University, Rotterdam School of Management, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Vienna University of Economics and Business and Copenhagen Business School. Organizations A number of organizations provide certification in supply chain management, such as the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), IIPMR (International Institute for Procurement and Market Research), APICS (the Association for Operations Management), ISCEA (International Supply Chain Education Alliance) and IoSCM (Institute of Supply Chain Management). APICS' certification is called Certified Supply Chain Professional, or CSCP, and ISCEA's certification is called the Certified Supply Chain Manager (CSCM), CISCM (Chartered Institute of Supply Chain Management) awards certificate as Chartered Supply Chain Management Professional (CSCMP). Another, the Institute for Supply Management, is developing one called the Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) focused on the procurement and sourcing areas of supply-chain management. The Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA) is the main certifying body for Canada with the designations having global reciprocity. The designation Supply Chain Management Professional (SCMP) is the title of the supply chain leadership designation. Topics addressed by selected professional supply chain certification programmes The following table compares topics addressed by selected professional supply chain certification programmes. See also Barcode scanner Beer distribution game Bullwhip effect Calculating demand forecast accuracy Cold chain Cost to serve Customer-driven supply chain Customer-relationship management Demand-chain management Distribution Document automation Ecodesk Enterprise planning systems Enterprise resource planning Fair Stone standard Industrial engineering Information technology management Integrated business planning Inventory Inventory control Inventory control system Inventory management software LARG SCM Liquid logistics Logistic engineering Logistics Logistics management Logistics Officer Management accounting in supply chains Management information system Master of Science in Supply Chain Management Military supply-chain management Netchain analysis Offshoring Research Network Operations management Order fulfillment Platform envelopment Port centric logistics Procurement Procurement outsourcing Product quality risk in supply chain Radio-frequency identification Reverse logistics Service management Software configuration management (SCM) Stock management Strategic information system Supply chain engineering Supply-chain-management software Supply-chain network Supply-chain security Supply chain Supply management Trade finance Value chain Vendor-managed inventory Warehouse Warehouse management system Associations INFORMS Institute of Industrial Engineers References Further reading Ferenc Szidarovszky and Sándor Molnár (2002) Introduction to Matrix Theory: With Applications to Business and Economics, World Scientific Publishing. Description and preview. FAO, 2007, Agro-industrial supply chain management: Concepts and applications. AGSF Occasional Paper 17 Rome. Haag, S., Cummings, M., McCubbrey, D., Pinsonneault, A., & Donovan, R. (2006), Management Information Systems For the