppliers evaluation, credibility and efficiency.
  3. Promote strategic supply  relationship management  between the suppliers and the purchasing entity.
  4. Efficient and effective inventory management and control.
  5. Efficient and effective management of procurement.
  6. Efficient and effective management of warehousing and stores.
  7. Efficient and effective management of logistics.
  8. Efficient and effective coordination of supply chain activities with other departments of the organization.
  9. Ensure that products are quality oriented in order to meet customers’ satisfaction.
  10. Efficient and effective management of supply chain.
  11. Ensure that demand of products is forecast to meet the reality of the market.
  12. Ensure the reduction of cost of production.
  13. Ensure that products or services are customers oriented and accepted.
  14. Ensure that the organization has the reasonable best market for the products by adopting favorably and suitable marketing strategies for effective sales of the products.
  15. Provides a smooth procurement management planning and implementation.
  16. Provides quick and effective customer relationship.

The Chartered Institute of Operations and Supply Chain Professionals is a chartered professional body for professionals and prospective professionals who are in the practice of operations management, operations control, supply chain management, inventory auditing, supply management, logistics management, transport, inventory management, warehousing and stores, procurement, manufacturing operations, and supervision, quality control and assurance materials management and etc.

Operations and Supply Chain Professionals are integral components of any organization whether manufacturing or services. There is no organization that can perform excellently without a good operations and supply chain management. The Chartered Institute of Operations and Supply Chain Professionals ensure that our members are equipped and exposed with the professional knowledge needed to perform their jobs professionally in order to ensure business growth and development. When businesses grow, economy grows. When businesses witness decrease, economy also witness decrease. Business and economy is sine qua non. Organizations are managed by people and the personnel who manage the organization determine the survival and growth of the organization.

Our purpose of existence is to empower personnel with efficient and effective knowledge in the aspect of all areas of supply chain management ranging from supply management, procurement management, operations management, inventory management, logistics management, warehousing and store management and supply chain management.

The Chartered Institute of Operations and Supply Chain Professionals, CIOSCP, is strongly of the opinion that it is unhealthy for corporate entities to have untrained or nonprofessionals to occupy the various department of operations and supply chain management. It is for this reason we deemed it fit to train personnel in operations and supply chain management in order to have organizations succeed in an uncertain and turbulent business environment.

The Chartered Institute of Operations and Supply Chain Professionals, CIOSCP, understands that the 21st century commercial activities have gone beyond producing, buying and selling. CIOSCP understood that when goods and services move, money also moves and also in the chains of businesses ranging from the suppliers of materials, processing of raw materials to finished goods and the distribution of the finished goods to the customers, there are uncertainties and risks that can be controlled or not be controlled. It is on this ground that corporate entities must ensure that their personnel are well trained and equipped to manage all the various chains of business activities.

PHILOSOPHY

Our philosophy is that business is sine qua non to economy. When business activities increase, the economy prospers. When business activities decrease, the economy witness recession.

OBJECTIVES

1.CIOSCP shall be a professional body for those involved in all facets of supply chain management ranging from procurement, operations, supply chain management, inventory management, warehousing and store management, transport and logistics, vendor management.
2.To develop and enhance the quality standard and practice in operations and supply chain management.
3.To undertake research for the purpose of promoting and advancing knowledge in operations and supply chain management.
4.To collaborate and partner with other professional bodies and educational institutions with the aim to promote and advance the knowledge in operations and supply chain management.
5.To promote and maintain an ethical standard of professionalism among members.
6.To promote knowledge in operations and supply chain management through the platforms of seminars, conferences, workshops, symposiums, etc.
7.To promote the advancement of knowledge in operations and supply chain management by issuing bulletins, newsletters, journals and publications.

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