Annual Holiday Party & “Bring Your Boss” Evening!

Wednesday, December 3rd

Culture + Patience = Sustainable Success Jason Wheeler, CPIM, CSCP –

2014 Chair of APICS International

Top companies have a great culture (Google, DreamWorks Animation, Whole Foods) that others strive to emulate.

Why are some successful and others not?

How to avoid the flavor of the month label when rolling out a new philosophy?

During this presentation, we will review what seems to be a pretty simple philosophy while most companies struggle with it every day. Why?

We will discuss some of the key factors for building a strong culture that will be sustainable for years to come. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of what it takes to make your new culture philosophy have that “stickiness” factor.

3 Take Aways

Gain a better understanding of the challenges to creating a sustainable culture.

Learn about some new tools around building a stronger culture.

Leave inspired to make a positive change or begin on a program at their company.

Who Should Attend: Anyone that wants to impact the culture within their company.

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4:45 – 5:30 Pre-Dinner Presentation – Robert Russo 5:30 – 6:15 Registration & Networking – Complimentary Wine & Beer 6:15 – 6:30 President’s Welcome / Chapter Business 6:30 – 7:15 Plated Dinner & Discussion / Speaker Introduction 7:15 – 8:15 Presentation & Discussion – Jason Wheeler 8:15 – ??? Holiday Gifts and Drawings for all attendees

WITH Reservations: $45 Full Time Students: $25 Register: www.APICS-CJer.org

Pre-Dinner Presentation – An Overview of 5S You will learn

What is 5S

How 5S will help you become more efficient

How to conduct a 5S project

What are the pitfalls

Takeaways

How to conduct a 5S project

How to sustain the results

Who should attend?

Anyone that is responsible for employees

Anyone that would like to do an easy improvement project

A Very Merry Christmas & Joyous Holiday Season

The Hotel Somerset – 110 Davidson Avenue – Somerset, NJ 732 560-0500

Jason Wheeler, CPIM, CSCP is employed by Roche Diagnostics, where he is currently serving as a Pro-cess Improvement Engineer within Warehouse Operations. He has been at Roche since 2004 and has held several roles including Planner/Buyer and Supervision of multiple areas within Warehouse Operations. Pri-or to moving to Roche Diagnostics, Jason spent over 9 years at Red Gold, LLC in various roles.

Since 2003, Jason has served APICS in roles at various levels of the organization. He held several roles at the local chapter level including Chapter President. During the years at the local chapter, he was recog-nized by his peers as Board Member of the Year in 2005-06 and 2006-07. Jason also served in various positions at the District and various Committees at the Association level. In 2007, he was selected to partic-ipate in the first APICS Future Leaders Summit held in Chicago.

Jason is currently the Chair of APICS for 2014. As chair of the board he will be the chief elected officer and will preside at all an-nual and special meetings of the membership, board of directors, and the leadership team. As chair Jason will oversee the activi-ties of all committees' activities to ensure they comply with the association's objectives and achieve established goals.

Robert Russo, has been working for MTF for over 7 years and has been in tissue banking and medical de-

vices since 1993. He is CPIM certified from the APICS and is the Director of Student Affairs and Education of

the Central Jersey chapter. He has been in manufacturing most of his career with extensive experience in

inventory control, production planning, purchasing, shipping, receiving, warehousing and distribution.

Over the past 12 years most of his focus has been in Lean Manufacturing, Lean Office and Continuous Im-

provement. Since joining MTF in 2006, he has been involved in many internal and external Lean projects

and Kaisen events. He has had extensive Continuous Improvement training including Carpedia College, a MTF consulting firm, in

which he was a full time member.

Additionally he consults with an outside firm to secure training grants from the State of New Jersey for MTF to continue its Lean

and Six Sigma endeavors.

And a Very Happy New Year

Executive Message:

Happy Holidays! The APICS- Central Jersey Chapter, BOD has been concentrating on upcoming 2015 events that will greatly benefit you,

our members, with fascinating topics, education classes that will expand your knowledge & help you to achieve your APICS certifications, as well as,

motivating PDM speakers & pleasurable networking opportunities. Our December speaker, Jason Wheeler, CPIM & the 2014 Chair of APICS Interna-

tional, will be presenting at our December 3rd Annual Holiday PDM. Please joins us at this exhilarating PDM & you are invited to “BRING YOUR BOSS” to

the evenings’ festivities, as Jason looks at a few of today’s TOP Companies & discusses some of the key factors for building the “Culture + Patience

that helps achieve Sustainable Success”. As in the past, you know that our Annual Holiday PDM will be exciting, fun-filled, & thrilling with good food,

great company, & wonderful prizes!

APICS-CJER continually offers valuable certification classes all year long, so please check our website for additional details at www.apics-cjer.org. This

is a great way to be a more beneficial employee to your company & make yourself more marketable for any future endeavors. So check out our classes

today.

I hope to see many of our members, students, and a few bosses, at this Wonderful Annual APICS Event!

Berni Kahle, CPIM

APICS-CJER Secretary

E0820 Director of Supply Chain - Global leader in protective gears seeking a Director of Supply Chain to join their team in central NJ. this is a highly visible role that will report directly to President and General Manager. Company has operations in 35 countries. This position will Manage regional planning function includ-ing Demand forecasting, demand planning, inventory control, procurement, efficiencies in procurement, maintain or supersede existing quality specifications for procured materials, establish vendors/suppliers relationship to ensure efficient quality management systems. This position will ensure that procured hardware components and raw materials are meeting the quality standards and will seek timely resolution of all "non-conforming" purchase goods. In addition, this indi-vidual will play an important role in the negotiating material pricing proposals and development of vendors/suppliers network to mitigate sole sourcing, and as-sure competitive price situations. Position will also be responsible for the company's Small Business program.

E0819 Demand Planner - Global leader in protective gears seeking a Demand Planner (ATP Planner) to join their team in central NJ. This is a highly visible role that will report to Supply Chain Manager. Company has operations in 35 countries. This position will Manage regional planning function including Demand planning, Available to promise and inventory control. This position will ensure that order fill rate is maintained and will keep track of netable quantity on hand, planned orders, scheduled receipts (purchase orders, purchase requisitions, and production (discrete and repetitive), Demand from sales orders, planned or-ders Production orders and forecasted demand.

E0818 Senior Account Manager (Holmdel) - As a member of our Supply chain group, the Account Manager will have responsibility for all client communications and conflict resolution. Responsible for the completion of launches for clients and meeting or exceeding all deadlines and/or client expectations.

E0817 Material Planner/Buyer - Direct the day-to-day planning, purchasing, and expediting activities that support the manufacture to order production cells to ensure uninterrupted production.

E0814 Buyer / Planner- Responsible for the direction and coordination of daily production, planning and scheduling production in work centers; maintaining a dispatch list; quoting; placing orders; expediting raw material requirements; and controlling inventory levels

APICS Central Jersey Chapter Education News The Central Jersey Chapter offers both Public supply chain management courses and Private courses tailored to the specific needs of individual companies. Day and evening classes are offered If you are interested in holding CPIM Classes or the CFSCM at your company , please contact Jeffrey Bragar at jbragar@verizon.net

Education Schedule: Public evening classes 6pm to 9pm Class Date Registration Deadline

BSCM-Basics of Supply Chain Monday Jan 05, 2014 10 classes Dec 11, 2014

MPR-Master Planning of Resources Tuesday Jan 06, 2015 8 classes Dec 11, 2014

DSP-Detailed Scheduling and Planning Tuesday Mar 10, 2015 8 classes Feb 12, 2015

ECO-Execution and Control of Operations Tuesday Jun 02, 2015 9 classes May 7, 2015

SMR-Strategic Management of Resources Tuesday Aug 11, 2015 8 classes Jul 16, 2015

CSCP Certified Supply Chain Professional Saturday Jan 31, 2015 6 classes Jan 9, 2015

All Public CPIM classes are held at The Hotel Somerset – 110 Davidson Avenue – Somerset, NJ 732-560-0500

For a complete description of the classes or to register for a class, go to:

http://www.apics-cjer.org/Education.html

Young Professionals' Networking Event

The Young Professional Group held a successful networking event on Nov 13th.

We had some great discussions, a lot of positive feedback and requests to have another event.

Watch for emails on the next event.

We also had several non-APICS members attend.

If you want to be added to our e-communications, send your email to ABShaffer@yahoo.com.

New Career Opportunities…(visit our website for the complete job list)

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Oscar Medina Oxford

Anita Jacob Merck & Co

Joshua Chelli

Kelly Spence Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products

Prashawn Collins

www.APICS-CJER.org

601 1st Ave Apt#5

Asbury Park, NJ 07712

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