DC Metro NEWS. President's Message

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1 DC Metro NEWS APICS DC Metro Chapter June/July Volume 14, Issue 5 President's Message In This Issue Our Educational Programs We had a very successful year with approximately 300 members, 1000 followers, 35 training classes, and 40 new certifications. You can look forward to next month's newsletter where we will have an updated calendar with amazing professional development meetings, networking events, and classes. Upcoming Education Events Logistics Automation for Hospitals APICS DC Metro News Trending Now A Warm Welcome to our Newest Members! Congratulations to the BoD team on your new appointments. Please contact me if you are interested in becoming a volunteer! Rene Alaniz Newsletter Editor Yu-Cheng Chien VP Membership Humberto Coronado Director Sponsorships Elif Derince Tasci VP Student & University Affairs Brian Frank Director-at-Large Rick Frisby Webmaster Gene Gam VP Strategic Partnerships Kurt Grela VP Programs Yatong Han Director of Arrangements

2 David Garrett Steve Schrader Benjamin Thomas Michael Harris Joni Holeman Dorinda Lesniak Ryan Lombard Andrea Nieto Irv Varkonyi Carmen Zapata Past President VP Education VP Finance VP Marketing Executive VP Treasurer Director Operations The Board of Directors is here to serve you, so please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions, ideas, would like to sponsor APICS DC Metro, or would like to offer your company as a host location for an event. Join us on LinkedIn We look forward to seeing you at our next event in August and wish you much success with your career goals, achieving certifications, and taking advantage of APICS in Building Opportunities! All the Best, Patty Stockton President, DC Metro Chapter Our Educational Programs ****************************** Congratulations to our 2013 Certified Members! CPIM: Nalin Amin Farshid (Brian) Behmardi Jason Druckenmiller Lisa Harris Scott C Myers Maryam Rafiei Shalita Robinson Kristen Rusynyk APICS educational programs are recognized worldwide as providing operations management professionals with relevant, essential education which equips them for today's fast-changing marketplace. DC Metro's offerings emphasize hands-on training and are customized to engage all types of adult learning styles. We have three types of training categories: Professional Development Workshops, Certification Review Courses and Principles Workshops. Click here for our full-year schedule If your company is interested in scheduling an onsite private course, please contact education@apicsdcmetro.org.

3 Bryan Skulsky Philip F Waring Christy L Werwie Angelica White CSCP: Joseph Alvarez Maryam Amin Oluwaseun Ayanniyi Adam Baranowski Jonathan Brooks Christopher Caulfield Esther Chhakchhuak Michael Chiang Chui Chiu Rose Cunha Michael Danzer Nichola D Down Kurt Grela Erwin Godoy Stephen Jewett Jamal Jowers Derrick V Le Tak Kei Lee Nora Maresh Alexander Massey Brian O'Connor Bryan O'Guin Matthew Schlueter Kelly F Sparks Erica E Stewart Cameron Tew Benjamin Thomas Scott Yancey For more details, to request a customized training configuration or for onsite quotations, please contact Joni Holeman at either or via education@apicsdcmetro.org. Upcoming Education Events Aug 2013 Aug 5: Roanoke 4-Monday CSCP Workshop, Aug-Sep 2013 Yokohama Tire Corporation, 1500 Indiana St.

4 Sep 2013 Salem, VA Sep 7: MPR 3-Saturday Sterling Workshop, Sept 2013: Sterling Classroom, 910 N York Road, Sterling, VA Sep 18: PDM in Gaithersburg, MD Patton Electronics 7622 Rickenbacker Drive, Gaithersburg, MD For a complete list of education events, click here Logistics Automation for Hospitals ************************** *** Members Celebrating Their 5-year APICS Anniversaries: Jie Zick, CPIM Linda Nordstrom, CSCP APICS DC Metro News

5 Thank you all for your loyalty and steadfast support! ******************************* Corporate Sponsorship Program APICS DC Metro offers corporate sponsorships to interested organizations. They are a great opportunity to get more involved in the APICS DC Metro community while building awareness of your products and services to a motivated audience of business decisionmakers. Sponsorships offer a wide range of customized benefits and are available in three tiers. For details, click here. Have a question about our Corporate Sponsorship Program? them to evp@apicsdcmetro.org APICS DC Metro is the Washington, DC area chapter of APICS, The Association for Operations Management. APICS is the global leader and APICS DC Metro TTT/LDI Instructors Recognized for Exemplary Training Skills Ms. Maryanne Ross and Mr. Irvin Varkonyi were saluted for their exemplary training skills on Friday, June 28 during our recent Train-the-Trainer/Learning Dynamics for Instructors workshop. DC Metro deeply appreciates their energy and student support efforts over the course of the past several years. Brookstone all-in-one tools were presented to Irv and Maryanne in appreciation for their countless hours of preparation and teaching our APICS concepts. We are lucky to have these talented instructors on the DC Metro team! Trending Now Ann Drake, CEO of DSC Logistics and one of the few female chief executives in the logistics industry, discusses the supply chain as a career path for women and the goals of AWESOME (Achieving Womens' Excellence in Supply Chain Operations, Management and Education), a new organization that she founded. There never has been a better time for women to enter the field of logistics and supply chain management, says Drake. "The kind of talent that is needed in the industry today is that of orchestrator - people who are able to pull together different pieces and teams to work across organizations and silos," she says. "This is something that most women naturally do quite well." Read more... The new masters and commanders China's growing empire of ports abroad is mainly about trade, not aggression

6 premier source for the body of knowledge in supply chain and operations management, including production, inventory, materials management, purchasing, and logistics. For more info, visit FROM the ground, Colombo's port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away. But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka's capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India's southern tip. Read more... Download the APICS 2013 Conference and Expo Program Forward APICS DC Metro Chapter P.O. Box 10 Sterling VA 20167