President's Message
April 8, 2009
Congratulations...
…to Cornelius Rivera (IGT) and Mark Denninger (IGT). Both chapter members recently achieved CPIM certification……a significant accomplishment.
Scholarship Available
APICS’ Northern Sierra Chapter is again offering a five-hundred dollar scholarship to be awarded to a student in the Operations Management field. The student must be attending an accredited post-secondary school or APICS-sponsored courses.
Application is simple. Just submit a brief document telling us where you’re attending courses, what you are studying, how you plan to apply the knowledge you’re gaining, and how the scholarship would help. Please send applications to scholarship@apics-nors.org by May 1, 2009. The scholarship recipient will be notified by May 8, 2009.
The Board of Directors of APICS’ Northern Sierra Chapter will review applications and award the scholarship based on merit. The Board of Directors of APICS’ Northern Sierra Chapter retains all decision-making authority and the Board’s determination shall be final.
An Invitation to APICS Members
APICS members are invited to a Global Supply Chain Security and Compliance Roundtable presented by the TMCC Logistics Management Program. The event will be held April 20th from 5:30-8:20PM at the TMCC Dandini Campus in Room 256 of the Red Mountain Building. There is no cost.
Learn how companies are successfully navigating the security and compliance issues that have developed since 9/11. Company executives will introduce themselves, their companies and their strategy for managing security and compliance. Questions and open discussion will follow.
Please contact Melanie Lawler, Coordinator for Logistics Management and Entrepreneurship, with any questions. mlawler@tmcc.edu or 673-7064.
More Nuts and Bolts
The most recent President’s Message presented facts and figures about APICS and the Northern Sierra Chapter. A bit more: Although non-profit, the Northern Sierra Chapter is very similar to a small business. Increasingly, the chapter manages its affairs through technology. What was once a very manual paper-based system is now dependent on a number of electronic applications. The chapter’s financial records are maintained through an online service. Credit card processing is provided by an online service and banking information is accessed online. We aren’t one-hundred percent up to date, for security reasons the chapter does still write paper checks. Our website hosting is provided by a service designed specifically for APICS chapters. The chapter controls and manages the content, the service provides the framework. Our emails and newsletters are generated and distributed through a commercial email management service. Again, the chapter controls and manages the content, the service provides the framework. Our member and participant surveys are conducted over the web using a commercial survey service. We exchange membership data with APICS electronically and we maintain our corporate records with the Nevada Secretary of State online. All of this, saves the chapter’s volunteer leaders an enormous amount of time while providing our members the most current information.
David Steiger, CPIM
