As we reach the end of summer, let’s not forget that means that the next year of APICS Wichita events is ready to begin. Your Board of Directors has been meeting throughout the summer to provide you with a full year of tours, classes and professional development meetings. We are still finalizing some of our events for this year, but I encourage you to look elsewhere in this newsletter and on our website (www.apics-wichita.com) to see what we have planned so far.
I would like to thank those board members from last year for the hours of work that went in to making us a successful chapter. The 2010-2011 Board of Directors mostly remains the same as last year. We have a new Student Program Coordinator (Kumar Nilesh), and I’m sure he’ll be a useful addition to the Board. Also, our VP of Programs has had to resign, so I would like to fill that open position on the Board. If you are interested or know someone that may be, please let me know. No experience is necessary, and this position would be a good “starter” position on the board since much of the planning has already been done this year.
If you were planning on attending the APICS International Conference in October, the location has been moved from Nashville to Las Vegas. Further information about the conference may be found inside this newsletter.
Please join us on September 14th as we conduct our first PDM of the year. Mark Woeppel will be our speaker, and his topic will be “Perfect Execution: A Solid Foundation for Ongoing Improvement.” If you want to improve your company’s delivery performance, then I suggest you come hear Mark’s ideas. Our monthly PDMs will again be held this year at the Southside Education Center (4501 E 47th St South).
I look forward to seeing many of you soon at one of our upcoming events this year. Thanks for being part of APICS.
Brian Hickman, CPIM, PMP President, 2010-2011
Wichita Chapter of APICS
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Link to April 13, 2010 presentation
At our April meeting, we enjoyed an excellent presentation by Tom Schulte on how to stay positive in a tough work environment (click for a ppt of the presentation).
