APICS Michiana offers for its October Event: Plant Tour of Lock Joint Tube Tuesday, October 14, 2014 Lock Joint Tube was founded in 1919. Lock Joint Tube manufactures mechanical and structural grade steel tubing in four plants located in Indiana, Texas and Tennessee and is a privately-owned member of the Lerman Enterprise network of related-industry companies. Lock Joint Tube services fabricators and distributors, as well as original equipment manufacturers with different sized and shaped steel tubing used in such diverse industries as automotive, office furniture, health care, exercise and display fixtures to name a few. Lock Joint Tube provides the automotive market with a variety of component parts from exhaust systems on tractor trailer rigs to running board assemblies on sports utility vehicles to structural beams on Class A motor home chassis to the steel frames of trucks such as the Ford F-150. For the office furniture and institutional furnishings market, our material is specified for desks, chairs, tables, office partitions and cafeteria furnishings. In retail stores, our tubing forms the structure for many of the chrome plated and painted racks, shelving and merchandising islands for an assortment of goods. Dinner will follow at the attendees expense at the nearby Hacienda Restaurant. Please indicate whether you will attend dining following by signing up for the separate dining event. NOTE – this is a different Hacienda location. See below. Lock Joint Tube 515 West Ireland Road South Bend, IN Agenda: 5:30pm Check in, Tour 6:00-7:00pm Cost: $15 for non-APICS Members, $10 APICS Members $5 Student - ID Required This session is worth 1 Certification Maintenance Point(s) Click Here to Sign Up for the Tour Google Map and directions available by clicking here Once you have signed up for the tour, if you are going to join us for dinner at the Hacienda on Miami Street, click here to register for dining so we have an idea for asking for seats. Presidents Corner-Issue Two Hello fellow APICS-Michiana Chapter members! I want to first take this opportunity to introduce myself to you as your new chapter president. My name is Tom Sesterhenn and I am the Director of Supply Chain Management at General Sheet Metal Works in South Bend. Supply Chain Management is relatively new to me as I have spent the majority of my career in sales and business development. As a “newbie”, I joined APICS in order to learn (I am studying for the CSCP and plan to test late this year) and network. These are two of the fundamental values that APICS provides to professionals involved in operations and Supply Chain Management. I am both excited and honored to be in this role and look forward to building on the many good things that have been done over the past several years by other current and former chapter leaders. Ron Myers, our past president, and Gwen Spretnjak, our VP of Finance and Treasurer, and Doug Canter, our VP of Education, deserve some special mention here. Terrence Nugent, our former VP-Education just retired from his post (and tells us he is moving to the north woods!), and we thank him for his many years of leadership in the chapter. Your other fine chapter leaders are listed below. Any of us can be contacted by visiting the APICS-Michiana website at: http://www.apics-michiana.org/newBoard.asp Gwen Spretnjak-VP Finance and Treasurer Jackie Sittley-VP Marketing Eric Piazzoni-Internet Marketing and Webmaster Ron Myers-Past President and Webmaster Doug Canter-VP Education Robert Yagel-Membership Services and Instructor Laura Lasky-Secretary One of our first orders of business as an incoming board will be focusing on engaging our current membership… you! We will be contacting as many of you as we can directly to find out what you really want to see from the chapter in the areas of education, plant tours, PDM’s and networking. Ron, Gwen, Laura and I all attended the Great Lakes District Meeting September 19th and 20th. We heard from other chapter leaders about things that are going well for their chapters, as well as challenges they face. No matter the size or geographic location of the chapter, membership engagement was recognized as something that all want to improve. We must be relevant to existing members before we can expect to grow. Your APICS chapter continues to be recognized for excellence in management through the Chapter Benchmarking and Reporting (CBar) evaluation. First feedback from the district indicates that we have again achieved Gold level scoring. Since we have met these standards for 5 years consecutively (actually since 1985!!!), we are recognized by APICS as a PLATINUM chapter! One more good reason to be proud and participate! I look forward to seeing you at the next plant tour on Tuesday, October 14th at Lock Joint Tube. This is a great opportunity to learn about a strong local manufacturer and network with YOUR chapter! You can sign up here if you haven’t already. http://www.apics-michiana.org/newEventDetail.asp?ID=1202 Tom Sesterhenn President APICS Michiana Wanted: 1.4 million new supply chain workers by 2018 Most people don’t know what happens behind the scenes when they buy a product on-line or in a store. It is just available. The people that work to make that happen are working in the Supply Chain. They are those that deal with engineering, sourcing, converting/manufacturing, scheduling, customer service, transportation and logistics, quality and reverse logistics. The field gets overlooked by college students because they think of manufacturing and supply chain in the realm of fork lifts and smoke stacks. Get involved with education in the supply chain field and take advantage of the growing demand for qualified workers in various disciplines in the field. The good thing is that the demand is here now and will continue into the foreseeable future. Seek APICS certification to help you stand out against the job competition and gain a significant percentage of advantage over your uncertified peers in advancement and earnings potential. For more on this story, visit the APICS Michiana website at www.apics-michiana.org. Get started on your certification journey and start advancing your career and advancement potential. Has Your CPIM Certification Expired? Re-engage YOUR Expired CPIM With A New APICS CPIM Recertification Course APICS is announcing a new option for APICS Chapters and International Channel Partners interested in preparing candidates for the CPIM recertification exam. The CPIM Recertification Overview Course aligns with APICS's continued mission to advance supply chain excellence through education and certification. The chapter looks forward to re-engaging former CPIM designees to APICS through this course and the 2014 recertification exam. Note that this re-certification course as well as the CPIM re-certification exam is ONLY available to those who have not maintained their certification by meeting the required Maintenance points. To take a review course, the candidate must also be an active member. Note that this Re-Certification course and Test is another option to get your certification re-instated. Don’t forget to investigate if normal maintenance activities might be available to you to get your CPIM certification re-instated. You can perform activities that can earn you maintenance points sufficient to get you there for up to 5 years after your certification has lapsed. Check out the CPIM maintenance guidelines on the APICS website at: http://www.apics.org/careers-education-professional-development/certification/cpim If you fall into this category and want to re-activate your CPIM Certification, let us know at education@apics-michiana.org and if sufficient in number, we’ll put a course together for you. This Recertification test and offer is available only through December 2014 Register to Attend Or You Will Miss the Opportunity Save the date for the leading annual gathering of supply chain and operations management professionals worldwide! October 19–21, 2014 Ernest N. Morial Convention Center New Orleans, Louisiana Registration is Now OpenSupply chain and operations management professionals are expected to achieve maximum productivity, meet consumer demand, and remain agile amid instability and unpredictability. Each year, the APICS annual conference offers relevant education, best practices and thought leadership to help attendees lead their organizations to reach these goals. Click Here for more information on the Conference Let APICS Assist You in Advancing Your Career Determine the most appropriate APICS course suited for your career advancement. Follow this link, Complete this short questionnaire and get custom course recommendations for your educational needs to help you advance in your field. Recent District Meeting Notes Several of your chapter board attended the Great Lakes District Meeting on September 19th and 20th. Informative as always, we met and listened to the next APICS Chairman of the Board. Alan Dunn, speak on APICS Strategic Initiatives and progress on the integration with the merged Supply Chain Council. Sharon Rice of the APICS Staff talked about the emerging Membership Strategy and how APICS has to find a way to stay relevant with the new millennials and how has to draw them into participation, all topics of interest and with which the Michiana chapter is dealing with today. Not just millennials but with our existing member base, We need to hear from you and how we can keep our chapter moving into the future and meeting your needs. FYI - Other Local Professional Organization Events APICS Central Indiana APICS Chicago APICS Fort Wayne APICS Southwest Michigan Choosing an ERP System Always Greener - 6th Annual Case Competition N/A Emotional Intelligence 10-9-14 10-14-14 Great Lakes AME Michiana AMA Michiana ASQ Section 1005 Michiana IMA Michiana SHRM Michigan WERC Lean 2.0 - Smart Use of Tech to Accelerate Lean N/A Metallography as a Quality Inspection Tool Plant Tour Lippert Components, Inc 2014 Executive Leadership Forum Lean Processing, Increasing Efficiency & Profitability 10-8-14 10-21-14 10-16-14 10-21-14 10-15-14 10-16-14 APICS Michiana 2013 – 2014 Chapter Board of Directors Executive: President Tom Sesterhenn General Sheet Metal Works Phone: 574.288.0611 VP Finance & Treasurer Gwen H Spretnjak CSCP HJ Enterprise Phone: 574.309.3850 Secretary Laura Laskey Operations: Webmaster Ron Myers CPIM CIRM Eric Piazzoni Phone: 269.208.3595 Phone: 574.239.2444 VP of Education Douglas M Canter CPIM CIRM CSCP Nyloncraft, Inc Phone: 574.256.1521 ext.231 VP of Programs Jackie Sittley PSSI, Inc Phone: 574.239.2444 VP of Membership Robert Yagel CPIM Benteler Automotive Phone: 832.727.3462 Career Opportunities Ron Myers CPIM CIRM Retired Phone: 269.208.3595 Marketing VP of Marketing Jackie Sittley and Eric Piazzoni PSSI, Inc Phone: 574.239.2444 Chapter Instructors Douglas M Canter CPIM CIRM CSCP Nyloncraft Inc Phone: 574.256.1521 ext.231 Robert Yagel CPIM Benteler Automotive Phone: 832.727.3462 You could step into a role here. Contact us if you have an interest in volunteering with the Michiana Chapter. Help us move forward and keep the chapter great! VP of Publications Ron Myers Retired Phone: 269.208.3595 Communication is important and the Michiana Chapter Needs to do More of It With You For the chapter to continue to exist and provide benefits to you and others in the community, we need to find out what you want us to do for you, how we can help you succeed in your career, how we can help your employers and our member companies improve performance and prosper. We would like to, again, take this Opportunity to reach out to you to tell us how we can help you, what you want of the Chapter. Contact MichianaPresident@apics-michiana.org and let us know your thoughts on what we need to improve.