Certification Maintenance
To keep your APICS certification valid, you must earn and submit 75 professional development maintenance points every five years (100 points for APICS Fellows).
Maintenance can be fulfilled with many of the educational activities you’re already doing to expand your supply chain knowledge and stay up to date on the latest supply chain trends. To learn more about the rules and policies relevant to maintaining your APICS certification, please read the APICS Certification Maintenance Handbook. For more information about how to complete the maintenance application once you are ready to submit your maintenance, review the Maintenance Application Tutorial.
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You must track your maintenance activities and point accumulation until you have earned enough points to submit your maintenance for each APICS certification that you hold. Submitting your maintenance application is easy. You can access the maintenance application as early as 30 days after the start of your maintenance cycle. However, you may need to provide supporting documentation if your application is randomly selected for audit. To help us uphold the highest standards of quality and excellence, we perform random audits of certification maintenance applications. Our Maintenance Audit Guidelines will help you understand audit documentation requirements.
You must accumulate the total number of points needed to maintain your certification before submitting the maintenance application.
To submit your maintenance application:
- Log in to My Account.
- Find the designation you need to maintain.
- Access the online maintenance application.
- Record the number of points you have earned in each category.
- Pay the fee and submit your application.
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