The Production Line APICS GREAT LAKES DISTRICT CENTRAL INDIANA CHAPTER • VOLUME XXVII • NUMBER 5 • DECEMBER 2011 DECEMBER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MEETING An Evening with Gerry Dick Joint meeting with the Indiana Alliance of Professional Societies (IAPS) Gerry Dick is president and managing editor of Ventures, Mr. Dick was Senior Vice President of the Grow Indiana Media Ventures, a media company Indianapolis Economic Development Corporation, created to deliver Indiana business news and where he was responsible for a broad range of information through multiple media sources. managerial and operational initiatives, including Grow Indiana Media Ventures' properties include marketing, communications, advertising and media "Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick," relations. Mr. Dick's broadcast news background InsideIndianaBusiness.com, Inside INdiana Business includes 14 years as a principal reporter and field Radio, The INside Edge daily e-newsletter, the anchor at WRTV (ABC) in Indianapolis. He has also downloadable Inside INdiana Business News Ticker, held reporter and anchor positions at television and "Inside Arizona Business with Dana Cooper." Mr. stations in Fort Wayne and Terre Haute. Dick formed the company in 2000 with technology entrepreneur and visionary Scott Jones. Mr. Dick is a native Hoosier, born and raised in the Vermillion County community of Clinton, and Recognized across the state as an Indiana business is a graduate of Indiana State University. He is a leader, he also appears weekly on WTHR Channel vice president at the Indiana Sports Corporation, 13 (NBC, Indianapolis) as an Eyewitness News a member of the board of directors at Junior business analyst. Achievement of Central Indiana, the Better Business Bureau of Central Indiana, the Indianapolis Prior to the creation of Grow Indiana Media Convention and Visitors Association and the Dean's Advisory Council at the Indiana University School PDM MEETING INFORMATION of Informatics. He also serves as a member of Date/Time Thursday, DECEMBER 8th, 2011 the Youthlinks Indiana executive committee, and 5:30 pm Registration—Networking; 6:00 pm Dinner contributes his talents to the Rose-Hulman Institute 7:00 pm Presentation Location The Mansion at Oak Hill of Technology, the NCAA Hall of Champions and the 5801 E 116th Street, Carmel, IN 46033 Indiana Council for Economic Education. Pricing $20 Students; $30 Members; $40 Non-members Registration Register online at www.apics-cind.org Please register by Monday 12/5/2011 SIGN-UP NOW The Association for Operations Management http://www.apics-cind.org/events/100_538001.aspx?PROG=PDMG Central Indiana Chapter 2 THE PRODUCTION LINE • DECEMBER 2011 PRESIDENT’SCORNER BY CHIP HUNTER, CHAPTER PRESIDENT CHRISTMAS TIME is LOGISTICS TIME! Well it is that time of year again, like Portions of the above article were obtained from the World it or not, for all the year end madness Wide Web and is from ABCNEWS’ Robert Krulwich. The Poetic leading up to CHRISTMAS! It all Licensing was shamelessly administered by Charles Hunter: seems to begin with BLACK FRIDAY President APICS – Central Indiana Chapter. and this year retail businesses opened even earlier bordering on infringement The other logistics feat in our house this time of year is of Thanksgiving celebrations. I can honestly say this is the orchestrated by my wife. The logistics revolve around satisfying first time I have ever had to venture out to shop at this time our customer base for Christmas. of year as it was generally my wife’s deal. This year though it was my turn, wonder if the standing in line for hours on end in An important part of the Christmas operation starts in 40 degree weather had anything to do with this? So as I sat November in the development of the “pick list” (aka, wish list). huddled on the sidewalk watching the football game on my Demand is analyzed: The catalogues of various third party phone in a makeshift blanket tent I began to wonder about the suppliers are placed in front of our two biggest customers. logistics behind Christmas in general. When they have finished marking each and every toy they like in all the brochures they can find in the house, the total In my house there are two feats of Logistics prowess that Demand is known. As always, Demand is higher than Supply occur. One being, SANTA. Santa Claus visits homes all (budget), but somehow these two customers rarely complain over the world on Christmas Eve, but when you consider how when their order is delivered on Christmas Morning, even if not many homes there are, how little time he has, and how much 100% complete. inventory & WIP he has to carry – how in the heck does he do it? Maybe he has an edge. Maybe he works from a magic Traditionally, no Christmas shopping began until after body of knowledge. Or maybe he also carries a CPIM or Thanksgiving. As consumers we were convinced that the CSCP Certification? best deals only occur starting on Black Friday…is that really true? However, due to the capacity constraints and logistical Well, if the 132 million homes are evenly distributed around challenges of securing all of the deals at various brick and the surface of the Earth, (Do you hear what I hear? That’s right; mortar stores our supply chain has evolved to capitalize more DRP & Logistics!), and if Santa heads west in a kind of random, on ecommerce. Fulfillment of Christmas demand now has zigzag pattern across 24 time zones — constantly staying in shifted away from a shopping marathon in crowded stores to darkness as much as he can — he’d cover about 175 million an outsourced model managed by companies like Amazon and land miles. (Critical Path and Theory of Constraints?) The UPS. Why brave the crowds and cold for the same deal for an oceans don’t count, since fish don’t get gifts. He would have item that will arrive on my door in plenty of time. The internet; about 31 hours to do it. That’s 1,178 homes per second. it’s easy, fast, and if you do it in time, there is a relatively low Every second he must hit 1,178 homes. More Capacity risk that the goods are not delivered on time. With doing that planning, add in some S.M.A.R.T. metrics, a dash of Detailed we fuel the Logistics Frenzy that is the Holiday Season. Scheduling and Planning… So when Santa arrives at each home, he has a scant 8/100,000 of a second to park the Moving on, don’t forget to sign up for the last PDM of the sleigh, heave himself down the chimney, fill the stockings, take 2011, December 8th. Again this year we will have a joint IAPS care of the tree, eat the cookies, drink the milk, head back up event as “A night with Gerry Dick”. This is our annual event the chimney and get back on the sled. where Gerry will discuss a number of topics as they relate to the health of the Indiana economy. Sign up early as this PDM Some very Lean Six Sigma stuff going on here….Very lean always fills up quickly! indeed. Don’t forget to join our social networks on Linked In (APICS- And the scene repeats itself every second. And Santa wouldn’t CIND), and Twitter (@apics_cind). be Santa if he wasn’t carrying a huge sack of toys. If each child gets one toy, averaging 2 pounds each, that must be multiplied Finally, the tank is full and the motor is running so let’s get by 330 million children. going. The answer to the initial question of NOW WHAT comes from you the chapter membership, we’re waiting to hear Remember, this guy is working with a 364 day lead time, his from you. By the way, this is not really the boards chapter but promise date has an absolute zero tolerance, and by design in fact YOUR chapter. he’s working with only 1 inventory turn per year. Keep the feedback coming….you can send your thoughts and So, the final question is: Are we dealing here with something concerns to [email protected], execpresident@apics- from the familiar physical universe? Maybe, Maybe not. cind.org, or any other Board member of your choice (apics- However, I would further suspect we’re dealing with someone cind.org/board). who’s not only very special, but has other special powers to do his job. “APICS – Body of Knowledge” Powers that is. Cheer, Charles (Chip) Hunter [email protected] 3 THE PRODUCTION LINE • DECEMBER 2011Crucial Information for CSCP Candidates Crucial InformationJan Borchert, for CPIM, CSCP CSCP Candidate s Jan Borchert,VP of Education CPIM, CSCP VP of Education If you have been studying the 2011 CSCP Review course, either independently or through an Instructor- Led Class your window of opportunity to take the 2011 version of the CSCP Exam is soon coming to an end.If you Significant have been revisions studying havethe 2011 been CSCP made Review to CSCP course, starting either with independently the 2012 version. or through Therefore an ,Instructor the 2011 - versionLed Class of your the examwindow will of be opportunity available through to take only the 2011a portion version of 2012. of the SeeCSCP the Exam table is belowsoon coming for details. to an end. Significant revisions have been made to CSCP starting with the 2012 version. Therefore, the 2011 version of the exam will be available2011- 2012through Computer only a portion Based of 2012. Testing See the table below for details. Exam Window Reservations Open Type of Exam December 3, 2011-January 14,2011 2012- 2012October Computer 19, 2011 Based Testing2011 ONLY April 7, 2012Exam – May Window 19, 2012 FebruaryReservations 7, 2012 Open 2011 ORType 2012.