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January 2024 ASCM-IE MEMBER UPDATE

February 6, 2024 1:26 pm Published by apicsie Comments Off

As we embark on 2024, it’s clear that we are facing yet another year marked by significant challenges and transformations within supply chains.

We have a webinar series planned with discussions on what is critical for success in 2024. We also have our annual member appreciation event coming up, as well as educational opportunities.

Our mission at ASCM-IE is steadfast: to provide our members and aspiring supply chain management students with support through valuable information, top-tier education and opportunities for meaningful connections.

For Businesses:

We understand that every supply chain is unique. That’s why we can deliver educational programs tailored to your organization and access to expertise and a wealth of resources designed to drive success through your supply chain.

For Supply Chain Professionals:

Whether through customized company classes, obtaining certifications, participation in insightful webinars, utilizing our extensive resources or connecting with fellow professionals at events, ASCM-IE is committed to enhancing your body of knowledge and advancing your career.

Let’s navigate the challenges and seize the opportunities of 2024 together! Check out our upcoming event and opportunities below.

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The Current State of Supply Chain & Logistics Webinar with John Mims – June 10, 2022 at 12pm Pacific

May 27, 2022 11:37 am Published by apicsie Comments Off

Emerging with Supply Chain Strength Webinar

The Current State of Supply Chain & Logistics with John Mims

Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 12pm Pacific

Supply chain disruptions continue to persist with a potential tidal wave coming with the Shanghai lockdowns and implications from the Russia-Ukraine war. Thus, we wanted to circle back to this critical topic for the latest status from ocean freight to air freight and beyond including the latest statistics and complications related to e-commerce. Supply chain leaders are perplexed as to how to handle inflation and deflation simultaneously, and so our speaker will talk through the current state of supply chain and logistics so that you can get a lay of the land and begin thinking about the path forward.

Duration: 1 hour

About the Speaker

John Mims is the EVP and CSO at SHIPSTORE Software, an industry-leading multi-carrier small parcel and freight transportation management technology company. Mr. Mims has over 20 years’ experience in the transportation and logistics industry, and was previously the Vice President of Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions at Echo Global Logistics, one of the top 5 largest logistics firms in the U.S. Earlier in his career, Mims spent over a decade on Wall Street as a Transportation and Logistics Equity Analyst at FBR Capital Markets and BB&T Capital Markets.

Mims earned an MBA from the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business and an International MBA from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien in Vienna, Austria.

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Emerging with Supply Chain Strength Using RFID Webinar – March 25th, 12 noon PST

March 22, 2022 9:35 pm Published by apicsie Comments Off

Emerging with Supply Chain Strength Webinar

Emerging with Supply Chain Strength Using RFID with Jon Andresen

Friday, March 25th, 2022 @ 12pm Pacific

The webinar will discuss the importance of accuracy first, and then speed, of data entry, and the cost of data mistakes. The short term risk of improving your digital systems is cost, and the long term advantage you’ll be ahead of your competition for ever and ever. Heading in the right direction – digital data – will never be a mistake as that is where the world is going and you want to be ahead of the curve!

Main topics:

Now is the time to get ahead of the competition
Now is the time to improve/establish your automated systems when others are afraid
Not talking about “digital transformation” of you whole operation – just get better/faster/cheaper
Stop allowing data mistakes – very expensive
Use of AutoID technology – barcode and RFID – to stop making mistakes
Advantages of RFID over barcode
Accuracy is more important than speed in data entry
Use of digital data – if it’s in the computer, leave it in digital form
Cost of data mistakes
Hardware – Software – but don’t neglect Peopleware
RFID – “Transparent Data Collection®”
Examples from the airline industry
Q&A

Duration: 1 hour

About the Speaker

Jon Andresen is the president at Technology Solutions LLC in Ventura, California. He is a business & technology consultant – integrated systems designer, RFID expert with emphasis in the aviation sector, eBusiness expert, especially ATA Spec2000, and has an MSME from MIT.

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Special Report for Thriving in 2022: Learning From Supply Chain Chaos

March 1, 2022 8:34 pm Published by apicsie Comments Off

Thriving in 2022
Learning from Supply Chain Chaos

Special Report from our President, Lisa Anderson

Since 2021 was certainly a year of volatility and supply chain disruption, when I started thinking about publishing a predictions report for 2022, I thought it would be most valuable to focus on what we learned from the supply chain chaos in 2021 and how we should take control and proactively position our businesses as well as our manufacturing operations, extended supply chains and related technologies to thrive in 2022.

As we have been emerging from the pandemic, I see that businesses have more opportunity to pull substantially ahead of the competition than any other time since the period following the Great Depression. The strong will get stronger! Are you thinking four moves ahead? If so, you’ll THRIVE in 2022. Download our special report to gain 22 insights from trusted advisors to kick-start your thinking.

Stay Tuned for Classes, Webinars &
Career Postings at inlandsouthernca.ascm.org!

Endowed Scholarship in Memory of Benjamin M. Schlussel

February 23, 2022 12:57 am Published by apicsie Comments Off

Benjamin M. Schlussel
Supply Chain Scholarship

We hope this isn’t a repeat email, but we heard the first email didn’t arrive in several inboxes and so I’m resending with a new title. For those of you who received it, I appreciate your patience.

ASCM/ APICS Inland Empire Members & Colleagues,

We are thrilled to announce that we have established an endowed scholarship fund in the memory of our former President, Ben Schlussel.

Benjamin Schussel Ben was an avid APICS supporter and had a passion for teaching the fundamentals of operations and supply chain. He volunteered to “write the book” with APICS, contributing to the development of certification courses over the years. Ben was a well-respected and popular instructor who engaged his students in learning.

We especially appreciated that Ben helped us transition our chapter from struggling to thriving in the mid-2000’s. He established cash reserves and put together a Board of Directors to carry the mission forward. We appreciate Ben’s leadership and passion, and our Board of Directors has taken what he started to the next level. We are proud to be known as innovative and focused on the future of the profession.

We believe students and young professionals are the future of our profession and critical to the success of manufacturing, distribution and supply chain. I was thrilled to co-lead the regional student case competition (of course with the support of the Board and with my co-leader Ellen Kane, who has passion for the future of the profession as well), and our Board of Directors engaged students in local, regional, national and global competitions and events. We support student chapters at Cal State San Bernardino, Cal Poly Pomona, UCR, and Keck Institute. For these chapters as well as for Norco community college, we fund student scholarships. Students, please join a chapter or contact us to create more!

Additionally, we support teams of students in case competitions, awards programs and other educational and networking programs from our student chapters as well as Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna, and Norco College. We have been very excited to have multiple global and regional winners from the Inland Empire! GO students! And thank you to our student liaison, Tony Martinez for his tireless efforts with our students.

Recently, we took our support of students a step further and established an endowed scholarship fund in Ben’s name at Cal State University San Bernardino. We are excited his legacy will be carried forward. See the letter about the scholarship here –
https://inlandsouthernca.ascm.org/wp-content/uploads/CSUSB-letter.pdf

career postings at inlandsouthernca.ascm.org!

The Ports & the State of Logistics Webinar with Jon DeCesare – January 14, 2022 at 12pm Pacific

December 17, 2021 10:26 am Published by apicsie Comments Off

Emerging with Supply Chain Strength Webinar

Emerging with Supply Chain Strength Webinar

The Ports & the State of Logistics
with Jon DeCesare

Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 12pm Pacific

Supply chain disruptions are dominating the news, and the ports have had a backlog of container ships for months with no end in sight. Thus, we wanted to take a deep dive into what has caused these issues, why it appears as though the ports cannot catch up and what is really involved in digging out from this situation. Our speaker will provide insight into the state of ports and logistics as well as talk through what he sees in the future and how it will impact businesses and the supply chain in 2022.

About the Speaker

Jon DeCesare CMC* is President of WCL Consulting, Inc. After spending more than fifteen years in senior executive management positions with major transcontinental trucking operation, importer and third-party logistics providers, Jon wanted to use his in-depth supply chain knowledge and experience to solve goods movement issues and challenges in the various global supply chain stakeholder industries. He works with clients to improve their business results by solving complex supply chain problems and optimizing goods movement networks. Jon is specialist in supply chain interface issues including ports of entry, third-party logistics partnerships, and warehouse location optimization.

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Supply Chain in the EU & Changes with Brexit Webinar with Patrick Daly – December 6th at 8am Pacific

November 19, 2021 10:42 am Published by apicsie Comments Off

Emerging with Supply Chain Strength Webinar

Supply Chain in the EU & Changes with Brexit
with Patrick Daly

Monday, December 6th @ 8am Pacific

Supply chain disruptions have circled the globe. In this webinar, we will dive deeper into what’s going on in supply chain in Europe, how Brexit has impacted the supply chain, what trends we should pay attention to in Europe (and how it will affect the rest of the world) and strategies for success post-COVID. Our speaker is an expert in logistics, automation and healthcare/ pharmaceutical manufacturing industries and so we’ll gain insights into these topics as well.

About the Speaker

Patrick Daly is the founder and Managing Director of Alba Consulting, a business consultancy focused on international supply chain, logistics, and operations based in Dublin, Ireland. Patrick is an accomplished consultant, speaker, trainer, author and broadcaster and has been active in the logistics sector for over 25 years. He works with many top Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing, distribution, and logistics services in Europe, Asia. and the Americas, helping them achieve dramatic improvements in their supply chain capabilities and performance through supply chain excellence. Patrick has worked with clients all over the world including China, India, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Egypt, UAE, United States, UK, Spain, Croatia, and others.

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Talent in the Supply Chain Webinar with zoom codes – November 17th

November 8, 2021 3:42 pm Published by apicsie Comments Off

Emerging with Supply Chain Strength Webinar

Talent in the Supply Chain

Wednesday, November 17th @ 4pm PST

There is a war on talent in the supply chain. Vast labor shortages in the end-to-end supply chain from ports, trucking, warehousing, manufacturing, technology and much more is constraining sales growth. These are unprecedented times when retaining, developing and attracting talent will mean the difference between thriving and dying. What are the most successful companies doing to successfully navigate the shortage of talent? Our expert panel of manufacturing and supply chain experts will discuss the current state of talent, what our best clients are doing differently and will discuss and debate strategies to thrive in the rebound as it appears to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to grow and scale if you are successful with talent.

Times:
11pm Europe UTC/GMT
4pm US Pacific/ 7pm US Eastern
9am Australia AEST (November 18th)
Duration: 1 hour

About the Speakers
The panel includes expert supply chain thought leaders of The Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC). Together, we represent over 140 years of consulting experience supplementing over 150 years of management experience in Supply Chain, Operations, IT, Logistics, Sustainability, and other areas. This international group includes: Lisa Anderson (California, USA), Evan Bulmer (South Australia, AU), Diane Garcia (Oregon, USA), David Ogilvie (Queensland, AU), Karen Wilson-Starks (Colorado, USA).

The Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC) is the premier association for independent consulting professionals who subscribe to an industry code of ethics and provide significant consulting results among their clients. Founded by Million Dollar Consulting guru Alan Weiss in 2003, SAC offers a series of in-person and online programs to help consultants share best practices and learn from industry experts and thought leaders in the business world. SAC today has members in 40 countries around the world.

Join zoom meeting:

Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
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Passcode: 053275

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Or join by phone:
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Webinar ID: 882 1577 3572
Passcode: 053275
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ASCM/ APICS Inland Empire Chapter President on FOX Live Now about Supply Chain Challenges & Solutions

November 6, 2021 12:23 am Published by apicsie Comments Off

ASCM-IE Chapter President
on FOX Live Now
on Supply Chain Challenges

Join Us to Learn How to Better Navigate & Succeed During These Challenging Times…….

Join our monthly webinars in our Emerging with Supply Chain Strength webinar series
Stay tuned and check our website as we’ll be rolling out CPIM, CSCP and CLTD classes shortly
We are also going to be rolling out interactive sessions to discuss timely topics in early 2022
And we will schedule an in-person event soon as well