Advancing Productivity, Innovation, and Competitive Success

APICS Student Chapter Meeting

Jan. 30, 20076:00pm

Advancing Productivity, Innovation, and Competitive Success

Tonight’s Agenda

• Introduction of New Members• Recruitment & Class Presentations• Case Study Competition in Chicago• International Student Paper Competition• Feb. 8th PDM in Indy• Upcoming Plant Tours• Alumni Donations• APICS Student Elections for Next Year

Advancing Productivity, Innovation, and Competitive Success

New Student Chapter Members

• Nathan Wright• Jason Bowman• Katie Gilbert• Michael Timmerman

• Dan Calhoun• Tim Hoffman• Brad Luetje

Advancing Productivity, Innovation, and Competitive Success

Recruitment/Class Presentations

Classroom Presentation Schedule

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Student Case Competition

• Feb. 16-17th in Downers Grove, IL

• Includes a 3 pg. paper & 5 min. presentation.

• 2-12 members can participate on each team.

• Over $10,000 was donated last year.

• Each school represented wins money.

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Donald W. Fogarty International Student Paper Competition

• Due Date: May 15, 2007

• Region Level International Level

1st Place $250 $1000

2nd Place $150 $500

3rd Place $100 $250

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Paper Competition Guidelines

• Papers on any topic relevant to operations management will be considered, including inventory management, Just-in-Time, logistics, manufacturing processes, master planning, material and capacity requirements planning, production activity (shop floor) control, systems and technologies, and supply chain management.

• To download the Donald W. Fogarty International Student Paper Competition instructions, visit:

www.apics.org/Education/ERFoundation/Competitions/DWF

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Upcoming PDM

• Thursday Feb. 8th @ 5:30pm• Location: Embassy Suites North• Speaker: Jan Steiner-Soukup

– The Topic will be on “Cycle Counting”

• Sign up at: http://www.apics-cind.org/PDMs.html

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Upcoming Possible Plant Tours

• Reebok

• Eli Lilly

Advancing Productivity, Innovation, and Competitive Success

Alumni Donations

• In order to maintain the funding that we need to cover the costs associated with the trips that we make and the things we do as a chapter, we need to ask for donations from alumni and various businesses.

• This includes writing letters and placing phone calls.

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Student Chapter Elections

• Positions up for grab include:– President– Vice President– Secretary– Public Relations– Finance– Web Master

• A ballot system will be used to elect the new members.

• New positions will begin in March or April.

• Student elections will be discussed in more detail in the next chapter meeting.

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