New Categories for APICS '97 Educational Sessions

To make it easy for APICS '97 attendees to select educational sessions best suited to their individual needs, the educational sessions have been categorized into six presentation styles:

• Basic Concepts — addressing fundamental resource management principles
• Case Studies — illustrating real-world examples of best practices from concept to implementation
• Life Skills — offering solutions to professional and personal life challenges
• Strategies — exploring how to develop, implement and evaluate strategic initiatives in an organization
• Techniques and Technologies — examining how to apply specific methodologies and tools to improve processes
• Workshops — making attendees active participants in the simulation of a theory.

The session Successful Experiences and Future Plans from Leading-Edge Companies, for example, falls in the Case Studies category. Representatives from companies including AlliedSignal, Eastman Kodak and Mars-ISI will take part in a panel discussion focusing on how, during the past two decades, several companies answered the Pacific Rim competitive challenge, made major paradigm shifts in their business processes and took company performance to substantially higher levels.

A representative Techniques and Technologies session is The Ultimate Customer/Supplier Partnership, where the executive director of the education and research center of a well-known manufacturer of sound equipment will discuss the benefits and implementation methods of JIT II, a new philosophy that puts material planners and buyers in their customers' companies — making decisions and participating on teams. The session speaker will cite examples from major companies including IBM, Intel and Honeywell, which together have more than 200 JIT II suppliers.

Lessons in Building Service Excellence serves as a representative session in the Life Skills category. The presentation will provide a blueprint for service excellence by identifying priority requirements to achieve the ultimate customer service level. The speaker will discuss how successful companies are ensuring long-term customer growth, support and satisfaction by trading in old habits, breaking paradigms and rethinking required service levels.

APICS Bookstore Has It All

Always one of the highlights of an APICS conference, the APICS Bookstore will offer all theme items from the APICS Educational Materials Catalog, including certification materials, books on the theory of constraints, APICS best-sellers, many new releases and titles relevant to this year's conference theme. In particular, the bookstore will carry the instructor and participant workbooks for the newest Certified in Production and Inventory Management module, "Basics of Supply Chain Management," and Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt's, latest book "Critical Chain."

The bookstore at APICS '97 also offers conference and general APICS souvenirs, including APICS '97 T-shirts ($12) and sweatshirts ($22-$24). All of these items can be ordered before the conference. To order these items, call APICS Customer Service to request a 1997 New Offerings Catalog (item #01043).

APICS '97 at a Glance A glance at the newly published 1997 APICS International Conference and Exhibition program brochure finds many highlights for conference attendees: a new conference venue for APICS — Washington, D.C. more than 170 educational sessions — with an unprecedented number taught by leading industry practitioners and experts a sold out Exhibition Hall filled with more than 180 exhibitors general session speakers never before featured at an APICS event (e.g., corporate guru Tom Peters and media magnate Sam Donaldson) an evening with Theory of Constraints expert Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Ph.D. roundtable discussions on key SIG topics more titles than ever in the APICS bookstore an Internet Pavilion in the Exhibition Hall an evening tour of Federal Express tutorials, pre-conference workshops, networking opportunities, and more. unveiling of a new Service SIG For a copy of the APICS '97 program brochure (item #04037), call APICS Customer Service.

For more information about APICS '97, call APICS Customer Service at (800) 444-APICS or (703) 237-8344 and request a copy of 1997 Conference Program Brochure (item #04066).

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