September 24 PDM - Go Beyond MRP with Actively Synchronized Replenishment

We will be holding our first PDM of the fall season next Wednesday, September 24, at the Coast Bellevue Hotel. This month's event will feature Chad Smith leading a discussion on Actively Synchronized Replenishment. Chad's work was featured as the Cover Story of the July / August Edition of the APICS Magazine

Program Description

Actively Synchronized Replenishment (ASR) was developed as an answer to MRP related challenges faced by manufacturers and supply chains in the 21st Century. It is a pull based inventory and materials management system that can be applied throuighout an enterprise or supply chain. It is particularly effective in enterprises that have complex bills of material, complex material synchronization issues or that are trying to implement pull-based manufacturing scheduling and execution methodologies like Lean or Drum-Buffer-Rope.

Speaker Bio:

Chad Smith is the co-founder and Managing Partner of ConstraintsManagement Group (CMG), a services and technology company specializingin pull-based manufacturing, materials and project management systemsfor mid-range and large manufacturers. Chad has a wide range ofexperience in successfully applying pull-based systems within a diversescope of organizations and industries. Clients, past and present,include LeTourneau Technologies, Boeing, Intel, Erickson Air-Crane,Siemens, IBM, The Charles Machine Works (Ditch Witch) and Oregon FreezeDry.

Since the late 1990's Chad and his partners at CMG have been at theforefront of developing and articulating the concepts behind ActivelySynchronized Replenishment as well as building ASR compliant technology.CMG's homepage is at www.thoughtwarepeople.com.

Event Details

This event is sponsored by APICS-Puget Sound (APICS-NW). Click Here to return to the registration page.