PDM -Topic: Top Management Night- Benchmarking

TOP MANAGEMENT NIGHT 2010

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Salvatore’s Italian Gardens

Venetian Room

6461 Transit Road, Depew, NY 14043

5:00-6:15 pm...Registration, Cash Bar

& Networking

6:15-7:30 pm....Dinner

7:30-8:30 pm....Program

Members/Guests: $45

Students: $35

Menu:

Minestrone Soup

Angel Hair Pasta Al Filetta

Caesar Salad

Combination Plate: Chateaubriand & Chicken Francaise

Twice Baked Potato

Glazed Carrots

Brownie with Ice Cream & Chocolate Sauce

Make reservations early; seats are limited!

Companies--Reserve tables of 10, prepaid.

For reservations, log on to www.apics-buffalo.com

or call APICS at PPM OffiCenter,

(716) 648-0972 or Fax (716) 646-1599

Advance Payment Requested, but payment by cash

or check at the door is acceptable.

Send Payment to:

APICS-Buffalo Chapter

PO Box 888 �� Hamburg, NY 14075-0888

* Cancellations and No-Shows

after March 12 will be billed at full cost.

Substitutions are acceptable.

Benchmarking Best Practices

This year, the APICS Top Management Night dinner on Tuesday, March 16 will honor the best of the WNY manufacturing community. We have invited companies  to participate earlier that day in a four- hour benchmarking workshop facilitated by Dr. Jack Cook. Companies will come together to share their own methods of  Performance measurement in the following areas: Inventory; Customer Service; Production; Supplier Performance; and Process Improvements. The results of this

workshop will then be shared by Dr. Cook during our dinner presentation.

A number of companies have been targeted and specifically invited to participate. If you would like for your company to be involved, contact Joost Vles, CSCP, APICS VP, Office: (716) 805-2401, Cell: (716) 601-5040 or Email: jvles@moog.com.

Our goal at the end of the workshop is to have the participants agree on which measurements are the "best" in each category, then at the dinner that evening, Dr. Cook will present the results of the workshop. There, he will discuss what was learned sharing the "best" performance measurements in each category with the audience. We expect this format to stimulate thought and drive discussion and have everyone walking away from the session with a new benchmarking technique and a new approach to how they do things.

Dr. Jack Cook, CPIM, CSCP, CSQE is a professor, speaker, author, and consultant. He is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Systems at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). His areas of expertise include Supply Chain Management, Lean Thinking, Information Systems, Operations Management and Electronic Commerce. Jack's extensive experience teaching and training over the last two decades includes over one hundred conference presentations and numerous journal articles. He has an entertaining and engaging approach and is known for bringing theories to life, resulting in him being honored five teaching

awards. Dr. Cook is a Certified Fellow in Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM), Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) as well as a Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE). He is a CPIM and CSCP certification instructor, and has developed and delivered many seminars and on-site training programs. In addition to extensively consulting and training Lean Six Sigma Green and Black Belts, Dr. Cook developed a Lean Six Sigma x-Belt Certification program specifically designed for non-manufacturers. His education includes a Ph.D. in Business Administration, an MS in Computer Science, an MBA, an MA in Mathematics, and a BS in Computer Science.