ITC Infotech Partners with Manipal Global Education Services to Launch Certification Programs

ITC Infotech, a global scale full service provider of technology solutions and a fully-owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd,  announced a partnership with Manipal Global Education Services to offer advanced certification programs in supply chain management and lean six sigma, a program that combines the best methods available today for simultaneously improving quality, speed, productivity and cost. This initiative will be in line with ITC Infotech’s vision of creating a “Digital Academy”, pioneered internally as an educational initiative for the external market.

This joint initiative between ITC Infotech and Manipal ProLearn, a division of Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE), focusing on digital learning, will be in the form of online programs aimed to train learners through an experiential model. This would incorporate several strategies including teaching through demonstrations on tools, videos featuring an industry expert and extensive audio based e-learning material. These certification courses will give participants a detailed knowledge of contemporary issues of supply chain management. The courses will be also available for ITC Infotech employees. This collaborative effort will allow both the companies to work on the contemporary topics of Digital Supply Chain, while at the same time vertically enhancing the supply chain course to the next level.

Commenting on the partnership, Sushma Rajagopalan, CEO & MD, ITC Infotech, said “At ITC Infotech, “Supply Chain Excellence” is a key engagement theme with our clients. ITC Infotech with its lineage of the ITC group has deep strengths in supply chain management across diverse industry segments like FMCG, Agri-industry and Retail. We believe our industry cum practical experience would immensely benefit the students enrolling for these digital learning programs. We are happy to partner with Manipal Global Education Services in our endeavor to nurture talent in the supply chain and in the area of operations excellence.”

Commenting on this collaboration, Gopal Devanahalli, Senior Vice president, Manipal Global Education Services, said: “ProLearn works towards preparing professionals for a Digital World and we are proud to have partnered with ITC Infotech to train aspirants in supply chain management. These programs will significantly develop analytical and decision-making abilities by analyzing real-life case studies and online learning.”

Through this partnership, ITC Infotech and Manipal ProLearn aim to serve the emerging needs of the IT industry. This program will be open to any aspirant who wants to build a career in operations and quality management. Besides students, this course by will also look at training industry corporates through deep domain and supply chain expertise facilitated by MGES.