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APICS
Southern Nevada Chapter
The Association for Operations
Management
Spring 2009
Advancing Productivity,
Innovation, and Competitive Success
Professional Development Meeting/Plant Tour
Tuesday, April 21st,
2009
At Aristocrat Technologies
3300 Birtcher Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89118

Itinerary
6:45 PM Registration
7:00 PM Plant Tour
Cost: Associate
Member: $10 Member: $10
Non-Member:
$15 Student: $10
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A
Letter From the President, Lori Wilson
GET LEAN, GET GREEN IN 2009
Becoming acutely aware
of all of your actions and how those actions affect others is a step
toward mindfulness. This entails becoming free of your limiting
beliefs. Those old standards, unless continually modified or
improved, keep you from becoming more of who you are. Striving for
excellence in action is paramount to becoming a successful and
productive human being.
Lean models this concept on a company and employee team
level. It breaks down your current processes into the “not so
obvious”. Efficient and effective are two of many end results that
are part of practicing lean tools. Change is imminent for all of us
and learning to let go of resistance and embrace change is an
attribute that goes a long way both personally and professionally.
It allows you to become unstuck. What are your daily habits and how
do you show up in the world?
APICS has many avenues for education. Complacency is
the demise of any business in today’s fast-paced world. A football
game is not won by one individual, but by many, who come together
with their differences and highly honed skills. Each member
practices as a team continually in order to win.
You are meant to be magnanimous. Don’t settle for less
than who you want to become. Time is a limited resource, but our
minds are endless. Take time to broaden your thinking. There are
so many attributes and values you can instill in yourself. By
becoming a model or mentor for others, you will create the circle of
excellence.
Execute
personally, win globally.
Sincerely,
Lori Wilson
President
APICS Southern
Nevada Chapter

APICS Vocabulary for
Spring 2009
Par level–
In service operations, the maximum supply volume based on
established quotas from previous use for a particular supply item,
in a particular department, for a specified time period.
Gate review –
The formal review
process between the major phases of a new product introduction
effort. The determination to continue or to stop the project is
formally made at each review point or gate.
Blend off–
In process industries,
the rework of material by introducing a small percentage into
another run of the same product.
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Welcome To Our New Members
A big APICS welcome to the following
members that have joined our chapter in recent months:
Kent Linford
John Lynch Dan Ward
John Dauernheim
William Greene
Kevin Picinich
Melissa Uptain
Looking forward to seeing you at
upcoming events!
Global
Sourcing Career Advice Articles
APICS Southern Nevada will be
presenting a series of five articles by Gary Capone, President of
the Blue Ridge Chapter of APICS and Vice President of Palladian
International, an executive recruiting firm specializing in
manufacturing, distribution and defense industries.
The first article will be presented
below and subsequent articles will be released via separate e-mail.
Resume Writing for Sourcing Careers
By Gary W. Capone
Resume
writing for supply chain professionals, particularly in sourcing
careers, requires addressing specific challenges and goals that are
important to the target employer. By highlighting these topics in
your resume, you can standout from your competition.
Sourcing careers manage the identification of suppliers, the
purchasing of materials, and the logistics of purchased materials
and components. In our modern global economy, sourcing provides
the foundation of many companies. More than any other function,
sourcing can change the financial condition and competitiveness of a
company quickly.
A
number of companies have capitalized on their sourcing expertise to
build powerful competitive advantages over their competition. Wal-mart
and Dell are both known for the efficiency of their supply chain
operations. Slight improvements to the sourcing function can
dramatically affect the bottom line performance of a company.
The
significance of sourcing roles to the success of an organization
makes finding exceptional talent in the sourcing field a critical
component of a company's success. During the hiring process, most
companies will have specific goals and expectations for the
position. To be successful, a job seeker needs to demonstrate an
ability to make an impact on these specific goals.
Many
job seekers find it difficult to identify the goals of the company
and the hiring manager. You may be able to research and determine
the priorities, but often this won't be possible. Instead, you need
to address the major challenges that are most likely to be
priorities based on the industry and company.
There
are a number challenges that are likely to be important within the
materials field, including:
·
Vendor
Identification
·
Vendor
Qualification
·
Quality Monitoring
·
Legal
and Contract Concerns
·
Transportation
·
Customs
·
Scheduling
·
Inventory
·
Supply
Interruptions
·
Issues
With Political or Economic Instability
This
is a partial list but can give you a starting point for marketing
your background. On your resume, you should mention a variety to
challenges and goals. It is important to include more than just a
list of keywords. Provide details of your experience and
accomplishments for each area of expertise. You may choose to
emphasize a selection of skills, but try to mention most of them in
your resume.
One
way to highlight your sourcing skills is to start your resume with
an executive summary. The executive summary should include two or
three of your most significant accomplishments. This will
draw attention to your strongest skills and
accomplishments, highlighting a few key elements of your experience.
You can then work the remaining elements you want to mention into
your resume under your work experience section.
If you
show significant experience in the sourcing arena, and mention the
key topics that a hiring manager is seeking, you are likely to get a
phone screen. You do not need to guess the top priority of the
hiring manager and emphasize this in your executive summary. As
long as you mention the topic and show significant sourcing
expertise, you should generate sufficient interest to motivate the
hiring manager to want to learn more. If you do not focus on a
topic critical to the hiring manager, the phone screen will usually
explore this topic in detail.
The
list of competencies above omits one very common topic. In fact, it
is by far the most common topic of accomplishment, and a critical
element you need to cover in your resume. The omitted element is
your experience with reducing costs. Reducing raw material and
transportation costs are one of the biggest opportunities most
companies have. Cost reductions through better sourcing can offer
the best ROI. An investment of time and some travel costs for a
sourcing professional can often yield millions of dollars in
savings.
There's an important reason why I omitted cost reductions from the
list above. The reduction of cost is the result of an activity. It
is not the core activity. For example, picture a sourcing
professional that includes this accomplishment on his resume:
“reduced the purchasing costs of a key raw material by $3 million.”
This is a good accomplishment but doesn't say anything about how the
individual achieved this result. Another candidate, with a similar
background, lists the same accomplishment, but with additional key
details: “Identified two dozen new potential vendors for a key raw
material. Assessed and qualified three to be suppliers. Negotiated
international contracts with two of these sources, resulting in $2
million in savings from lower purchase costs and $1 million in
transportation savings.”
These
could be the same accomplishment, but the second presentation is
much more specific and makes a much stronger impact. If the hiring
manager is focused on identifying new sources, assessing potential
sources or reducing transportation costs, this accomplishment should
peak their interest.
Show
what you did with the results you achieved. When we assessed resumes
in our
resume benchmarking survey, we found nearly half of the resumes
didn't list any accomplishments. Many of the resumes that did list
accomplishments, only included cost savings numbers –
accomplishments similar to the first example provided above. If you
give a detailed presentation of what you did, how you did it and
what the results were, your resume will standout from the vast
majority of your competition and your chances of landing an
interview will be much higher.
About the Author
Gary Capone is Vice
President of Palladian International, an executive recruiting firm
specializing in manufacturing, distribution and defense industries.
Palladian also provides career coaching services to job seekers,
including resume writing and interview coaching. Gary serves as the
President of the Blue Ridge Chapter of APICS. Learn more about
Palladian at
www.palladiancr.com
APICS Student Chapter at UNLV
Last fall, the University of Nevada – Las
Vegas founded an APICS Student Chapter. Officers Vincent Wong,
Scott Kinley and Meng Li Chen oversee the student chapter with
support from Professor K.C. Tan and APICS parent chapter
representative Darlene Morris.

Contact
Info
Lori Wilson,
Chapter President
Darlene Morris,
Executive VP
(702) 336-3825
Wilsonkoi@aol.com
(614) 946-4595 Darlene.Morris@aristocrat-inc.com
Arnie Johnson, VP Education
Dan Ward, VP of Marketing
(702) 896-3485 arniejohnson@cox.net
(702)
300-3214
dward@manpowerlv.com
Charles van
de Putte, VP Membership Diana Lewis, Director
of Membership
(702) 352-1814 c_van_de_putte@hotmail.com
(702) 302-8354
rrxing@gmail.com
Jane Sia, VP
Programs Gary Watson,
Director of Programs
(702)
798-5646 Siajane@yahoo.com
(702) 498-1819
gary.watson@resources-usa.com
Joan Clark,
VP Communications
Tara Eggington, VP Finance
(702) 564-2544
x273
Joan.Clark@TIMET.com (702)
402-1562
TEggington@nvenergy.com
Barry
Solomon, Director At Large Anne Proia,
Director At Large
(702)
564-7846 solombar@cox.net (702)
290-9225 anne.proia@gmail.com
Chris Angi,
Past President
(702) 459-1696 christopherangi@yahoo.com
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our website at
http://www.apicssnv.org/!
APICS
The
Educational Society
for Resource
Management
Southern Nevada
Chapter
P.O. Box 95951
Las Vegas, NV
89193-5951

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Materials Manager
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Calendar of Events
Date Activity
Location
4/21 Professional Development
Meeting/Plant Tour
3300 Birtcher Drive Aristocrat
Technologies Las
Vegas, NV
4/29
Board Meeting
Timet
5/19 Professional Development
Meeting TBD
Topic: Lean Workshop
6/25 Professional Development
Meeting/Plant Tour
Clear Water
Paper North
Las Vegas, NV
8/7-8/8 Southwest District
Meeting Tucson,
AZ
10/4-10/6 2009
APICS International Conference and
Expo Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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