Workshop on APICS Certification

Guest Lecture by: Mr. Pradeep Khetan (CPIM, APICS certified)

On 30th September we had arranged a guest lecture by Mr. Pradeep Khetan, head of APICS Indian Chapter. He discussed and clarified the concepts of SCM and Operation Management.
Objective of the workshop was to discuss -

• What is APICS?
• What is Operations Management?
• CPIM Certification
• What is SCM?
• CSCP Certification
• CPIM/CSCP must for ERP/SCM/Operations Management career
• APICS-Consulting/Manufacturing firmsFuture of Operations Management/SCM

Mr. Khetan gave a holistic view about how APICS Certification helps an Individual to grow in the organization. He emphasized more on IT/Service industries. Further, he talked about the organizations that are in SCM consultancy and implementation. Some of the big players are Atos Origin, Accenture, Bristlecone India Ltd, Cognizant, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Consulting India Pvt Ltd, Genpact, Datamatics Ltd, IBM Global, Infosys Technologies, I2 technology, L&TITL, Oracle India Pvt Ltd, PCS, QAD, SAP, Satyam, SSA Global Ltd.

Mr. Khetan is very much eager to help us in arranging guest lectures from various industries. Following are some of renowned personalities in the IT industry who are APICS certified:

• Mr Vivek Marla, CPIM, Senior Director, Oracle India Pvt Ltd
• Ms Mythily Ramesh, CPIM, VP & Business Head, Wipro Ltd
• Mr Satish Kumar Das, CPIM, Chief Security Officer, CTS (I) Ltd
• Mr K L Bhaskaran, CPIM, CSCP, General Manager-Logistics- TCS
• Ms Shalini Sinha, CPIM, Asst VP, Genpact
• Mr Sriram K Moorthy, CPIM, VP, Supply Chain Services, Genpact
• Mr Sameer Khetarpal, CPIM, Asst VP-Operations, Genpact
• Mr Prasad Akerkar, CPIM, CSCP, Practice Head - SAP Logistics, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd
• Mr Vijay P. Motwani, CPIM, Country Manager, SAP Indonesia
• Mr Chandrasekhar Kaza, CPIM, CSCP, Senior Manager-Capgemini Consulting

There are five Exams one has to give to get APICS CPIM certified. The five exams are –

• Basics of Supply Chain Management
• Master Planning of Resources
• Detailed Scheduling and Planning
• Execution and Control of OperationsStrategic Management of Resources

2006 Exam Dates for CPIM are:

Exam date Form filling deadline

• March 11, 2006 January 15/ January 22, 2006
• June 17, 2006 April 22 / April 29, 2006
• September 23, 2006 July 29 / August 05, 2006
• December 02, 2006 October 07 / October 14, 2006

He also discussed about Certified Supply Chain Professional exam. A CSCP certified professional is supposed to have in depth knowledge in four domains:

• Supply Chain Management Fundamentals
• Building Competitive Operations Planning and Logistics
• Managing Customer and Supplier Relationships
• Using Information Technology to Enable Supply Chain Management

It was a very informative session and helped the participants of PGDSM MIT to get initiated about SCM. Also, helped us understand how SCM facilitates the processes in organizations.

Cheers,
Amit Kumar