This program will also be helpful for Individuals with an entrepreneurial bent of mind aspiring to provide commercial commodity-warehousing services to the supply chain stakeholders. The knowledge of Warehouse Management, Warehousing Finance and HR Management will help them manage warehousing as a commercially attractive enterprise.

This program will be useful for professionals with at least one year of experience in the warehousing industry/vaults/cold storage/Logistics industry/ clearing corporations of the exchanges to obtain professional knowledge of warehouse management and to appropriately position themselves for their future career growth prospects and entrepreneurial aspirations, if any. It will help them hone their skills in risk management in commodity storage and enable them to set up cost-efficient compliance regimes leveraging the latest technological advances and their applicability to the field of scientific warehousing and storage compliance management.

Professionals working as managers in Farmer Producers Organizations also providing warehousing facilities will find the course to be helpful in connecting the warehoused commodities and hence their member stakeholders to the financial sector.

It will help the participants connect current warehousing service providers to become a part of the regulated warehousing industry with best practices related to all warehousing functions, creating commercial value besides winning the trust of all the stakeholders ranging from farmers and producers to the financiers of the stored commodities.

This program aims to train the participants with the best practices in the warehousing management industry besides making warehousing a commercial and an economically viable activity contributing to the overall development of the commodity value chain at the time when the country is aspiring itself to become a manufacturing hub and a part of the indo-pacific supply chain.

Eligibility – Passed Bachelor’s Degree of minimum 3 years’ duration. (Applicants in the last year of their bachelor’s degree program and awaiting their final results can apply) Candidates not meeting the above but having at least one year of experience in the warehousing industry/vaults/cold storage/Logistics industry/ clearing corporations of the exchanges can also apply.

The e Learning – Certificate Program in Commodity Warehousing Management [CPWM] consist of 54 sessions divided into three video modules. After each session, there would be three Multiple Choice Questions. On a successful attempt to get two of the three questions correct, the candidate would be allowed to go to the next session, and the same would be continued until the last lecture.

After completing the course modules, the candidates desirous of becoming a ‘Certified Commodity Warehousing Management Professional’ must appear for a remote proctored examination within 6 month from the date of registration of CPWM program. The examination will be multiple choice based, consisting of 100 questions and 2 hours duration. There will be no negative marking. The weightage of modules in the Final Examination will be as follows:

Module – 1 Warehousing Industry Ecosystem and Evolution – An Overview - 10%
Module – 2 Commodities, Markets, Warehousing and Assaying - 25%
Module – 3 Warehousing – Operations, Finance, Risk and Audit Controls - 35%
Module – 4 Legal & Institutional Significance in Warehousing (Human relations and ethics) - 20%
Module – 5 Modern Technological Interventions and Future of Warehousing, Industry - 10%

The Final Examination would be held 4 times a year in the months of March, June, September and December, the exact date and schedule of which would be communicated to the candidates via Email after they complete the registration for the exam.