Certified in Integrated Resource Management

CIRM is a comprehensive educational program designed to help you understand the power of collaboration among organizational resources such as product development, marketing/sales, human resources, finance, and operations. The CIRM program enables you to effectively interact with cross-functional departments for more strategic decision making, enhanced collaboration, and improved productivity.

Benefits of CIRM
A CIRM education can help you to

Gain a greater understanding of the strategy and role of the value-driven enterprise

Collaborate with internal and external suppliers for enhanced profitability

Initiate and manage change within the organization

Understand the integrated planning of supply chain resources and business processes required to deliver products and services to customers

Translate customer demand into requirements for value-added products and services

Convert a need into a product or service that meets the expectations of customers

Apply strategic decision-making skills to solve enterprisewide issues

Who should earn the CIRM designation?
Any professional who would benefit from a complete understanding of the interrelationships between major business function in an enterprise is an ideal candidate for CIRM education

CIRM Modules
Candidates must pass all exams for the following modules

Enterprise Concepts and Fundamentals
Enterprise Concepts and Fundamentals introduces the strategic fundamentals of the value-driven enterprise, the management concepts of organizational design and structure, and the basic business processes that will be covered in the CIRM curriculum. Topics include

Strategic Fundamentals
Management Concepts
Business Processes
Support Functions.

Designing Products and Processes
This module examines the systems, approaches, and strategies used by an enterprise to convert a need or innovation into a product, process, or service that meets the expectations of both the enterprise and the customer. Examine the activities in the design process, which include organizing and defining the design team, determining the resources needed, identifying the work to be done and the anticipated output from the work, doing the actual work, and measuring the results. Topics include

Comprehension and Translation of Requirements
Work Structure (Planning and Implementing a Design Project)
Performance Assessment of the Design Process
Continuous Improvement and Innovations.

Delivering Products and Services
The Delivering Products and Services module expands on the concept of the value-driven enterprise, which was introduced in the Enterprise Concepts and Fundamentals module. Learn how to integrate an enterprise's systems, approaches, and strategies to make the transition from concept to product and from customer expectation to product delivery. Understand the integrated planning and control of supply chain resources and business processes—including producers, distributors, and customers—that are required to deliver products and services to customers. Topics include

Identification of the Delivery Strategy
Execution and Assessment
Continuous Improvement and Innovation.

Identifying and Creating Demand
Identifying and Creating Demand presents the strategies and tactics that identify, define, and quantify customer wants and needs. It also demonstrates how to translate requirements into value-added products and services. Topics include

Marketing Input to the Business Plan
Sales
Customer Ordering and Service
Performance Measurement.

Integrated Enterprise Management
Follow the relationships and interactions of functional groups working toward a common goal. This final module acts as a capstone of the whole CIRM educational program. Uniting all the areas covered in the other four modules, Integrated Enterprise Management applies strategic thinking to enterprise-wide issues, such as the integration of individuals within teams, functions, and the enterprise, and the evolution of an enterprise within its environment and over time. Topics include

Personal Skills and Teamwork Necessary for the Individual to Succeed in an Integrated Enterprise
Making Change Happen
Functions and Their Integration within the Enterprise
The Enterprise in the Environment
The Enterprise Through Time.