ABOUT SCPMI
By Professionals,For Professionals.
The Supply Chain and Procurement Management Institute is a global professional institute for procurement and supply chain: practitioners, specialists, leaders, educators, researchers, students and the organizations they work for.
A community first. A certification body second.
WHY WE EXIST
A profession this important should not be learning everything twice.
Almost everything the world depends on passes through the decisions this profession makes. The medicine that reaches a clinic. The food on a shelf. The part that keeps an aircraft flying.
The work is most visible when it fails. When it succeeds, it can look as though nothing happened at all.
Yet the profession has never had one place where what one practitioner learns becomes available to the rest. SCPMI exists to build it.
VISION
To build the world's largest, most trusted and most influential supply chain and procurement community.
MISSION
To unite, develop and inspire professionals through industry-specific capability development, collaborative communities, knowledge creation, organizational excellence and a digital-first professional experience.
What we do.
Build communities
Organized by the sector you work in and the discipline you practice, open to every member at no cost.
Certify professionals
Assessed certifications built from what the profession requires, designed in alignment with the international standard for certifying people.
Assess organizations
Independent assessment of a procurement or supply chain function against a published standard written for its sector.
Create knowledge
Research, insight and practical experience contributed by the people who do the work.
WHAT DEFINES US
What defines us.
01.
Professional-led
Built and governed by practitioners, not for them.
02.
Community-centered
A community first, a certification body second.
03.
Industry-specific
Every sector on its own terms, with its own regulations, suppliers and risks.
04.
Capability-focused
Evidence of what someone can do, not what they attended.
05.
Digital-first
No campus, no regional offices, no requirement to travel.
06.
Multilingual
Released progressively, so that language is never what holds a professional back.
07.
Globally accessible
Free to join, from anywhere, at any stage of a career.
GOVERNANCE
Independent by design.
Three bodies, each independent of the others. No individual serves on more than one at the same time.
Advisory Council
Senior professionals who hold the Institute to its mission and its Charter. They serve in a personal capacity, hold no governance authority, and receive no compensation.
Meet the Advisory CouncilCertification and Standards Committee
Owns the framework behind every credential, approves each scheme, and sets the standard a candidate must meet.
Recognition Board
Decides organizational recognition and approves every award, independently of the people who carry out the assessment.
THE CHARTER
We publishedthe whole thing.
What we are, how we are governed, what our credentials mean, and the standards we hold ourselves to.
Very few professional bodies publish their constitution. We think a body that asks to be trusted should be readable.
WHERE WE ARE
Registered in Massachusetts.Built for everywhere.
SCPMI is registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and operates digitally. There are no regional offices and no campus, which is how a professional in any market reaches the same programs on the same terms.
Free to Join. Yours to Shape.
Membership costs nothing. The opportunity to contribute is open to every professional who wants it.
