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President’s Message August, 2008: Chapter Mantra: “Networking, Knowledge,
Recognition, Fun” The Knowledge Part of the Mantra I hope our program participation will continue the very high level of attendance. We thank you for your support. We have arranged for a wide range of topics that we hope will be of broad interest to our members. Our programs attempt scheduling, well in advance for two reasons: the speakers are in high demand and a desire to give visibility for your scheduling. We understand our membership has demands on their time: work, family, leisure, and professional development among others. Our topic line up includes, “Negotiating and the Cowardly Lion: aka Negotiate with Courage”- Rick O’Malley, Vendor Managed Inventory – Mike Gozzo, Alternate Funding (hard to manage resources when you have no funding) - Dave Becker, Economic Forecast 2009 – Dr. Jay Tontz (one of my favorites), EPR/E-Commerce (Dr Zinovy Radovilsky draws like a rock star). Rick Merritt, President of Santa Clara Chapter of APICS is lined up for May 2009 with a topic TBD in Operations Management. Chuck Mignosa is slotted for Jan 14th with a topic in quality – TBD. The Networking & Fun Part of the
Mantra When we have the attendance, we have experienced in the last year as we start our new year on September 10th, meeting others is a critical factor for gaining professional knowledge of problems solved (which supports the first part of the mantra), job opportunities, socializing, and of course Massimo has great food. The Mission Peak Chapter’s Board of Directors strives for the membership to have a bit of fun at the PDM. The Recognition part of the Mantra You will notice we strive to communicate “Why Members Join” section on the website that includes Bio, Picture and a paragraph. Monthly, “Presidential Salutes” to an outstanding active member are also included. We are a volunteer organization and payment for a job well done is recognition by the membership, in terms of their comments, renewed memberships and participation. Our Chapter has submitted review for a Gold rating to the National Headquarters in Chicago. This would be our recognition by our peers that we have met and exceeded APICS Chapter standards. I look forward to seeing you in September.
Hank Zoeller, CFPIM, C.P.M., CSSBB
Archive of Monthly President's Messages See Pictures from Our 2008 PDMs Here
Congratulations to Chuck Dewey Mission Peak Chapter's Member of the Year for 2008
Chuck with President Hank
Congratulations to Dr. Jay Tontz Mission Peak Chapter's Instructor of the Year for 2008
Dr Jay Tontz not only gave us another forecast for 2008, but has been a true crystal ball for 15 years. His dedication to California State University East Bay is without peer. I look forward to his presentation in Feb 2009, so I will be well informed going into the new year.
Congratulations to Flash Electronics Awarded Company of the Year by Mission Peak Chapter of APICS
Jean Zhao, Sweader Shih, Hank Zoeller, Michael Fu Madhu Nimgaonkar, Jean Zhao, Sweader Shih, Hank Zoeller, Michael Fu
Jean Zhao, Sweader Shih, Hank Zoeller, Imelda Dela Cruz, Michael Fu
APICS
Mission Peak Chapter receives Gold Award for 2007
We have received the following message from the National APICS Organization: "Congratulations! The Mission Peak Chapter has qualified for the Gold Benchmarking and Reporting (C-BAR) award level. Your award submission demonstrates your chapter's dedication to providing exemplary member services and professional development opportunities to APICS members and customers."
Join APICS This is the application to join APICS on line http://www.apics.org/Membership/Join/ . Join APICS and select MSPK as your Chapter. Link to the APICS national web site: CLICK
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Chuck Dewey, a design engineer by trade, has been our Vice President of Programs for 2 years. He is the contact for reservations for our Professional Development Meetings (PDM’s). This entails coordinating with the restaurant (Massimo’s) head count and entrée and accommodating changes from Wednesday to Thursday due to speaker availability. Chuck insures availability of the projector and recording the audio of the presentation for posting to the web site. This effort is mission critical for those members who want to be at the PDM, but due to demands of work, family, and schedule cannot be present, but want the information. He has represented the Chapter twice at our District meetings, in far-flung places like Reno and Honolulu, Hawaii. Yes, I know it is a tough assignment, but someone had to answer the call of duty. In Reno, Chuck did spank the Casino and in Hawaii, he did get a wonderful bar tan. I write that with tongue in cheek He also presented the awards to our students at a recent banquet honoring 4 students from University of California East Bay, Rong Chen, Darcy Duckenfield, Patrick Murphy, Jessica Wong for their academic achievements. Again, Congratulations to the students!! I must laud Chuck’s efforts in making our PDM’s very successful and recognize Chuck’s participation on the Board of Directors, which has been invaluable. Chuck - Thanks for a job well done….
Chapter Hall of Fame - Archive of Presidential Salutes
Why I joined
APICS? Hi, I’m Kristi Ushiro and very excited to be joining the MSPK chapter of APICS. I started my career in 1994 at Raychem Corporation in the Product Development group but was always intrigued with manufacturing. So, when an opportunity arose to move into a manufacturing engineering role in 1996, I jumped at the chance and have been in manufacturing ever since. After Raychem, I joined a fiber-optic start-up called LightLogic in 2000 to manage their process engineering group, and then Intel Corporation acquired LightLogic in 2001. I still reside within this Intel division, managing the New Product Introduction engineers, collaborating with R&D to design product and develop the supply chain for HVM. I have worked closely with many incredibly talented individuals managing a complex supply chain, inventory, supply/demand planning, and I am continually awed by their deep understanding of Operations and by how effective they are at making tangible, bottom-line contributions to the business. My admiration for their skills inspired me to join APICS, and I look forward to this opportunity to further my skills in Operations Management and meet more inspirational people in the Operations world. Kristi Ushiro I did follow up on Kristi’s CSCP application with Henri Wingfield and Jesse Aguilar at APICS HQ. They followed up and sent Kristi an e-mail confirming her qualifications to take the CSCP test. Many Thanks goes to Henri Wingfield and Jesse Aguilar for being responsive to our members. This is not exceptional; they are very dedicated people in serving our membership. Kristi sent me this e-mail- Ahhhhh!!
Thank you so much for helping to get my eligibility application
processed in time for the June exam!!
I just checked my home e-mail and was so excited, my kids and
husband thought I’d gone nuts!! Thank you!! I
have a study schedule planned out, and I’m registering for the exam
tonight. I really can’t
thank you enough!! I was very
touched that any one who wanted to study seriously for the CSCP exam
was that excited. My
response, was - All the credit goes to the fine people at APICS
HQ..... Jessy Aguilar & Henri Wingfield ..... Thanks Hank Last time I checked being a working Mom, soccer Mom, wife and Mother is definitely an awesome challenge, in addition to preparing for a very serious challenge of the CSCP exam is exemplary. Of course, in my great wisdom, I advised to go kick butt on the examination, which I think she will do.
Archive of "Why I Joined APICS" stories
Download Previous Presentations: Jeanne Beacham - Opportunistic Approach to Growth Dr. James Harrington - Organizational Excellence Kristin Gault - Quest for Success Dr. Jay Tontz - 2007 Economic Forecast Steve Novak - Pump Up Your Profits Steve Novak - Through the Maze Workshop Chuck Mignosa - Making Quality Magical Zinovy Radovilsky - Job Market Requirements in Supply Chain Management (Audio Only) Job Market Requirements in Supply Chain Management (PowerPoint Presentation) Patrick Pickerell - Job Shop Scheduling and Simulation (Audio Only) Job Shop Scheduling and Simulation (PowerPoint Presentation) Michael Ibrahim - Does RFID Payoff, Seriously? Does RFID Payoff, Seriously? (Audio of final 31 minutes of presentation) Dr. Jay Tontz - 2008 Economic Forecast 2008 Economic Forecast (Audio Only) Steve Novak - How Lean and Six Sigma Fit Together How Lean and Six Sigma Fit Together (Audio Only) Dave Lechleitner - Technology Enabled Job Shops of the 21st Century (Audio Only) Technology Enabled Job Shops of the 21st Century (PowerPoint Presentation) Ed Mercado - Hands-On Inventory Management (Audio Only) Hands-On Inventory Management (PowerPoint Presentation)
Kaiser Permanente Supply Chain Presentation: Skip Skivington Presents the Kaiser Permanente Supply Chain
I thought I'd share with all of you my
thoughts on the new electronic "live" APICS Magazine which
made it's debut on August 1st. We had an opportunity to walk
thru it at the BOD meeting in Chicago a couple weeks ago, but I just
took the time now to test it out as a user. I really like its
ease of use and flexibility. It is now searchable with direct
web links. You can now download a page, pages or the
entire magazine and store it in your own files. You can send
articles to friends or your boss, if you're sharing an idea.
You can "click on" the blue bar of an advertisement and go
directly to their site. The new "live" version also
provides a much needed quicker way for our international members to
get their copy.
If you weren't already aware of this I
just wanted to bring it to your attention. If you want to try
it, just go to our website www.apics.org
and click on the magazine cover on the front page and it will take
you to it.
Mel
Mel Nelson, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP
M.N. Nelson & Associates, Inc. 1963 Shenandoah Ave. Milpitas, CA 95035
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