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San Fernando Valley APICS
PO Box 802977
Valencia, CA 91380-2977

Professional Development Meeting

"Sorting Out the Complexity of Manufacturing” by Karen Vecchio, CFPIM, CSCP

Date: Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Odyssey Restaurant, Granada Hills (map)

Feeling overwhelmed? Too many choices as you design your manufacturing strategy? Karen Vecchio can help.

Karen’s presentation at the May PDM dinner meeting will map four competitive strategies—Cost, Speed to Market, Service and Technological Innovation—against choices you have to make in Sales and Order Entry, Planning and the Shop Floor. She will also shine light onto your choice of Fulfillment Strategy—Make-to-Stock, Assemble-to-Order, Make-to-Order or Engineer-to-Order.

Karen’s work experience has including being a Design Engineer, Production Control Manager and Director of Materials, as well as an educator and consultant. She has been on the front lines cutting lead times from 4 weeks to 3 days, doubling inventory turns during business growth of 30% and attaining inventory accuracy of 99.9%. She has implemented three ERPs and dozens of supply chain improvement projects. Karen was among the first group of 508 to attain the APICS designation of Certified Supply Chain Professional.

Click here to learn more and register.

Coming in June:

“Grab Life…: Grab control of your career and your life and never let go” by Doug Howardell, CPIM, PMP

Who are you and what do you want? Do you want to be in control of your life or are you content with having someone else in control?

Our esteemed presenter, Doug Howardell, will amuse and entertain you while you learn how to take charge of your own life. Doug will explain the secret formula for grabbing life by the balls. You will get a chance to take a test to determine how much control you really do have over your own life – and what to do about it!

Come join us for an entertaining and educational evening! We promise you won’t be bored!

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West Coast Student Case Competition Winners announced!

40 students from 7 different schools competed as 9 teams in the 2nd Annual Student Case Competition hosted by the Southwest District of APICS during the April 11-12, 2008 district meeting in Buena Park, CA. The first and second place winners were a team from UNLV and a team combined from Cal State East Bay and Cal State-Chico, respectively. The winning students will travel in September to the APICS International Conference and Expo where they will again compete against the winning teams from the Midwest and East Coast case competitions. Our own local school, CSUN, sent 2 teams to the local competition. Although, they didn’t win, they and all the students did very well under tremendous pressure – they had about 15 hours to work on the Case study. They had to write a 3 page paper and create a 6-minute PowerPoint presentation. Then they presented their solutions orally to the chapter leaders of the Southwest district APICS chapters. Other schools represented were Arizona State, Boise State, another team from UNLV, and 2 teams from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, the school whose team won the International Case Competition in 2007. The 2007 winners were present to assist district staff with this competition. Congratulations to all the students who competed! You are a credit to your schools and will make wonderful Operations Management professionals!

APICS Announces New Membership Dues

The APICS Board of Directors approved a new membership dues structure beginning April 1, 2008.

Join or Renew By March 31 at Current Rate
APICS is pleased to offer an opportunity to join APICS or renew at the current dues for up to five years, by March 31, 2008. Obtain valuable membership benefits at the current rate.

President's Letter

A Call for Volunteers to the SFV APICS Chapter Board of Directors

Dear Members and Friends,

The programs and activities presented by SFV APICS chapter are accomplished by the many efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers that make up the Board of Directors.

There is now a need for new Board volunteers in many areas of our chapter operations and management, especially Chapter Marketing, Publicity and Administrative Services. No prior experience is necessary.

The benefits to you are:

1. Increasing your professional network through various Chapter and Regional Activities that can make your future job searches easier.
   
   
2. Personal & professional growth; making you more valuable to present and future employers.
   
   
3. Three points per year of service for CPIM Certification Maintenance.

The time commitment is one meeting per month (usually the first Thursday of the month), and we provide you with a free dinner.

In my 10 years of being a member and active volunteer for this Chapter, it has been a huge benefit to me both personally and professionally.

If you are interested, please contact me at nick@nickmatonak.com

Sincerely
Nick Matonak, CPIM, CIRM, CSCP
President, San Fernando Valley APICS

New APICS Industry Certification

On March 8, 2005, APICS announced the creation of a new industry certification to address the rapidly changing educational needs in supply chain management. The Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) designation will be designed for professionals interested in increasing their knowledge of supply chain management, those currently working in the field of supply chain management, and those working with enterprise resource planning systems.

The CSCP learning system will consist of a blended learning approach incorporating self-directed study courses, Web-based learning, and classroom-based education offered through the APICS network of local chapters throughout North America and International Associates, colleges and universities, and corporations.

The CSCP program will be launched in conjunction with the 2005 APICS International Conference and Exposition, October 16-18, in New Orleans.

Go to the Volunteer Resources page of the APICS Web site to download FAQs on the program. APICS will continue to provide you with updates on the CSCP program's developments through this newsletter and in other communications.