Basdeo Ganpat

Basdeo Ganpat is a Tutor attached to the Open Campus, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. He is also an Inventory Management Consultant with the Public Service Academy, Ministry of Public Administration, Port of Spain. Basdeo specializes in the areas of Public Service Stores Management, Warehousing, Purchasing, Inventory Control, and Transport & Distribution. Over the past 15 years, he has trained a number of individuals in both the Public Service and the Private Sector.

He previously held senior management positions at National Flour Mills, Courts, Singer, Agostini’s, Advance Foam, Western Scientific and the Treasury Department, Ministry of Finance. He also performed management consultancy assignments at Caribbean Chemicals, Peake’s, and KC Confectionery.

Publishing credits include various articles in NFM Mill Net, Editor of AGOSTINI’S Insight, and Editor of KC Confectionery’s Sweet Moments. He is also the Author of a book titled Stores Management in the Public Service 2nd ed., published in 2012, Author of a book titled Warehousing: A Practical Approach 2nd ed., published in 2012 and Author of a book titled Purchasing: A Practical Approach published in 2010.

Basdeo holds management certificates from the University of the West Indies, T&T, the Institute of Logistics & Transport, UK, the Institute of Commercial Management, UK, the American Society of Transport & Logistics, USA, the American Business Management Association, USA, and the International Association of Safety Professionals, USA.

He also has a sound knowledge of various Accounting Software Applications including Platinum, Batchmaster, Syspro, Traverse, Accpac, Atrex, AS400, Fact2000, Peachtree, DacEasy, Crystal Reports and Microsoft Suite – Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, and Publisher.

Basdeo is a Member of the Institute of Logistics & Transport (MILT), a Member of the American Society of Transport & Logistics (MASTL), a Member of the International Association of Safety Professionals (MIASP), and a European Junior Logistician (EJLog.)