Is it necessary to have an APICS certification?

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While not necessary, it can be beneficial. You can use that a leveraging tool when negotiating for your salary, plus it may put you ahead of someone with similar experience/background.

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It's not but it will make you more competitive

prefacing this with everything I'm saying is my opinion and I don't have a cert. I think the only benefit would be to help open a few doors for you if you do not have enough experience or have trouble articulating worthy achievements. experience trumps the certs any day and there's much better things you can do for better ROI. the problem is finding those things can be arbitrary depending on your experience, passions, and what is currently available to you while getting a cert is very straight forward

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