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Welcome
Hello and welcome to the Southwest District of APICS.
APICS Southwest District represents the members and customers
of Southern California, Arizona, Southern Nevada, and Baja
Mexico. We have an active membership that includes over 4500
individuals and companies supporting APICS's vision of life
long learning for lifetime success.
Each of the Southwest District's 15 Chapters allow members
to hear real life success stories of production and inventory
improvements through professional development meetings, workshops
and seminars, and CPIM and CIRM certification preparation.
We at the Southwest District are working diligently to assist
the local chapters with information, training, education products
that will assist you and your company in the coming months
and years. Your local Chapter professionals can provide classes,
networking opportunity, in-house training and seminars to
target and support the continuous improvement process that
many of us are undertaking.
The Southwest District Staff is ready and able to assist
you with any questions or suggestions that you might have
as well as direct your inquiries to your local Chapter for
more personalized service. Please give us a call or email
to let us know how we're doing or how we may better serve
your needs.
Sincerely,
District Meeting
The Next Southwest District
Meeting - August 7th and 8th, 2009
Location: The Hotel Arizona, Tucson, AZ (map)
Theme: "Leadership in Changing Times"
Information will be added as soon as it becomes available.
See you in Tucson, AZ in August !!
Review information from the February 2009 district meeting
and Student Case Competition HERE
West Coast Scholars Take 1st Place Again!
The winners of the APICS International Case Scholars competition,
held in September in Kansas City, was won by the Southwest
District West Coast Scholars team that had placed second last
April in the 2nd Annual West Coast Case Competition.... more
information
2008 Milt Cook Award
Jimmy Zepeda, who chaired the selection committee, presented
the 2008 Milt Cook Award to Sandy Friedman on 9 August
2008 during the SW District Meeting in Las Vegas.
Sandy Friedman, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP, PMP, Past President of
LAPICS and, currently, the Ambassador for the San Diego Chapter
has a long career of service to APICS and embodies those traits
and dedication to excellence exhibited by Milt Cook, who passed
away in 1990 and was a long-time member of APICS and the SFV
Chapter. Sandy, as with the recipients before him, was selected
from the others nominated by District members for the award,
which is the highest District award for service and dedication
to the District and principles of APICS.
LAPICS Grand Prize Winner
LAPICS has been recognized by APICS as among the 4th Quarter
2007 winners of the Chapter Incentive Program and was also
named the Grand Prize Winner. The Incentive Program recognizes
chapters for their contribution to increase the APICS presence
in their local markets. Chapters across APICS are divided
into 4 groups by size to ensure fairness and winners are selected
based on reports of APICS certification, new members, and
APICS Bookstore sales. The LAPICS Chapter was recognized as
a winner in the area of new members.
As a quarterly winner, the LAPICS Chapter received a prize
and became eligible for the quarterly Grand Prize Drawing.
As the quarterly Grand Prize Winner, the Chapter was able
to select either a laptop computer or an LCD projector for
the Chapter; LAPICS selected the laptop computer.
New Web Address
Accompanying the change from Region 7 to Southwest District
is the change of the web address from apics7.org to apicssouthwest.org.
About APICS
APICS
-THE ASSOCIATION FOR OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
APICS
The Association for Operations Management is the global leader
and premier source of the body of knowledge in operations
management, including production, inventory, supply chain,
materials management, purchasing, and logistics. Since 1957,
individuals and companies have relied on APICS for its superior
training, internationally recognized certifications, comprehensive
resources, and worldwide network of accomplished industry
professionals. To learn more about the APICS community, visit
www.apics.org.
The
organization is divided into fourteen regions consisting of
over 270 chapters. The Southwest District consists of sixteen
professional chapters in California, Arizona, Nevada and Mexico.
In addition, there are student chapters at universities and
colleges within the region.
Membership
Membership
applications for APICS are available on-line. Before
submitting your application we suggest you contact your local
APICS
Chapter to learn more about the membership process
and fees as well as the locations of meetings and classes.
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