Updated on 22 September 2026. What’s new: CPIM is now a single exam, so the old Part 1 and Part 2 split is replaced by the current version 9.0 exam.
You pull your CPIM Part 1 study guide off the shelf, open it at the inventory chapter you half finished, and go to book the exam. There is no Part 1 to book. ASCM, the association formerly called APICS, ran its last Part 1 and Part 2 sittings on 1 February 2024, and since 1 June 2026 the only exam is CPIM 9.0: one paper that covers the whole program. Much of what you learned still counts. The plan around it has to change.

This article is for candidates who studied, or started studying, under the old two-part model. It explains what happened to Part 1 and Part 2, whether a Part 1 pass still counts, which Part 1 topics carry straight into CPIM 9.0 and which areas are new, whether your old books are still safe to use, how to rebuild a study plan without starting from zero, and how to handle one long exam instead of two shorter ones. Everything here was checked against ASCM's own candidate documents in September 2026.
What happened to CPIM Part 1 and Part 2?
For several years the APICS CPIM credential was earned in two steps. Part 1 covered the foundations of supply chain planning, and Part 2 went deeper into the techniques a planner uses every day. Under version 7.0 you needed both passes to hold the certification. That model ended with version 8.0, and version 9.0 has now replaced 8.0 in turn.