APICS The Association for Operations Management

Great Lakes District

Advancing Productivity, Innovation, and Competitive Success

 


WELCOME TO APICS Great Lakes District

 

 

CLICK HERE FOR VLW FAQ

Each year before the APICS International Conference & Expo, APICS presents the Volunteer Leadership Workshop (VLW) to provide channel partner leaders an opportunity to network with peers while gaining necessary skills and techniques to successfully manage their organizations

NEW District and Chapter Services Department Contact Information 

Who do you call if you ...

  • Have a question about your chapter's tax exempt status?
 
  • Need some tips on creating a report in My Chapter?
 
  • Want to submit a presentation for the next Volunteer Leadership Training program.
 
  • Have a question about your last chapter rebate deposit?
 

Click here for more info.

CLICK HERE FOR APICS ON-LINE "DICTIONARY"

Click here for "MY CHAPTER" information.

To Renew Your Membership or Join as a new member click       HERE

 

Sign up now for the next District Meeting on August    6 – 7,

Swan Lake Resort

5203 Plymouth - LaPorte Trail Plymouth, IN 46563  

Make your hotel reservations by calling

574-935-5680 OR     

800-582-7539   

The Great Lakes District is paying an additional $10 per room which pays for your breakfast coupon.

Sign up to attend the District Meeting by going to the following link:                District Meeting 

Signing up at this link is only to attend the meeting you need to call the hotel for your room reservations

Tentative Agenda for the District Meeting

C-BOX

The new and enhanced APICS volunteer micro-site is here! C-BOX provides shared resources and news for APICS partners to support delivery of APICS programs and services locally. Replacing the Volunteer Resources section of the APICS Web site, C-BOX features enhanced functionality such as improved searching and organization, along with new and updated content and an ongoing commitment to refresh the site with new content and capabilities

Click here to view C-Box

C-Box informational flyer

Send us your chapter highlights, special events and CLASS OFFERINGS and we will post it here for all to see.

Chapter Highlights, Special Events AND CLASS OFFERINGS IN THE DISTRICT:

CHECK OUT THE Class offerings in the Great Lakes District click here.

Chapter Board Listing

At a previous District meeting we had a request to display all the Chapter Board Members for all chapters. The reason being is so that we would increase communication between chapters officers. This will also allow (as an example) for a treasurer of one chapter (or any of the board members) to communicate with another officer on another chapter board. The list is attached for your use.

Update: A few Chapter officers have asked that we not display some of the personal information on this listing. Due to this all info was removed except the name of Chapter, the name of the board member, the office held and an email listing. Anyone wishing to have their email address removed or changed to a generic listing please let me know. anthony.stencel@sbcglobal.net We hope this change will take care of the original need yet help with privacy issues.

 Click here

We need your input. Send info to anthony.stencel@sbcglobal.net

ELECTIONS FOR THE GREAT LAKES DISTRICT

It is time for the Great Lakes District to receive nominations and elect our next District Director and District Manager.     I have just recently received the necessary information and forms from HQ to allow us to begin this process. At the bottom of this announcement are the links to the District Director Candidate Nomination Application and the District Manager Candidate Nomination Application. Also the Election Procedures document. Each current Chapter President is on the Nominating and Election Committee.  

All interested parties for either position must complete the appropriate personal data form and can also attached an additional 1 page write-up on themselves and what they feel they would bring to the position. These should be forwarded to me, as the committee chairperson, so that I can distribute them to all committee members. I would like to have all applications no later than August 6th, so we can begin reviewing them. Once we review the applications, I will ask the committee to send me there specific questions for the candidates. I will forward a list of questions to each candidate and supply their answers to the entire committee. This will ensure that we all have the same information to work with. My goal is to wrap up the election by the end of August as our final decision for District Director and District Manager is due to APICS by September 15, 2010. This will give us plenty of time to make a decision on these important positions.

We will be conducting this election via email and possibly a district conference call. This has been done in the past and has worked well. Please feel free to contact me you have any questions. I will be on vacation from July 16 – July 28 but will try to answer email at least once a day during this period.  

Best Regards,

Jeff Taft        taft@blackmer.com

 Great Lakes District Election Committee Chairperson

LINKS: Nominating Guidlines

District Director Application

District Manager Application

 

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District Speaker List

Many of you have requested that we start a District Speaker List. We hope that the info on the attachment helps you. When using the list if you find that speakers you have used are not on the list please share them with us. Simply email your listing to me and I will add your speakers to the list for others to  use. Hope this is just the start of a fantastic resource. Thanks for your help. Tony Stencel

SPEAKERS LIST