Our District Meeting will be held on June 6 and 7 in Raleigh. Post your questions here and we will try our best to have answers during the meeting. Even if you may not attend, you may post a question or get an answer. Deb Hansford
Here's your chance to drop a question to the District. Got a question related to your chapter? How do you do this or that? Ask away... Thanx, Kc. Kasserman
I have some questions about Fundamentals courses. We in Atlanta purchased two of these Instructor kits several years ago, and I know one of them is at least two revisions out of date. Fund of Planning, we have v 2.2 and it should be 2.4. I have not been able to find an asnwer from Customer Service about if there is an update available, or will we need to purchase a full Instructor Kit at $280?
Here are some questions that I asked of Kc a while back. Some have been partially answered, but most have not. 1. In the move to Chicago, how much did we save, Plan vs Actual? 2. Who will be the paid District Reps that are supposed to become part of the Society level Staff? What are they responsible for that District Staff does not do now? What will they do to support the local chapter, that is not being done now? Is this really a win-win for the District and Chapter, or are we trying to leverage them out of business? 3. When will the new materials be available to chapters? Procurement and Finance courses? Are the Due dates for these changed, if so what are the new due dates. 4. Will the chapter/District ever see the full Job Task Analysis done for the CPIM courseware? 5. What amount has APICS Society projected either gain or loss of membership due to increase of dues in 2008? Does this agree with the same measures that chapters will be held to for CMS, C-BAR (planned increase vs planned decrease)? 6. Are we looking for any more organizations that we will associating with, at no additional cost to the member, similar to Aberdeen? Several students asked in CSCP classes about APICS getting together with the Supply Chain Council, as an additional information source, like Aberdeen? ISM? CSCMP? WERC? IIE?
1. What are the pros for requiring candidates for chair-elect and secretary-treasurer to have served on the board within the past five years? The motion passed so some thought this was a good idea. 2. What is APICS HQ doing to market APICS certification programs to employers? I never did find that Fortune magazine article.
Fundamentals courseware question, you will have your answer by Raleigh. I am chasing it currently.
As for your additional questions, data is going to be shared at the President't Forum (with hard-copy posted on the district site afterwards for all). Goal here is to ensure all of the responses are shared with everyone. Including some show-n-tell! :)
Appreciate the questions. We will be reviewing the recently passed motions further in Raleigh as part of the DD review Friday.
The executive summary as I understand it was to ensure that the Leadership Team had prior APICS BOD experience so they had an understanding of what it took to be a part of the BOD versus walking into the elected Leadership positions with no APICS BOD experience given it is a 1-year term.
Your 2nd question: we have a full session by Jane Pearson (APICS Marketing). She will sharing tools for marketing by chapters, but also sharing what APICS is doing as well. We will be posting her presentation on the district site for all as well. As information, the Fortune magazine article did not come to fruition, our connection at APICS working that piece left APICS.
As we at the chapter level get ready to start our budget process for the upcoming FY starting July 1st, I am trying to get information about any updates to educational materials and conferences / seminars, like the Lean TTT hald in Chicago, that we should be budgeting for. The Train the Trainer for the new Lean course, held this week at APICS in Chicago, was a surprise to us, for the amount of money that would be required to attend for hotels and food, etc in Chicago. Also the pricing of materials was considerably higher than in the past for that course, both for Student and Instructor materials.
I would request that APICS give us some idea of costs to be planned for during the upcoming FY, for new Instructor materials for CSCP, planned for a major update release in Dec 2008 for use in 2009 exams. Will this upgrade price be similar to previous pricing for CSCP upgrades.
We need to know pricing for new courseware, both Instructor and Student materials, for any new courses being added to our BOK in the next year. Will there be a TtT similar to the Lean class in June 2008, that the chapters will need to plan in their budgets. I know that the CPIM material is being worked on currently to see what can/should be/ or will be updated in the next one to two years. AS the details on these are available, it would be nice for APICS to let all the chapters know what costs may be incurred to update, attend courseware review sessions, etc, as early as possible in the development cycle.
Any other material or service cost changes, especially at the chapter level, should be addressed as quickly as possible.
Many of these questions are being addressed by Jerry Kilty, our Education Director at the District. Some of the longer term questions may need additional response from Society.
I am also waiting to hear about CSCP testing dates for 2009, so we can start to plan our Education schedule for these courses. If someone is planning to offer CSCP in the 13 week format, then they will be probably starting class prior to Xmas just get done prior to the exam date, has been in mid-March. A little bit of advance planning is always more helpful.
We are trying to locate a successful Chapter-College Educational model. One of our local business managers wants to send her material management personnel to the CPIM and CSCP courses, but her company requires the course of instruction/instructors be affiliated with an accredited college. Karen Avery, Tennessee Valley Chapter
Opportunity noted. As each relationship with educational institutions (based upon state/local requirements) may be different, I have asked our Education guru (Jerry Kilty) to contact you directly to ensure we understand TN Valley's particulars clearly. He will be contacting you shortly. We look forward to assiting you. Thanx, Kc.
Chris, I believe I deleted the option to add pictures to reduce possibility of viruses since this is open to everyone and we want this to be a safe place. You should be able to add hyerlinks though if you know HTML. Is there something specific you would like to add? If it is a picture, we could put it on the Google photo album and create a hyperlink from here. Hope this helps. If not, send me an email directly and together I am sure we will find a solution that could be posted.
Just catching up from the weekend District Meeting in Raleigh. For those that could not attend - ou missed a packed weekend!
I wanted to take this opportunity to share some of the responses voiced in Raleigh to the questions posed beforehand. You can find moce (if not all) in the President's Forum presentation on the district webiste:
http://www.apicssoutheast.org/June2008.htm
Information in these slides include information on the Chicago move (under budget I happy to reprt); collaboration efforts by APICS; current update on education products schedules (hardcopy presented at meeting - softcopy to be loaded on website); review of the newly passed BOD motions; agreement of 2009 district meeting venues (including San Juan, PR for Jun 2010)...
So enjoy the read and share any feedback you may have. This blog is here for you!!
One more - I almost left out the JTA (Job/Task Analysis) question...
Certification organizations perform a Job Task Analysis (JTA) to ensure that the certification will accurately represent the skills of the profession and that the program will have recognition in the marketplace. By assessing the validity of the contents of the exam, the certifying organization ensures that the credential earned truly represents the candidate’s accomplishments.
The Job Task Analysis data and results constitute proprietary intellectual property that is only shared with the committee doing the analysis. The committee includes an independent psychometrician to verify the analysis. Therefore we cannot share the data with the chapters or districts.
As to results, the key take-away that the JTA revealed to us is that our CPIM certification modules are very closely aligned to the things that the respondents reported to us as key elements of job-related knowledge. Each committee has compared its detailed curriculum outline with the job tasks that our people perform, and there are no significant gaps.
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Here's your chance to drop a question to the District. Got a question related to your chapter? How do you do this or that? Ask away...
Thanx, Kc. Kasserman
I have some questions about Fundamentals courses. We in Atlanta purchased two of these Instructor kits several years ago, and I know one of them is at least two revisions out of date. Fund of Planning, we have v 2.2 and it should be 2.4. I have not been able to find an asnwer from Customer Service about if there is an update available, or will we need to purchase a full Instructor Kit at $280?
Here are some questions that I asked of Kc a while back. Some have been partially answered, but most have not.
1. In the move to Chicago, how much did we save, Plan vs Actual?
2. Who will be the paid District Reps that are supposed to become part of the Society level Staff? What are they responsible for that District Staff does not do now? What will they do to support the local chapter, that is not being done now? Is this really a win-win for the District and Chapter, or are we trying to leverage them out of business?
3. When will the new materials be available to chapters? Procurement and Finance courses? Are the Due dates for these changed, if so what are the new due dates.
4. Will the chapter/District ever see the full Job Task Analysis done for the CPIM courseware?
5. What amount has APICS Society projected either gain or loss of membership due to increase of dues in 2008? Does this agree with the same measures that chapters will be held to for CMS, C-BAR (planned increase vs planned decrease)?
6. Are we looking for any more organizations that we will associating with, at no additional cost to the member, similar to Aberdeen? Several students asked in CSCP classes about APICS getting together with the Supply Chain Council, as an additional information source, like Aberdeen? ISM? CSCMP? WERC? IIE?
1. What are the pros for requiring candidates for chair-elect and secretary-treasurer to have served on the board within the past five years? The motion passed so some thought this was a good idea.
2. What is APICS HQ doing to market APICS certification programs to employers? I never did find that Fortune magazine article.
Tom:
Fundamentals courseware question, you will have your answer by Raleigh. I am chasing it currently.
As for your additional questions, data is going to be shared at the President't Forum (with hard-copy posted on the district site afterwards for all). Goal here is to ensure all of the responses are shared with everyone. Including some show-n-tell! :)
Thanx, Kc.
Mary:
Appreciate the questions. We will be reviewing the recently passed motions further in Raleigh as part of the DD review Friday.
The executive summary as I understand it was to ensure that the Leadership Team had prior APICS BOD experience so they had an understanding of what it took to be a part of the BOD versus walking into the elected Leadership positions with no APICS BOD experience given it is a 1-year term.
Your 2nd question: we have a full session by Jane Pearson (APICS Marketing). She will sharing tools for marketing by chapters, but also sharing what APICS is doing as well. We will be posting her presentation on the district site for all as well.
As information, the Fortune magazine article did not come to fruition, our connection at APICS working that piece left APICS.
Thanx, Kc.
As we at the chapter level get ready to start our budget process for the upcoming FY starting July 1st, I am trying to get information about any updates to educational materials and conferences / seminars, like the Lean TTT hald in Chicago, that we should be budgeting for. The Train the Trainer for the new Lean course, held this week at APICS in Chicago, was a surprise to us, for the amount of money that would be required to attend for hotels and food, etc in Chicago. Also the pricing of materials was considerably higher than in the past for that course, both for Student and Instructor materials.
I would request that APICS give us some idea of costs to be planned for during the upcoming FY, for new Instructor materials for CSCP, planned for a major update release in Dec 2008 for use in 2009 exams. Will this upgrade price be similar to previous pricing for CSCP upgrades.
We need to know pricing for new courseware, both Instructor and Student materials, for any new courses being added to our BOK in the next year. Will there be a TtT similar to the Lean class in June 2008, that the chapters will need to plan in their budgets. I know that the CPIM material is being worked on currently to see what can/should be/ or will be updated in the next one to two years. AS the details on these are available, it would be nice for APICS to let all the chapters know what costs may be incurred to update, attend courseware review sessions, etc, as early as possible in the development cycle.
Any other material or service cost changes, especially at the chapter level, should be addressed as quickly as possible.
Many of these questions are being addressed by Jerry Kilty, our Education Director at the District. Some of the longer term questions may need additional response from Society.
I am also waiting to hear about CSCP testing dates for 2009, so we can start to plan our Education schedule for these courses. If someone is planning to offer CSCP in the 13 week format, then they will be probably starting class prior to Xmas just get done prior to the exam date, has been in mid-March. A little bit of advance planning is always more helpful.
We are trying to locate a successful Chapter-College Educational model. One of our local business managers wants to send her material management personnel to the CPIM and CSCP courses, but her company requires the course of instruction/instructors be affiliated with an accredited college. Karen Avery, Tennessee Valley Chapter
Karen:
Opportunity noted. As each relationship with educational institutions (based upon state/local requirements) may be different, I have asked our Education guru (Jerry Kilty) to contact you directly to ensure we understand TN Valley's particulars clearly.
He will be contacting you shortly. We look forward to assiting you.
Thanx, Kc.
Deb,
How can we post things to the blog besides comment's?
Chris,
I believe I deleted the option to add pictures to reduce possibility of viruses since this is open to everyone and we want this to be a safe place. You should be able to add hyerlinks though if you know HTML. Is there something specific you would like to add? If it is a picture, we could put it on the Google photo album and create a hyperlink from here. Hope this helps. If not, send me an email directly and together I am sure we will find a solution that could be posted.
Good evening.
Just catching up from the weekend District Meeting in Raleigh. For those that could not attend - ou missed a packed weekend!
I wanted to take this opportunity to share some of the responses voiced in Raleigh to the questions posed beforehand. You can find moce (if not all) in the President's Forum presentation on the district webiste:
http://www.apicssoutheast.org/June2008.htm
Information in these slides include information on the Chicago move (under budget I happy to reprt); collaboration efforts by APICS; current update on education products schedules (hardcopy presented at meeting - softcopy to be loaded on website); review of the newly passed BOD motions; agreement of 2009 district meeting venues (including San Juan, PR for Jun 2010)...
So enjoy the read and share any feedback you may have. This blog is here for you!!
Thanx, Kc.
One more - I almost left out the JTA (Job/Task Analysis) question...
Certification organizations perform a Job Task Analysis (JTA) to ensure that the certification will accurately represent the skills of the profession and that the program will have recognition in the marketplace. By assessing the validity of the contents of the exam, the certifying organization ensures that the credential earned truly represents the candidate’s accomplishments.
The Job Task Analysis data and results constitute proprietary intellectual property that is only shared with the committee doing the analysis. The committee includes an independent psychometrician to verify the analysis. Therefore we cannot share the data with the chapters or districts.
As to results, the key take-away that the JTA revealed to us is that our CPIM certification modules are very closely aligned to the things that the respondents reported to us as key elements of job-related knowledge. Each committee has compared its detailed curriculum outline with the job tasks that our people perform, and there are no significant gaps.
I hope this sheds some light...
Thanx, Kc.
Thanks for this value able post. I have read all the things very carefully its really a helpful and effective post.
Cheers,
APICS CSCP Certification"
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