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Professional Development Meeting

February 2017 Professional Development Meeting

Successfully Managing Supply Chain Variability and Volatility presented by renowned author and former APICS Executive: Carol Ptak

 Monday, February 13, 2017, 5:00pm, DoubleTree Park Place, St. Louis Park,MN

In today’s volatile and complex operations and supply chain scenarios, conventional planning, materials management and unit cost centric rules and metrics impede product and cash flow and ultimately compromise ROI performance. Forecast error and outmoded MRP rules and tools have become major sources of variation in supply chains fueling the “Bullwhip Effect” and eroding performance. Finance and Operations teams that overcome these obstacles and become Demand Driven can create a huge competitive advantage for their company.  Today’s detailed planning and scheduling systems are rooted in assumptions and practices from 40 years ago.  “Best practices” are no longer best – they are simply antiquated and in many cases inappropriate.  Optimizing these inappropriate rules through today’s more powerful ERP products is fraught with risk.  Sustaining competitiveness in the face of rising complexity and volatility in supply chains requires a fundamentally different approach.  This presentation will describe the three steps of the required shift from convention to the emerging principles of Demand Driven operational systems.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to mitigate variability, uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity in your supply chain
• The three step process necessary for sustainable success
• The five steps to become demand driven

*Note: Please note that Carol will also be instructing the "Certified Demand Driven Planner"  Workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 14th and 15th at Hamline's Minneaplis Campus. Advanced registration is required. See more details about this opportunity here.

About the Speaker:
Carol Ptak is currently a partner with the Demand Driven Institute (www.demanddriveninstitute.com) and was most recently at Pacific Lutheran University as Visiting Professor and Distinguished Executive in Residence. Previously, she was vice president and global industry executive for manufacturing and distribution industries at PeopleSoft where she developed the concept of demand driven manufacturing (DDM). Ms. Ptak spent four years at IBM Corporation culminating in the position of global SMB segment executive.

She holds an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology and completed the EMPO program at Stanford University. Ms. Ptak is a frequent educator at the university level and presents at many key technical conferences around the world including South Africa, France, Israel, Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands and eleven APICS International conferences. She is the author of numerous articles and the books Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E with Chad Smith, MRP and Beyond and ERP, Tools, Techniques and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, Theory H.O.W. with Harold Cavallaro, Necessary but not Sufficient with Dr. Eli Goldratt and Eli Schragenheim. Together with Dean Gilliam she updated Quantum Leap, originally written by John Constanza. Ms. Ptak has lent her name to the internationally coveted Ptak Prize for Supply Chain Excellence that is awarded annually by ISCEA (International Supply Chain Education Alliance.)

Ms. Ptak is certified through APICS at the fellow level (CFPIM) and was certified in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM) with the first group internationally. Ms. Ptak was the President and CEO of APICS, The Educational Society for Resource Management for the year 2000. Prior to her election as APICS President, she served on the Society in a variety of positions.

Carol is the author of several books:

• Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3rd Edition (with Chad Smith)
• ERP: Tools, Techniques and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain
• The Quantum Leap: Next Generation (with Dean Gillam & Steve Taylor?Jones)
• Theory H.O.W.: How Organizations Could Work (with Harold E. Cavallaro)
• Necessary but not Sufficient: A Theory of Constraints Business Novel (with Eliyahu M. Goldratt)
• MRP and Beyond: A Toolbox for Integrating People and Systems
• DDMRP

Location: DoubleTree Park Place 1500 Park Place Blvd. St. Louis Park MN 55416

Date: Monday, February 13, 2017

Agenda:
5:00 PM     Registration and Networking
5:45 PM     Dinner & Annoucements
6:30 PM     Presentation
7:30 PM     Q&A
8:00 PM     Adjourn

 Earn 1 Certification Maintenance Point for attendance at this event!

Members: $35.00, Non-Members: $45.00, Full-time Students: $15.00

Registration Deadline: 5:00pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2017, or until Sold Out! (Registrations after 5:00pm on Wednesday, February 8th, will be accepted on a "space available" basis.  Please call the Chapter Office at 763/413-2513 to register after the posted deadline.) 

ADVANCED REGISTRATION & PAYMENT IS REQUIRED.  

REGISTER NOW!

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Member News

Coming in 2017!
BE AMONG THE FIRST TO ACHIEVE CLTD CERTIFICATION!

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new certification program - CLTD (Certified in Logistics and Transportation) in 2017! 

This new credential is designed to provide Directors, Managers and support staff a body of knowledge, best practices and standards for the logistics, transportation and distribution industries.

The Class Schedule is now published! Check it out on our website!

Certified Demand Driven Planner Program New Opportunity for APICS Members/Colleagues

APICS Twin Cities Chapter is pleased to partner with the Demand Driven Institute (DDI) to offer a new opportunity to enhance your skills as an Operations and Supply Chain Professional!

Click here to learn more!

Trying to determine which APICS Certification is right for you?

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Now Available - 15th ed APICS Dictionary!

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Supply Chain is where it's at

Check out these current articles that we found quite interesting and relevant:

The Battle for Supply Chain Talent - Supply Chain Digest

The Lean Thinker - check out Mark Rosenthal's (Spring Seminar Speaker) blog!

supply chain 24/7

Thinking Supply Chain - check out the APICS Blog - Insights, analysis and ideas to advance your supply chain. Join the conversation.

Feel free to share your interesting reading on our LInkedIn page.

Your Chapter is Platinum!

Chapter Management Excellence is an integral component to enhancing the member experience. Successful APICS chapters provide their members with opportunities for stellar education, career development, and networking.

The APICS Chapter Benchmarking and Reporting (CBAR) program recognizes chapters that have exceeded minimum standards and exemplify excellence in overall chapter management. We are proud to announce the APICS Twin Cities Chapter received the 2016 CBAR Platinum Award designation, an admirable accomplishment for an APICS chapter.

As a member of an APICS Platinum Award Winning Chapter, the CBAR designation signifies your chapter’s commitment to providing an exceptional membership experience. APICS Twin Cities Chapter has been recognized with this achievement for the past 22 consecutive years!

Calling All Full-Time Students!

APICS Student Membership is FREE!

NEW APICS Education Selector

New videos of 2015 APICS Corporate Award of Excellence winners Carlisle Interconnect Technologies and American Woodmark show how APICS education helps organizations achieve their goals.

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Calendar of Events

What's coming up . . . 

• CLTD Certification Review - starts Thurs, 1/12/17
• CSCP Certification Review - starts on Thurs, 1/19/17
• Project, Process, and Organizational Management - Tues, 1/24/17
• Detailed Scheduling and Planning - starts on Tues, 1/31/17
• Advanced Inventory Managment Workshop - Wed, 2/8/17
• Strategic Management of Resources - starts Mon, 2/13/17
• February PDM - Featuring Carol Ptak - Mon, 2/13/17
• Certified Demand Driven Planner (CDDP) - Tues & Wed, 2/14 & 2/15/17
• Lean Intro and Continuous Improvement Workshop - Tues, 2/21/17
• Supply Chain Strategy & Alignment - Simulation Workshop - Wed, 3/8/17
• CLTD Certification Review - starts Wed, 3/29/17
• Master Planning of Resources - starts on Wed, 3/29/17
• Basics of Supply Chain Management - starts on Mon, 4/3/17
• Principles and Practices of MRP for the Mfg Planner - Thurs, 4/6/17
• Physical Inventory Management Workshop - Tues, 4/11/17
• Execution and Control of Operations - starts on Tues, 4/11/17
• Demand Management and S&OP Workshop - Wed, 4/19/17
• CSCP Certification Review - starts on Wed, 5/10/17

>Link to the Events Calendar.

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Welcome New Members

APICS Twin Cities Chapter extends a warm welcome to the following new members:

December 2016:

November 2016:

October 2016

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Congratulations Newly Certified Members

Congratulations to the following APICS members who recently achieved CPIM or CSCP Certification!

December 2016
Matthew Gutz, CPIM - Wipaire, Inc.
Marc Gendry, CPIM - Toro
Ling Kuang, CPIM - Specialty Manufacturing, Inc.
Alexander St. Peter, CSCP - CH Robinson
QuianRuo Sun, CSCP - Donaldson Company
David Trask, CPIM - Graco, Inc.
Kevin Reeping, CPIM - 3M
Angelo Marasigan, CPIM, CSCP - Lake Region Medical
Kelly Cichoski, CSCP - Land O'Lakes
Nicholas Zaffke, CSCP - CH Robinson
Hans Davidson, CSCP - CH Robinson
Ritesh Gupta, CSCP - Accenture
Khanya Lemus, CSCP - TEL FSI
Lindsay McFarlin, CSCP - CH Robinson
Blair Damhof, CSCP - Dell

November 2016
Zak Ulwelling, CSCP - CH Robinson
Kehui Chen, CSCP - Cummins Power Generation
Luke Fritze, CPIM, CSCP - Sweet Harvest Foods
John Muir, CSCP - CH Robinson
Jonathan Learn, CSCP - CH Robinson
Jonathan Maruk, CSCP - CH Robinson
Jingjing LIu, CSCP - Cummins, Inc.
Joshua Taarud, CSCP - CH Robinson
Paul Carney, CSCP - CH Robinson
Matthew Law, CSCP - CH Robinson
Robert Mulvihill, CSCP - CH Robinson

October 2016
Laura Rau, CPIM - Graco, Inc
Christopher Rutten, CPIM
Nathan Messer, CPIM
Christopher Rohwer, CSCP - CH Robinson
John Augustiniak, CSCP
Mariluz Lopez-Franco, CSCP - Medtronic

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Board of Directors Column

February 2017 Board of Directors Column Vinh Ho, CSCP Vice President Academic & Career Development

Welcome to the Heartland District!

Now that you’re an APICS-Twin Cities Chapter member and have been attending monthly Professional Development Meetings (PDMs), you’re also well aware of APICS’ well-respected industry-leading CPIM, CSCP, and CLTD certifications. Next on your list may even be attending the APICS national conference, which happens to be taking place in San Antonio, Texas in 2017. What you may not be aware of is that the Twin Cities Chapter is a part of an APICS Regional District, called the Heartland District.

The APICS Heartland District is comprised of 7 Upper Midwestern states: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas and includes approximately 15-20 APICS chapters from this region. The Heartland District is governed by a board which is lead by a District Manager (Beckie MacDonell). Quarterly meetings are held in various locations, rotating from various cities such as Des Moines, Iowa; Wichita, Kansas; The Quad Cities; St. Louis, Missouri; Winnipeg, Canada; Cedar Falls, Iowa; and the Twin Cities.

During district meetings, which are held over a weekend at a host city hotel, one can expect about 5-7 chapters represented and about 30 chapter leaders in attendance. On Fridays, there is usually a manufacturing site tour, while the evening is reserved for fun and socializing. Saturdays are where the Heartland District meetings get down to business and includes a series of presentations on chapter sharing, student presentations, APICS headquarter update, C-BAR (criteria to measure how a chapter is doing to fulfil its chapter obligations), CTLD certification update and other relevant APICS news and information. The weekend is usually concluded by a group dinner at a local restaurant.

As you can see, at the Heartland District meetings there is a lot planning, training, and sharing of ideas to make the Twin Cities Chapter one of the premier APICS chapters. Perhaps it’s your turn to take the baton and to volunteer on a committee or to serve as a board member. It’s reassuring to know the Heartland District is there to help you serve in whatever capacity you choose.

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THE UN-COMFORT ZONE with Robert Wilson

Free Your Mind From Worry

Stuck in a worry loop? Here’s how to break free.

I have had some friends and relatives who worried all the time. About all sorts of things. Most of which never came to pass. The problem for me, was that all the exposure to their negative thinking was contagious. And, then I’d find myself worrying about things too.

I have on occasion had some serious things to be concerned about, but I’ve found that when I worry, I lose sleep which in turn causes me to get less accomplished. So, I try to keep my problems in perspective.

I recall a friend’s grandmother saying, “Worry is like a rocking horse; it consumes time and energy, but gets you nowhere.”

Worry stems from our fear of the unknown. It is the anticipation of potential negative outcomes. We get anxious when we have invested time and effort into some endeavor; and it is reasonable to have expectations of the future. Worry in small doses is normal. It is tied to our sense of caution, and it helps us make plans, anticipate problems, and accomplish goals.

Too much worry, however, creates stress; and stress shuts down our ability to think creatively. When we can’t think creatively, we can’t solve the problem we were worried about to begin with.

I like the term: Future-Tripping because it aptly describes what we do when we worry. We stop living in the present; because we are spending all our time living in our mind hashing out the various possible scenarios the future may bring.

Shantideva, an 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk, put it this way, “If the problem can be solved then why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”

We can stop those thoughts by asking ourselves, “What is below the anxiety? What am I most afraid of? For me the recent economic recession would occasionally send me into near panic as I watched my business slow down. The things I feared were months away, and could only come true if absolutely nothing changed in my life. Life however is constantly changing, and new opportunities arise every day.

I find I can control my negative thoughts by bringing them down to that which I can work on today. If my worry is really out of control, I will only focus on what I can accomplish over the next hour.

Sometimes I find mundane yard work helps me break the worry pattern - because like riding a rocking horse - it burns time and energy, but at least I’m accomplishing something. For me, the repetitious nature of mowing the grass or raking leaves has a meditative effect.

The purpose is to change your perspective. Others activities which help do this include, walking, hiking, biking, skating, working out in the gym. You want to shift your thoughts from negative to positive. Exercise makes you feel good which in turn leads to good thoughts.

Go to Bed; Take a Bath; Ride a Bus.

These relaxing activities encourage daydreaming. Many times it is in a moment of repose that we find the solution to the thing that is worrying us.

It was while relaxing in a bath that, Archimedes, the Greek mathematician and inventor, solved the problem of how to determine the density (mass per unit volume) of an object by measuring the amount of water it displaced.

Albert Einstein, who had been working on his theory of relativity for a long time, finally solved it by going to sleep. His equation E=MC2 came to him in a dream. He said he dreamed he had fallen off a mountain, and that as he sped faster and faster toward the ground, he looked up at the stars and saw that their appearance became altered as he approached the speed of light.

Kent Boxberger, an Atlanta-based business coach, says, “If you’re feeling worried, you're not feeling free. You feel encumbered by something. You can’t be worried and find a solution at the same time. To get out of worry-mode you have to think some different, 'better-feeling' thoughts, so that emotions can change direction. Continuing to look at the problem is like quicksand - the more you struggle with it - the worse it gets.”

“The first step is to realize what you are doing, and become conscious of the worry. The second step is understanding that the solution is not found by continuing to look at or think about the problem. The third step is to focus your thoughts on something else that makes you feel good. It is when you release enough resistance that an idea, toward solving the problem, will come.”

If you are finding it difficult to shift your thoughts, Kent suggests, “Take a nap to stop the momentum. It’s the most powerful thing you can do. It’s like a reset button.”

And, remember, if you’re feeling overwhelmed, it is always cool to ask for help.

Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. is an author, humorist-speaker and innovation consultant. He works with companies that want to be more competitive and with people who want to think like innovators. Robert is the author of ...and Never Coming Back, a psychological thriller-novel about a motion picture director; the inspirational book: Wisdom in the Weirdest Places; and The Annoying Ghost Kid a humorous children’s book about dealing with a bully. For more information on Robert, please visit http://www.jumpstartyourmeeting.com

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