Summer Plant Tour Series
Kimmie Candy Company
When: August 10th, 2010 6:00p
Where: 525 Reactor Way, Reno, Nevada, 89502
Northern Sierra Chapter's
final tour
of the Summer Plant Tour Series is August 10th at 6:00 pm featuring Kimmie
Candy Company's Reno manufacturing Plant.
Come visit a success story of onshoring here in Reno. Kimmie Candy Co. is a southeast Reno manufacturing company specializing in candy-coated, chocolate covered sweets. Sunbursts, ChocoRocks, and Baby Dino Eggs are among its most popular product lines.
Joseph Dutra, president and chief executive officer of Kimmie Candy, purchased the factory in 2004, moved his offices in 2005, finished restructuring the building and bringing in equipment by 2006 and began limited production of his goods early this year, with partial production in Korea.
Note Well: No Open Toe, Heeled, or Tennis Shoes
Allowed on
Plant Tour. No Shorts or Skirts. No Loose objects.
Registration: Click Here
Limited to the first 30 registered
|
Cost: Note: Refreshments will be served after the tour |
Presidents Message
July 1, 2010
SUMMERTIME . . .
“A perfect Summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.” James Dent
Skip the lawn mowing and come to our second plant tour at NV Energy’s Tracy Power Generation Plant on July 13. Plant tours give a different perspective of local companies’ facilities -- from the inside -- and we hope they inspire questions related to production and inventory management opportunities. Plus the environment is different than at our Professional Dinner Meetings which are held September through November / January through May.
If you are not able to attend in July, watch for more information on the August plant tour, which is sure to be sweet! And speaking of PDMs, in September we are inviting PMI-NNV chapter members to join us for a presentation by a dynamic and competent speaker who will enlighten us on a technical subject that is apropos for both groups. More information will be forthcoming next month.
Other news and events about which our members will want to be informed:
• In case you haven’t heard, the APICS International Conference & Expo this year will be held at the Wynn Las Vegas, October 18-20, 2010. General session speakers include LT. General Russell L. Honore, who led Task Force Katrina, and Bert Jacobs, co-founder of the Life is Good Company. The conference is truly international and has an excellent lineup of educational sessions outlining best practices for operations management. More information can be found at:
APICS International Conference
• APICS now has available a new Customer-Focused Supply Chain Management Course, which offers fundamental knowledge of the functions of SCM and is designed to quickly and effectively educate team members who interact with or support supply chain activities. Those team members may be from sales & marketing, accounting, information technology, or senior executive officers. Please provide any feedback so we can start planning for this course if there is interest. Email President@Apics-Nors.org for more information.
We are making final plans for the next CSCP Review Course to be offered in the fall, scheduled to end just in time for the next computer-based testing exam window. If you are interested or need more information, let us know.
Our chapter strives to provide interesting PDMs of value to our members, and we seek your help with suggestions for speakers in the field of Supply Chain and Operations Management. Please consider this as opportunity to support your chapter with any leads you can impart.
Happy 4th of July to all!
Linda McNeil, CPIM President
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CPIM Review Course in Minden
Strategic Management of Resources Classes
Mondays & Thursdays
5:00 - 8:00 PM
August 2, 2010 - September 2, 2010
In this course, students explore the relationship of existing and emerging processes and technologies to manufacturing strategy and supply-chain-related functions. The course addresses three main topics: aligning resources with the strategic plan, configuring and integrating operating processes to support the strategic plan, and implementing change.
For maximum comprehension of course content, students should be familiar with the information and concepts presented in other CPIM modules before taking this course.
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August 9, 2009 - September 9, 2010
This course focuses on material and capacity scheduling and planning. It includes a detailed explanation of material requirements planning (MRP), a technique suitable for use in job shops. The course also introduces another material planning technique, material-dominated scheduling, which is applicable to process industries and other mature production environments. The course explains capacity requirements planning in detail and introduces other capacity-planning techniques, including processor-dominated scheduling.
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Since 1973, the CPIM program has educated more than
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The Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) program is a new industry educational and certification program created to meet the rapidly changing needs of the supply chain management field.