By Dr. Olaniyi Opanuga, FNIPM, FCIAM, FIMC, CMM, COM, CSCOM, PSCOMP

 

Manufacturing environment is highly competitive in most parts of the world with ever increasing political, economic, technological, cultural, social and market challenges.

Business organization need to jostle for survival, profitability and growth by dealing with constraints and pushing back limitations. But competency standards are required to lift an organization to desired heights and maximize shareholder value.

NIPM certification, training and examinations are aimed to separating the low and average performer from the high performers by building and testing competencies that are critical to effective job/role performance.

 

Driving down costs and reducing waste through lean, ensuring high standards of quality, optimizing supply chains, improving capacity utilization, shortening time to market and production cycle, promoting reliability, safety and environmental sustainability, maximizing operational efficiency for competitive advantage and more are areas top management is expecting manufacturing and operations managers to weave KPI.

NIPM certifications for Production Manufacturing and Operations Managers such as the CPMP, CPM, CIPM, CMPMP, CMM, COMP and COM are based on world class competency model which organizations need to build an innovative and transformational organization of the future.

 

 

Dr. Olaniyi Opanuga, FNIPM, FCIAM, FIMC, CMM, COM, CSCOM, PSCOMP 

is the President and Chairman, Nigerian Institute of Production Management – NIPM.