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by Brian Ferris, CPIM, CPM |
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APICS
International Conference and Exposition
First of all I want to plug the APICS International
Conference and Exposition being held this year in Orlando. It
will be a great benefit and opportunity to all who attend. The
dates are October 29-31 and more information is available at
www.apics.org.
Second, we have a tremendous meeting in store for you in
October. Joe Shedlawski CPIM and the President Elect of APICS
will be our speaker; it will also be Top Management Night and
Past Presidents Night. Please be sure to attend.
We just found out that we maintained Platinum status with
APICS and the WSU Student Chapter also achieved Platinum
status. Congratulations to the board and students for their
hard efforts in making this happen.
Finally, I just returned from the APICS Leadership
Institute and am pleased to report things are going well. Many
chapters are reporting a tremendous increase in APICS
Certification classes and it would appear many more companies
are going to begin requiring it. But the main focus is on CSCP.
Classes are springing up all over the United States and there
is tremendous interest in that certification also. It does
appear that we are still going to be stuck with paper and
pencil testing through 2007, but that may not necessarily be a
bad thing. Statistics show that people who take the paper
tests have a higher pass rate then the electronic form. It is
believed that when you don't have the option of selecting the
date, you wind up being better prepared. We are working on
making Wichita a test site for the next exam.
Hope to see you in Orlando!
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