APICS Tampa Bay September 13, 2016 Professional Development Meering 

Topic:
"Aligning the Supply Chain - A Serious Game?"

APICS Tampa Bay, the leading association for supply chain and operations management, invites local supply chain, operations management, transportation and logistics professionals to our Professional Development Meeting on September 13, 2016 from 5:30 to 8:00 PM at the DoubleTree Hotel Tampa Airport Westshore, 4500 W. Cypress Street, Tampa, FL 33607.  

Research shows that misalignment is one of the buiggest issues companies face today. The result is poor execution of company strategy and an underperforming supply chain.

Breaking through departmental silos and creating supply chain awareness and is a considerable challenge. To achieve this cultural change objective, blended learning may be a most suitable approach. One where theory and practice combine with hard and soft skills in simulated real life experience.

The Fresh Connection is a serious game! Serious games keep us highly engaged in practicing behaviors and thought processes we can transfer into real life. 

Join us and explore the benefits of using serious games which provide challenging scenarios and conditions to practice and hone skills that transfer to real life situations.

Speaker: Tracy Lyn Cheetham CPIM, CSCP, SCOR-P

Tracy Cheetham is an experienced supply chain professional and educator with a background in Operations and ERP Systems in the manufacturing, service and logistics industries. She has held a broad spectrum of leadership roles, including consulting services manager for Comparex, business unit manager for Cargo Carriers LTD, national distribution manager for Amalgamated Beverage Industries and SABMiller PTY LTD.

Most recently, Tracy served as APICS Director for International Development. She is past president of SAPICS (APICS South African International Channel Partner) and APICS CPIM, CSCP and SCOR-P certified. Tracy also obtained the CDDP and PLS certifications from the Demand Driven Institute and AST&L respectively.  Her focus is primarily the facilitation of The Fresh Connection (augmented with APICS and DDI content) and SCOR-P workshops.

As CEO of ParadoxSolve, Tracy Cheetham has obtained Premier Partner status for The Fresh Connection Global Professional Challenge USA.

Agenda:

This dinner meeting includes your choice of water, iced tea and coffee, dinner rolls and a mixed green salad.  Entree choices are Beef or Chicken and Vegetable Medley.  Dessert is a choice of Cheese Cake or Chocolate Torte.

5:30-6:00 Check-In / Registration / Networking
6:00-6:10 Organizational Announcements
6:10-6:50 Dinner Service
6:50-7:00 Break / Networking
7:00-7:50 Professional Development Program
7:50-8:00 Door Prizes / Adjournment 

Registration:

By registering for this event you submit your contact information to APICS Tampa Bay who may use it to communicate with you regarding this and other events.  

APICS is the leading association for supply chain and operations management.