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BASICS OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT APICS CPIM Certification Course Study Guide Institute of Manufacturing Resource Management of India Copyright © by IMRMI All rights reserved by IMRMI. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part. Foreword First, let me thank Mr. Anakala Vijay Bhaskar Reddy, CPIM, and Mr. Pradeep V. Khetan, CPIM for giving me the opportunity to write this foreword. I feel honoured and flattered. It is my mission, vision and dream to see my country, India, attain back the leadership position in the world. I am quite confident that we as a nation will do it. Towards achieving this mission, I found APICS body of knowledge quite powerful. I decided to bring this body of knowledge to India, when I took my APICS certification exams in 1985 in the US. The APICS certification programme started in India in 1992. The beginning was tough. Mr. Anand Mahindra may not remember, but I am still grateful to him for sponsoring senior managers of Mahindra Mahindra and Mahindra Ugine in this programme, as the first few APICS certificati on candidates. Then came the support of BaaN Company. Mr. S. Ramanathan, then heading BaaN, was (and is) our well-wisher. We received a lot of support from Arthur Anderson (Accenture now). I have not forgotten the support I received from Mr. J. A. Choudhary, who was the chairman of STPI, Hyderabad at that time. I know that I am forgetting many names but the whole success is attributed to lots and lots of people who provided their selfless support to this programme and to me. I am also thankful to each and everyone at APICS head quarters in U