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Welcome The 4th Annual North East District Student Competition will be at UConn this year (2012). Thank you to the students, volunteers and the sponsors for their past participation. Click here to registration information. Join us for the 4th Annual APICS Northeast District Student Competition which will be held on April 21, 2011 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. This annual competition allows college students to showcase their skills and knowledge of the field of operations management. Last year 68 students from 11 different universities competed in the event. Executives from a diverse group of industries served as judges for the event. Companies represented included BD Biosciences, Bigelow Tea, BASF, Dupont, Welch's, GN Netcom, Webster Industries, GE, and Covidien. Attendance is complimentary to APICS members and includes lunch. This is a great opportunity to meet the best young talent in the country! Students, this is your chance to network and make a good impression with industry leaders! You also have a chance of taking home cash prizes which will be awarded to each of the top 3 teams in the graduate and undergraduate tracks. Registration is only $100 per team. Form your team now and register here.
Welcome to the website of Boston APICS a 2011 Platinum award chapter. The Boston chapter reached Platinum status this year. We have an energetic and highly accomplished Board! Congratulations team! You all have voted your confidence in us and the Boston Chapter of APICS. We have turned out a stellar year with great programs and Educationa Seminars. Your confidence has manifested in growing chapter membership. The Chapter membership has grown 15% over the previous year at 236 members as of June 1 and counting! This is the first year of growth in a long time. We thank you! As we care about our audience and stakeholders, we really want to hear your feedback! Tell us what will make your APICS experience better. Send an e-mail to the President Donna Woodcome at president@bostonapics.org. Want to join us? Be sure to check off Boston as your local chapter. Academic Professionals and Students: Boston APICS adds no additional fees to your APICS membership: $25 gets you in! These links will take you to the International APICS web site where all applications are processed: Professional Membership - Academic Professional Membership - Student Membership Education NEW! NEW! NEW! APICS HQ working with the National College Credit Recommendation Service organization has received their recommendation to award College credit hours to students passing APICS Certification Exams. Their recommendations: CPIM Basics: 3 credit hours for associate degree & bachelor's degrees. CPIM ECO/MPR/DSP: 2 credit hours for bachelor's degrees CPIM SMR* & CSCP*: 3 credit hours each for bachelor's degrees Check with your College or University for specific applicability. *Under consideration for Master's degree credits Winter 2012 CSCP Public Class: five consecutive Saturdays starting 3-10-2012 2012 In House Course Offerings Boston APICS has a full time APICS Certified Master Instructor who is available to bring first class APICS education to you at your location; at your convenience. Contact Our APICS Certified-Master-Instructor Dave Rivers, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP at riversd5@gmail.com for more info. 1. CSCP: Certified Supply Chain Management Professional Classes. Use this workshop to prepare for the extremely valuable APICS CSCP certification or if you are simply seeking best in class Supply Chain education. 2. CFSCM: APICS Customer Focused Supply Chain Management: This one day seminar provides an insider’s view of supply chain management offering fundamental knowledge of the functions of SCM. The curriculum is designed to quickly and effectively educate team members who interact with or support supply chain activities, helping to increase efficiency and generate ideas for improvements. Brochure here. 3. CPIM: Certified in Production & Inventory Management 4. PRINCIPLES: APICS Principles of Operations Management..NEW!..Brochure
5. PMP: Project Management Professional We also offer the hugely popular Project Management course to prepare you for the PMP certification exam! Contact Jeff LeBlanc at leblaj@yahoo.com for more info. Alternatively on line CPIM study is available from Fox Valley Technical College. If you register be sure to tell them you were referred by Boston APICS. **MASSACHUSETTS WORKFORCE TRAINING FUND** Boston APICS is uniquely qualified to bring you Massachusetts State assistance in paying for your APICS education: Massachusetts Workforce Training Funds FAQ's. Mission/Vision The mission of the Boston Chapter of APICS is to be the premier provider of quality professional education that promotes the effective use of resources and the achievement of operational excellence by companies and organizations in the manufacturing, service and public sectors, within both our immediate and extended reach. Vision: The Boston Chapter of APICS is committed to fostering and improving regional industrial and service competitiveness and prosperity, in partnership and collaboration with other APICS chapters and professional associations. Student Benefits
We welcome students! If you are interested in starting a student chapter at your school, please contact us for details on how to get started. Otherwise join as an “At Large” student, email academics@bostonapics.org and we’ll get you onto our chapter mailing list. Membership fee for students joining APICS is only $25. Questions? Please contact Donna Boston: academics@bostonapics.org |
The President's Message from Donna Woodcome
Welcome prospective and existing members!
Hello from your new President. Hello! It has been a busy fall season for the Boston Chapter! In case you haven’t noticed on our website and email messages, the Boston Chapter was awarded Platinum status. This is the highest status that a chapter can receive and requires five years of Gold status achievement. Many thanks to all that have served on the board over the past several years and to our membership!! You have all contributed to this success! In September, we ran a well-attended PDM on Supply Chain Careers. During October, we hosted NESCON, a collaborative event with the North and South Shore chapters of APICS, along with PMAB. Once again, the team did an outstanding job and attendance records were broken!! Also in October, Mark Chockalingam (Immediate Past President) and I attended the APICS International Conference in Pittsburg. Two of our Board members, David Jacoby and John Willi, presented educational sessions before standing room only groups. It was an excellent, educational and networking event, with over 2000 attendees, representing 40+ countries. Mark your calendars for 2012, when the conference will be held in Denver! On November 15th, we held a sold out plant tour at Madico. Thank you again to the Madico team for an excellent tour! Dave Rivers, our master certified instructor is conducting a CSCP class that will run for the next several weeks. Look for more educational events in the New Year. 6th Annual Holiday Networking Event: The 6th Annual Holiday Networking event, which we host with the North and South Shore chapters of APICS and collaborate with CSCMP and PMAB, was a big success. Thank you to all of the sponsors and the attendees for your support. Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season!! Upcoming PDMs, events and plant tours
February 15th Plant Tour Greater Boston Food Bank, Boston, MA Register here
The next event is scheduled for March 13th. This is a PDM. Top Management Night with Jack Derby. "When Operations meets Sales 2.0" The 2011-2012 is posted on our event page. Member Benefits Given the tough economic times, our APICS national body has instituted a bail out program on its own. It has offered free membership renewals for unemployed members for a period of six months from the expiration of their current membership. http://www.apics.org/Membership/Join/unemployed.htm I would like to bring to your attention useful member resources on the APICS website including: Both resources are available on http://apics.org/resources. Nation wide job listings are available at the Apics career center. Finally do you know that, as a member, you can request a paper copy of the OMBOK, the Operations Management Book of Knowledge? You can download a pdf copy for your ready reference and also request the book be mailed to you. Boston Chapter of APICS has been associated with many successful professional events in the area. Our Holiday party jointly hosted with the North Shore and South Shore Chapters was a big success. I firmly believe that the supply chain profession is emerging as the most lucrative and rewarding career for aspiring professionals and Boston is leading the way in the North East! If you run across a publicly available article that you think might be interesting for everyone, please let me know. Send us the link and we may put it on our home page for everyone else to enjoy. Thanks. 3. Do you know we have a job Board? Check it out! 4. Please join us on our Linked In group: Concluded Events in 2010-2011 program year (partial list) September 20th 2011- PDM Supply Chain Careers - Panel Discussion / "Find and manage your opportunities" held in Waltham, MA Commodities Management - How Flextronics, a world leader in technology, design, and manufacturing manages commodities to achieve advantage in the global market May 17th 2011 Waltham Samantha Betancourt provided and overview of how Flextronics manages commodities. Thank you to all that attended and to the winners of the door prizes. Understanding and Improving Supplier Performance - April 19th 2011 at Boston University, Boston Sherry R. Gordon is President of Value Chain Group, a consulting firm that helps companies and their suppliers improve their performance and achieve measurable results by applying continuous improvement methodologies and technology to business transformation and operational improvement initiatives. BU Students attend for free, but we still need you to register
March 8th, 2011 "Managing Your Boss" Joint Meeting, Top Management Night pictures William Howell lead an excelleant presentation. His topic was about “Managing Your Boss” is an informative and entertaining discussion on how to successfully work for another human being or failing that, knowing when it is time to “exit stage left” from your current situation. This was a joint meeting with Boston and the North Shore chapters. There was over 50 people in attendance Feb 15th, 2011 Plant Tour Acme Packet in Bedford , MA - A tour of the Acme Packet plant was hosted by APICS and by Acme Packet "How acme used their interconnected supply chain to scale operations". This was an excellent tour with a lot of Q&A from the functional managers. We had over 40 people attend this tour. Feb 8th, 2011 Welch's S&OP / Sales and Operations Planning Takes Fruit The January PDM on S&OP at Welch's had a decent turnout of our members. We welcomed members from the Worcester Chapter to this meeting which featured a very popular topic.Ray Gosselin, Senior Director of Operations at Welch's walked the group through a very informative session on S&OP implementation. We had the opportunity to welcome his team of demand planners and master schedulers who came to share their experiences on the implementation. New Members Please join me in welcoming our newest members to the family of Boston APICS. We appreciate your interest and enthusiasm in the operations management profession! September 2011
Denise Cappello Baoma Yandava Jason Politi Julia Loiselle Mark Albonesi Matt Jaskolka Cassie Kern Edward Rolanti Andrew Sand Marysia Gasek Jean Cummings RussScheller Sahil Bhagat Alireza Sarmadi Rad Douglas Quattrochi Welcome Aboard! Academic Professional and Student Membership
APICS Academic and student memberships: Only $25! Check out the program details here. If you know someone who might profit from this new program, send them an e mail referencing our web site. We need new members, US Industry needs APICS educated leaders! Currently we have a membership drive, where we offer one PDM free to attend after you become a new member. This is in addition to the member PDM in September which is a career Panel. 2010-2011 Board of Directors
Click here for a list of the Officers Immediate Past President Mark Chockalingham PhD, MBA. Mark Chockalingam Founder and President of Demand Planning.net, specializes in business forecasting and demand modeling and marketing and value chain analytics. He has worked across many industry verticals including CPG, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, Food and Beverage, High-Tech, Restaurants etc. Immediate Past Past President of the Chapter: David Rivers CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP. Dave is also an APICS Master Instructor and he teaches the hugely popular CSCP classes for the Boston Chapter. Dave Rivers is currently the District Director and also a member of the APICS Board of Directors. We are honored to have him guide the chapter as a Past President and an APICS Board member. Mailing Address APICS Boston |
