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Rethinking Certification Culture in Procurement and Supply Chain: Why Capability Must Replace Credentialism in the Age of AI

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  • Khodroj, Alaa

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Certification bodies have long shaped the professional landscape of procurement and supply chain, offering standardized knowledge and global recognition. Yet the increasing reliance on theoretical exams, recurring fees, and credential centric hiring has created structural challenges that limit inclusivity, undervalue experience, and fail to reflect the realities of modern practice. This paper examines the limitations of certification driven evaluation, the social and economic pressures it creates, and the widening gap between certification standards and real world capability — especially as artificial intelligence now performs many tasks traditionally tested in certification exams. Rather than dismissing certification bodies, the paper proposes a shift toward capability based, evidence driven, AI enhanced validation that honors practical judgment, ethical decision making, and lived professional experience. The goal is reform, not rejection: a modernized model where certification bodies evolve from exam providers into capability verification authorities.

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  • Khodroj, Alaa, 2026. "Rethinking Certification Culture in Procurement and Supply Chain: Why Capability Must Replace Credentialism in the Age of AI," SocArXiv kguqj_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:kguqj_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/kguqj_v1
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