For the 2010-11 season the Worcester Chapter has listened to your responses to our evaluations and has the following Materials Control overview to offer. Our guest speakers are some of the very best in their fields and will offer timely, current insight on today’s supply chain challenges.

We have assembled a suite of connected subjects in hierarchical order and hope that you will visit us each month as we follow a natural progression from the boardroom of S& OP to the stockroom of Lean Thinking.

When

Subject

Speaker

Brief description of the lecture

Sept 7, 2010

Executive S& OP

Bob Stahl

R.A.Stahl Company

Attleboro MA

Data Gathering, Demand Planning, Forecasting, Prod Families & Sub Families

Pre-Meeting, Exec Meeting

Oct 14, 2010

Master Scheduling

John Dougherty

Partners for Excellence

Master Scheduling MTS Products, Master Schedule MTO Products, Executing MPC Plans, Inventory Control. Major Function of MPS, Lot sizing, FAS

Nov11, 2010

MRP Concepts

Dan Marino

Marino Associates

Dependant & Independent demand, Low level coding, MRP Explosion, MRP Evolution, Bills of Material, Common Terms, Dealing with constraints

Feb 10, 2011

Capacity Planning

Ken Carlson

Oliver Wight

Importance of capacity mgmt, Planning Process, RCCP, Routings, Resource Profiles, Lead time offsets, CRP

Mar 10, 2011

Lean Concepts

Chris Grey

 Grey Research

Lean Thinking, Value Streams, Flow, Pull, Current state, Future State, Lean Progression

Apr 14, 2011

Plant Tour

TBD

TBD

May 12, 2011

Plant Tour

TBD

TBD

All of our PDM’s will be held at The Manor Restaurant 42 West Boylston Street (Rte 12) West Boylston MA.    508-835-4722

Registration and networking starts at 5:30, Dinner at 6:30 and lectures at 7:15. Members can look forward to more detailed publications in emails or postcards as the dates move nearer.