CSCP
CSCP Complete Review Guide 2026–2027
Every exam topic in a 38-page Arabic PDF, ordered from the heaviest unit to the lightest. The first three chapters alone cover about 45% of the exam questions.
- 38Pages
- 129Key points
- 48Common mistakes
- 64Flashcards
Guide map
Each chapter is one exam unit, ordered by its weight in the real exam.
| Chapter | Unit | Weight | Exam questions | Key points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Supply Chains, Demand Management, and Forecasting | 15% | 23 | 17 |
| 2 | Sourcing Products and Services | 15% | 22 | 16 |
| 3 | Internal Operations and Inventory | 15% | 23 | 17 |
| 4 | Forward and Reverse Logistics | 15% | 22 | 16 |
| 5 | Global Supply Chain Networks | 10% | 15 | 16 |
| 6 | Supply Chain Relationships | 10% | 15 | 16 |
| 7 | Supply Chain Risk | 10% | 15 | 16 |
| 8 | Optimization, Sustainability, and Technology | 10% | 15 | 15 |
Chapter 1 in full: Supply Chains, Demand Management, and Forecasting
15% of the exam, about 23 questions. These are its key points, as in the guide.
- A supply chain is the network of organizations, resources, activities and information that moves a product from supplier to customer.
- Functional products (stable demand) fit efficient chains; innovative products (uncertain demand) fit responsive chains.
- Strategic fit means the chain's capabilities match what the target customers value (cost, speed, quality, flexibility).
The rest of chapter 1, on this page
- Bullwhip effect: small demand changes at retail grow into large swings upstream because of order batching, price fluctuations, rationing and long lead times.
- Reduce the bullwhip effect by sharing point-of-sale data, shortening lead times, stabilizing prices and using collaborative planning.
- Demand management has demand planning, demand sensing and demand shaping (promotion, pricing and channel decisions).
- Qualitative forecasting (expert opinion, Delphi, market research) fits new products; quantitative methods use history.
- Time-series methods: moving average, weighted moving average and exponential smoothing; a higher smoothing constant reacts faster but is noisier.
- Causal methods such as regression relate demand to drivers like price or advertising.
- Forecast error is actual minus forecast; MAD is the mean of absolute errors; MAPE is the mean absolute error as a percentage of actual.
- Bias is the average signed error; a tracking signal (cumulative error divided by MAD) outside about ±4 suggests the model needs review.
- Aggregate forecasts are more accurate than item-level forecasts, and shorter horizons are more accurate than longer ones.
- Sales and operations planning balances demand and supply monthly at an aggregate level and reconciles plans with finance and strategy.
- S&OP steps: data gathering, demand planning, supply planning, pre-S&OP reconciliation, executive meeting and decision.
- Aggregate planning strategies: chase (adjust capacity to demand), level (steady output with inventory) and hybrid.
- Customer requirements are translated into service levels, lead times and order-winning versus order-qualifying criteria.
- The SCOR model organizes processes as plan, source, make, deliver, return (and enable).
Common mistakes in this chapter
- A forecast is always wrong; the point is to quantify and manage error.
- Bias and MAD measure different things: direction versus size.
- S&OP is not an annual budgeting exercise.
- Efficiency and responsiveness trade off; one chain rarely maximizes both.
- Chase strategy does not mean carrying more inventory.
- Demand sensing uses short-term signals; demand planning is longer-range.
The other chapters are in the full guide
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7-day review plan
The chapters are spread over 6 days by weight so each day carries a similar load. Day 7 is a full exam.
Day 1 · 15% of the exam
Chapter 1: Supply Chains, Demand Management, and Forecasting
Day 2 · 15% of the exam
Chapter 2: Sourcing Products and Services
Day 3 · 15% of the exam
Chapter 3: Internal Operations and Inventory
Day 4 · 15% of the exam
Chapter 4: Forward and Reverse Logistics
Day 5 · 20% of the exam
Chapter 5: Global Supply Chain Networks
Chapter 7: Supply Chain RiskDay 6 · 20% of the exam
Chapter 6: Supply Chain Relationships
Chapter 8: Optimization, Sustainability, and TechnologyDay 7
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The first three key points of each chapter, as they appear in the guide (in Arabic in the PDF).
Chapter 1: Supply Chains, Demand Management, and Forecasting
- A supply chain is the network of organizations, resources, activities and information that moves…
- Functional products (stable demand) fit efficient chains; innovative products (uncertain demand) fit responsive chains.
- Strategic fit means the chain's capabilities match what the target customers value (cost, speed…
Chapter 2: Sourcing Products and Services
- Make when the item is core, confidential or uniquely capable; buy when suppliers are…
- Outsourcing reduces cost and capital but risks loss of control, quality and intellectual property.
- Kraljic matrix
Chapter 3: Internal Operations and Inventory
- The planning hierarchy runs from business plan to S&OP, master production schedule, material requirements…
- The MPS states what end items will be produced and when, within capacity and…
- MRP inputs
Chapter 4: Forward and Reverse Logistics
- Road is flexible and door-to-door; rail is cheap for heavy bulk over land; sea…
- Intermodal transport moves a container across several modes without handling the cargo itself.
- Truckload suits full loads; less-than-truckload consolidates smaller shipments at higher unit cost.
Chapter 5: Global Supply Chain Networks
- Network design decisions include the number, location, size and role of plants, warehouses and…
- Centralizing inventory lowers total stock through risk pooling but lengthens delivery distance.
- Location factors
Chapter 6: Supply Chain Relationships
- Customer relationship management collects customer data to segment, serve and retain profitable customers.
- Customer segmentation by profitability, needs and potential supports differentiated service levels.
- Customer service elements include pre-transaction, transaction and post-transaction activities.
Chapter 7: Supply Chain Risk
- Supply chain risk is the possibility of an event that disrupts flows of goods…
- Risk sources
- Identify risk with mapping, supplier tiers visibility, scenario analysis and incident history.
Chapter 8: Optimization, Sustainability, and Technology
- Good metrics are aligned with strategy, measurable, balanced and actionable; avoid measuring only local…
- Inventory turnover equals cost of goods sold divided by average inventory; days of supply…
- Cash-to-cash cycle time equals days of inventory plus days of receivables minus days of…
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Is it up to date for 2026–2027?
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Does the guide have questions?
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- Pages
- 38
- Edition
- 1448 AH · 2026–2027
- Language
- Arabic
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