{"id":3236,"date":"2013-03-15T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2013\/03\/15\/ism-closes-the-casket-on-yet-another-certification\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T06:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T10:29:21","slug":"ism-closes-the-casket-on-yet-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/ism-closes-the-casket-on-yet-another\/","title":{"rendered":"ISM Closes The Casket On Yet ANOTHER Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>On February 28, 2007, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) ruffled some feathers by laying to rest its Accredited Purchasing Practitioner (A.P.P.) certification, calling it \u201cfinancially infeasible.\u201d\u00a0 Then, the once-venerable institution continued its self-immolation by burying the Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) certification, which had its final day of testing set for December 31, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>After experiencing a backlash from procurement professionals, reflected in their 32% revenue decline in two years as reported in 2010, you\u2019d think they\u2019d learn how to run a certification program.\u00a0 Apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week, ISM quietly announced that it was lowering the standards for earning its Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) designation and, as a result, closing the casket on its Certified in Supply Management (CSM) certification.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure this will tick a few different constituencies off.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, first of all, ISM led its members to believe that its CPSM would require higher standards and thus be more \u201cprofessional\u201d than its other offerings.\u00a0 So, the CPSM\u2019s who spent thousands of dollars and countless months earning their designations are now lumped in with the very people from whom they wished to separate themselves.<\/p>\n<p>And, second of all, those who bought into the value proposition of the CSM now have to deal with another change by an institution that has axed three certifications in a hair over six years.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 What\u2019s next?\u00a0 The CPSM?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in earning a procurement certification but are tired of ISM\u2019s carnage and ridiculousness or scared that the rug may be pulled out from under you, I invite you to consider NLPA\u2019s Senior Professional in Supply Management<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (SPSM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>) family of certifications.\u00a0 Unlike ISM, the NLPA has never discontinued a certification.\u00a0 Instead, the NLPA grows its certification curriculum as the procurement profession grows.<\/p>\n<p>In 2004, the NLPA introduced the SPSM Certification.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, the NLPA introduced the SPSM2<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Certification.\u00a0 The SPSM2 is not a replacement for the SPSM, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">it is a higher-level certification<\/span>.\u00a0 So, if you earn the SPSM and want to gain more education and earn an even more prestigious certification, then you pursue the SPSM2.\u00a0 It\u2019s like earning a bachelor\u2019s degree first, then earning a master\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, the NLPA introduced the SPSM3<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Certification.\u00a0 The SPSM3 is an even higher level certification.\u00a0 So, you earn the SPSM first, then the SPSM2, and then, if you really want to be among the elite and most qualified procurement professionals, you earn the SPSM3.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, the NLPA has a clearly strategized qualification path for procurement professionals and does not kill its own creations.\u00a0 That\u2019s a big reason why the SPSM Certification has now been earned in 85 countries around the world and the NLPA continues to grow year after year after year.<\/p>\n<p>The other guys?\u00a0 They apparently like the sound of church bells tolling a now familiar death knell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 28, 2007, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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