Welcome to the Southern Willamette Valley Chapter of
APICS - The Association for Operations Management
Our Mission is to provide the tools, training, and environment for operations management practitioners in the Southern Willamette Valley to grow and succeed. We will deliver educational opportunities through APICS classes, seminars, and workshops; growth and camaraderie through membership and participation in chapter activities, certification testing and professional interaction, and heightened awareness of our role as providers of operation management expertise and training through a marketing plan. Through these conduits we will enhance the financial stability of our chapter.

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Greetings:

Well as I write this the calendar says spring time with summer just a week away and it is raining cats and dogs and 55 degrees. For the chapter this is the beginning of a summer break from classes and Professional Development Meetings. As our calendar shows on the website the next planned event is scheduled for September. Classes will restart and our first Professional Development Meeting of the year has been scheduled and confirmed. Please check out what is happening next. Even with the break scheduled for the summer, board members will still be accessible for questions discussions postings on the website for jobs and resume’s. We will continue to update the website on a monthly basis with adding classes for the next year, completing the calendar for workshops, plant tours and PDM’s.

The Southern Willamette Valley Chapter continues to grow with its offerings of CPIM classes, CSCP classes and other Operations Management workshops and Professional Development Meetings, but we are always looking for input into our programs of what professionals and businesses are looking for in our area. We continue to focus on what members and non-members are looking to increase specific knowledge base in. To those of you that have offered input into the education and development programs, Thanks. To those who haven’t taken the time please call or e-mail Nancy Miller our Director of Programs, or myself. We would love to assist you in creating a specific workshop or professional development meeting.

The boards of directors of the chapter are always looking for ways to provide a membership advantage for members of APICS at the local level. Our members have free access to one chapter professional development meeting each calendar year, there is a discount of $80.00 per each CPIM class that is offered. This can equal to $240.00 per calendar year savings, which could mean that your membership of $200.00 per year is free when taking the educational classes. The chapter is working towards offering other types of educational events that the membership would have access too at a discount to provide value to their membership.

Ed Barth, CPIM