(Parallel coaching given alongside the SCMLD programmes)

1. Certified Financial Planner

SCMLD -Board has signed an agreement with the Financial Planning Standards Board, India for SCMLD to be the educationprovider for their above certification. FPSB India operates the CFPCM Certification Programme which evaluates and certifies competency, ethics and practice standards of financial planning professionals within India. CFMCM qualified people can get preference in employment in Insurance Companies, Mutual Funds, Banks, Pension Fund Companies, Banks etc.

Financial Planning Standards Board India is marks licensing authority for the CFP marks in India, through an Affiliate Agreement with FPSB Denver, USA. The other peer countries are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, China Taipei, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States of America.

Currently in over 20 countries over 200 leading financial firms have joined hands towards the development and promotion of standards for Financial Planning professionals. In India Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) India has been set up to achieve the same. FPSB India is currently promoted by 49 leading Financial Services Organizations from the industry.

The modules to be covered are :

•Introduction to Financial Planning •Risk Analysis & Insurance Planning •Retirement Planning & Employee Benefits •Investment Planning •Tax & Estate Planning •Advanced Financial Planning. All students at SCMLD are expected to undergo this training at no extra cost. The coaching expenses are met from the Students Special Development Contribution Fund. But the examination and registration fees payable to FPSB, India has to be borne by individual students. Graduate of SCMLD can also enroll for this programme and get certified subject to his / her passing the CFP Certification.

2. Certified in Production & Inventory Management (CPIM)

For this certification one has to clear the following modules.
•Basics of Supply Chain Management •Master Planning of Resources•Detailed Scheduling & Planning •Execution & Control of Operations and •Strategic Management of Resources

This will add value to students of Manufacturing & Operations Management specialisation, who would like to take up employment with IT companies, consulting companies, large scale manufacturing companies, supply chain & logistics companies and so on. They must be engineering graduates.

CPIM programme is of APICS - The Association of Operations Management, Alexandria, Virginia, USA. Their associate, the Institute of Manufacturing Resource Management of India, located in Mumbai oversees the conduct of examinations in India.

3. Career Development Skills Programme

Stratecent Consulting runs the Career Development Programme (CDP), a comprehensive, performance-based leadership development programme, spread over a period of one year. On successful completion of the programme, the students are classified into various grades and certified by Stratecent Consulting & SCMLD. The CDP, with its rigorous and experiential learning methods, ensures that SCMLD students arriving at new jobs are fully prepared for the multi-cultural, multi-unit, objective, performance based culture prevalent in most contemporary companies. The CDP comprises of the following skills: Phase I has Negotiation Skills, Problem Solving, Systems Thinking, SPIN Selling (Large Account Sales). Phase II has Strategy, Team Building, Balanced Scorecard, Business Performance Measurement, Six Sigma, Lateral Thinking, CCV (Creating Client Values). Stratecent Consulting, in partnership with Imparta, runs the CCV programme. The Creating Client Value (CCV) Programme is a World Class Solution for the Consultative Sales Force of the 21st Century built by Imparta in conjunction with London Business School, INSEAD and Neil Rackham (SPIN Selling). Stratecent Consulting is the sole facilitator of these workshops in India. SCMLD has already procured licensed copies of the simulation tool for students to practice in areas of sales, marketing and strategy. No additional fee is required to be paid for this. These programmes have been run in some of the world's largest companies including 3M, ABB, Accenture, Boeing, Booze Allen Hamilton, BCG, BP, Citibank, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Exxon Mobil, Financial Times, Ford, Gartner, GE Worldwide, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Packard, IBM, INSEAD, JWT, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, London Business School, McKinsey, Merck, MetLife, O2, PwC, Prudential, Prudential Financial, Rabo Bank, Reuters, Siemens, Standard Chartered, UPS, Gartner etc.

4. First Aid, Resuscitation & Life Saving

This programme of 3 days duration conducted by Rashtriya Life Saving Society equips students with the skills of helping people in distress - victims of accident and other emergencies / disasters. It enhances confidence and the self worth of students to be of use to others. No additional fees required to be paid. All students and batches must undergo this training.

5. Systems Thinking

Using various tools including Stella software, the Systems Thinking programme - first of its kind in India in higher education - students undergo this 70 - 80 hrs instruction spread over the first three trimesters, to uncover the counter-intuitive world of systems. As a tool for collective inquiry and coordinated action, the purposes of Systems Thinking programme are to foster team learning and collaboration, tell compelling stories that describe how the system works, uncover the system structure behind problems, describe individuals’ on own mental models and those of others about why the system performs as it does, test possible strategies against intended results and for unintended consequences, identify higher-leverage interventions. As a result, Systems Thinking enables our students to understand how organizations and other complex systems really function, change their own thinking to match the way such systems operate, change their behaviour so that they are working with these complex forces instead of against them to create what they deeply desire, develop greater appreciation for the impact of their strategies on others in the system, be aware of the impacts of time delays and the need to balance short-term and long-term objectives and strategies, anticipate unintended consequences of well-intentioned strategies, appreciate the power of holistic approach to problem solving.Together with vipassana meditation, pranayama and other processes of the institute and rigorous inputs in systems thinking, SCMLD students will commit fewer mistakes when it comes to decision making in life, career, relationships and profession. This can help in developing breakthrough vision for problem solving and proactive initiatives. This course is based on the principles of 'Learning Organisation' as propounded by Peter Senge of MIT, USA, who is trying to revolutionise the educational process in many schools in the USA. Along with the educational qualifications, it is important to develop the abilities to articulate, formulate the problems with all the interconnected & interdependent truths and solve them creatively. This training widens the holistic perspective of the students. This is provided to all students.

6. Business Dynamics

Those who qualify in System Thinking will proceed to Business Dynamics (as taught at MIT, USA). Coaching for any of the above certifications will not attract any additional fee but registration and examination fees to the examining bodies must be borne by the students. If one has to do these programmes from outside it will cost a huge amount of money and time.