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Education Topics
Lean Manufacturing
Inventory Short Courses
APICS Connection
APICS Connection
Your Resource to Increase Business Performance
The APICS Connection is a monthly e-newsletter designed to keep you informed about educational opportunities within the APICS community. We hope you enjoy this consolidated approach to informing you about
what's happening at APICS.
Contents
• Truly Unbiased Equals Truly Useful
• Sneak Peek: APICS Magazine, September Issue
• Casting Call: "I am APICS" Ad Campaign
• Career Development Tools Provided by APICS
• Seeking APICS Instructors
• Upcoming Educational Events
Truly Unbiased Equals Truly Useful
If you’ve ever tried to find reliable, unbiased information on software packages available in today’s marketplace, you know how difficult and confusing the process can be. Many Internet "software lists"
are little more than traps used to capture and distribute your name to software vendors and service providers.
APICS magazine is pleased to announce a new member benefit designed to meet this need for APICS members. We have worked with the research team at SoftSelect Systems, LLC, in developing and making available
the Online Software Database. This searchable tool, featuring comprehensive and carefully maintained information, is updated on a regular basis and is useful in
• challenging the suitability of existing business software systems
• developing software long lists for replacement projects
• challenging the validity of short lists during replacement projects.
Because no money is taken from software vendors for their listing, and because the research process does not depend on vendors’ supplied answers, the information presented offers a high level of credibility and
usefulness. In addition, APICS and SoftSelect understand the privacy concerns many individuals have when using Web-based enterprise software lists. Please note that APICS has arranged access to this database in such a way that members are not asked to leave any contact information.
Why not take a moment to visit the APICS Web site and test drive the Online Software Database for yourself? You’ll find it at http://www.apics.org/,
on the home page.
Career Development Tools Provided by APICS
The APICS Career Center provides career development tools for members, on topics such as résumé guidelines, interviewing tips, and how
to market yourself.
If you are considering a job change, the essential tool for marketing yourself is your résumé. Even if you are not actively searching for a new position, it’s a good practice to keep your résumé up to date
for when opportunity arises.
Visit the APICS Career Center to read about résumé tips in the article, Résumé Technical
Points, by Marshall Brown and Annabelle Reitman. The article provides 15 guidelines to follow when developing your résumé.
Once your résumé is polished and ready, remember to take advantage of your APICS member benefits. You may confidentially post your résumé online for review by prospective employers. In addition, members may
sign up for Notify Me!, a job alert service, to have new job listings delivered by e-mail.
Many local chapters offer career assistance in the form of résumé services, local job listings, and networking. To locate the chapter nearest you, go to the Membership section of www.apics.org and use the Chapter
Locator.
Seeking APICS Instructors
APICS is currently seeking résumés for full-time instructors in the following areas: Ogden, Utah; Macon, Georgia; Dayton, Ohio; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Instructors should have professional experience in operations management and a background in adult education. To read the
position description for Purchasing Supply Chain Management instructors and apply online, visit the APICS Career Center today!
Inventory Short Courses
- Basics of Inventory Management
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Objectives:
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Provide a basic description of the functions of inventory management
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Define various methods of inventory management
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Discuss real world applications of inventory management
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Topics:
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Inventory management systems
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Costs associated with inventory systems
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Quantitative methods of inventory management
- Cycle Counting
Objectives:
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List the true purpose of cycle counting
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Perform an ABC analysis of your inventory
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List at least five benefits of cycle counting
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Correctly define a "control group" and its use
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List at least six common causes for inventory errors
Topics:
- MRP/Bills of Material
Objectives:
- Build bills of material that accurately define a product
- Describe the use of planning bills such as common parts bills or modular bills
- Perform an MRP explosion
- Use MRP-generated action messages
Topics:
- What is MRP?
- Benefits of using MRP
- Requirement for MRP to work
- Bills of material
- Planning factors
- Assumptions we make
- MRP process
- Physical Inventory
Objectives:
- List areas that require preparation
- List preparations for those areas
- Define criteria for control of inventory tags
- Properly prepare counters
- Properly reconcile count discrepancies
- Effectively work with auditors
- Complete and close a physical inventory
Topics:
- Defining a physical inventory
- Preparing for a physical inventory
- Conducting the physical inventory
- Reconciling the difference
- Reporting results
- Tricks, traps, problems and solutions
- Distribution Inventory Management
Objectives:
- Describe the distribution model
- Identify the strategic planning issues
- List the operational activities
- Execute effective inventory management
- Implement JIT/lean practices
- Perform ROP, DRP and qualitative factor calculations
Topics:
- The distribution network model
- Objectives of distribution
- Distribution activities
- Replenishment methods
- JIT/ lean trends
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Lean Manufacturing
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There are seven individual course within this series. Outlines are listed below:
- Introduction to Lean Manufacturing
- Waste Elimination
- A Lean Improvement Methodology
- Leadership
- The Transparent Workplace
- Lean Process Improvement
- Lean Product Development
- Just-In-Time
- Controlling Processes
- Standard Work
- Continuous Improvement
- Lean Mapping
- Types of maps used for lean
- Value-stream mapping
- How to identify your company's value stream
- How to create a current state map
- How to develop other useful maps
- How to analyze a current state map and develop a future state
- A framework for lean implementation using mapping
- 5 S
- Intro
- Learn by doing
- Definition
- Phase 1-Sort- Exercise 1 Tackle disorderliness and cleanliness
- Discuss sorting observations
- Audit a shop for sort
- Phase 2 -Set in Order Exercise 2 Develop new layout
- Discuss Set in order observations
- Auditing set in order
- Phase 3 of 5 S Shine/inspect
- Exercise 3 Identify and develop a plan for cleaning and equipment maintenance
- Phase 4 Standardize-Exercise 4 plan for standardization
- Discuss Standardize observations
- Phase 5-Sustain Exercise 5 Plan to sustain 5 S
- Process Improvement & Quality
- View from the Gurus
- Lean view and kaizen
- Problem solving and PDCA
- Types of defects
- Sporadic problems, seven tools and five whys
- Chronic problems and six sigma
- Improvement Types
- Improvements events
- Holding the gains and sustainability
- Lean Scheduling
- Frameworks for lean scheduling
- Relationships between lean, MRP, APS and TOC
- Managing queues and flow
- Effects of variation (statistical fluctuation and dependent events)
- Building blocks for lean scheduling
- Eight lean scheduling ideas
- CONWIP and POLCA
- Standard Work
- Elements and methods of standard work
- Cellular manufacturing
- Time observations, process capacity studies and team activities related to standard work
- Prepare standard work documents
- Lean Teams, Lean Design and Accounting
- Team and leadership models for lean
- Lean measurements
- Lean accounting and costing
- Lean design considerations
- Modularity and platforms
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