MIDLANDS APICS Professional
Development Meeting
“Lean Supply Chain”
In his talk on Lean Supply Chains, Pat will explain what this is and the steps an organization takes to become World Class in this area. He will also provide case examples of companies that have achieved World Class supply chains and what it has done for their businesses
Presented by: Pat Bettini
Thursday,
January 15, 2009
Please sign up by
Noon, Monday
January 12
For your
convenience register using the email link below..give
your meal choice.
Location: Lazlo’s Brewery & Grill
2425 S 192nd
Street, Omaha, NE 68130 (402) 289-5840
Cost: $25
Dress: Business Casual
Agenda:
5:30 pm - Networking (cash bar)
6:00 pm - Dinner
6:50 pm - Short Business Meeting
7:00 pm – Presentation
Menu: Please select one when you make your reservation
1. Fresh Salmon – Served with baked potato, Salad Lazlo, coffee or tea .
2. Prime Rib 8oz
Steak –
Served with baked potato, Salad Lazlo, coffee or tea.
REGISTRATION (Required):
Reservations are required for PDMs. We
on the Midlands BOD appreciate the fact your schedule is very fluid and that
plans change. It would help us immensely if you put your reservation in by the
deadline and if plans change, please let us know. The unfortunate fact is that
many caterers require a firm commitment on the number of meals 3 days in
advance and we are billed for that amount no matter what. So, please keep us in
mind if your plans change. It will help us hold down our PDM costs.
To make reservations for the dinner meeting
(please include your meal choice) and (optional) your company. Please email
(email is the preferred method) your PDM reservation and meal choice no later
than
Monday, January 12, 2009.
Ray
will confirm your reservation. Send your reservations to:
Ray Hogan, FDR
Email : ray.hogan@firstdata.com
Phone : (402) 222-6093
Lean Supply Chain
In
today’s competitive global market, nearly everyone has heard about companies
outsourcing their product overseas to places like China and India. Most people confuse cost-cutting initiatives
with delivering true value through an organization’s supply chain. Making one’s supply chain Lean is not the
same as getting the lowest price for a product or component. It is not about demanding price reductions
from suppliers. It is also not about
pushing inventory into someone else’s warehouse!
A
Lean Supply Chain is a process that looks across all areas of a business,
including its suppliers, and drives out waste and inefficiency. Lean is about continuous process improvement
and collaboration with all the various entities of one’s supply chain – both
internal and external.
Many
companies suffer from a missing ingredient when building and refining their
supply chains – integration. They lack a
single coherent strategy that focuses the organization around their core supply
chain goals. A lot of times the goals of
the supply chain group conflict with the overall mission of a business. A Lean Supply Chain starts first with a
business’s strategic focus and uses this to drive alignment across the
organization and out into the supplier network.
In one sense, when a company implements a Lean Supply Chain, they are
starting with a blank sheet of paper and working backward from their end goal –
better alignment to their customers.
World Class companies drive collaboration to both the end source of a
product and the end customer, regardless of the number of tiers or borders they
must cross.
Pat
Bettini’s BIO
Pat Bettini’s experience as an ERP and SCM
practitioner, consultant, educator and senior business manager spans over 35
years. As an Oliver Wight Senior Partner, Pat specializes in consulting,
education and support for ERP/SCM business system implementations, including
Repetitive, Process Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Food, Garment Manufacturing,
Hard Goods Make-To-Stock and Make-To-Order, and Aerospace and Defense Contract
Manufacturing. Additionally, he heads
the Software Selection and Evaluation Practice for Oliver Wight and serves as a
manufacturing system software selection and audit expert for the group Oliver Wight will join us first thing to field and open
questions before we caucus on our group direction and next steps
His 35 year career covers “hands-on” management as a Manufacturing Engineer, Production and Inventory Control Manager, and Materials Manager, followed by a move to the Manufacturing Systems Division of Xerox as a Senior Consultant and subsequent Director of Education and Consulting for Manufacturing Systems Implementation Services. He gained senior management experience as Vice President of U.S. Sales for a West Coast international corporation specializing in computer hardware and software for the manufacturing and distribution industries.
Pat’s ERP/SCM implementation and software selection assistance experience covers a diversity of industries, with significant implementation consulting and education involvement and contribution in over 50 ERP/SCM projects, including: Corning Glass, TRW, Aerojet, Martin-Marietta, Northern Telecom, Scoville, Pfizer, Dresser Industries, Ciba-Geigy, Syngenta, Mova Pharmaceuticals, Banner Pharmacaps, American Cyanamid, Bristol Myers Squibb, Navistar, Hobart Food Equipment, Proctor & Gamble, Motorola PCS, Artesyn Technologies, Kellogg Foods, Medco Health Solutions and Sonoco Paper.
He has been an
active APICS member and frequent speaker at international, regional, and
chapter meetings. He became APICS certified in 1979, and has a number of
published articles in industry magazines, journals, and APICS papers to his
credit. His primary goal as a professional consultant is to use his
best-practice experience to guide and assist manufacturing and distribution
companies in becoming successful, self-sufficient, Class “A” ERP users.