October 22 PDM - Integrating Lean, TOC, Six Sigma and ERP; Tying Them Together

Please join us for our upcoming Professional Development Meeting on Wednesday, September 22, at the Coast Bellevue Hotel featuring Russ Field.

Program Description

Businesses "leaning out" their processes are faced with concepts that appear to be mutually exclusive, or even conflicting. Common perspectives are "do Lean, OR do Six Sigma", "... Lean OR TOC ...", and "I can't do Lean AND ERP!" This session explores strategic and tactical relationships of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints and ERP. Included is a short discussion on the impacts of a Cost Absorption costing policy on Lean Manufacturing results.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the primary targets of the noted concepts.
  • Understand the functional interrelationships of those concepts.
  • Understand the negative impacts of Cost Absorption costing policies.

Speaker Bio:

Russ Field is a business process analyst for Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Experienced in process and resource description as part of major ERP/MRP system implementations, he is a former Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) facilitator and team leader, Statistical Process Control analyst, and instructor on integrating ERP/MRP systems with Lean Manufacturing techniques.

With a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Russ has been a featured speaker at APICS chapter dinner meetings, and has presented at the BaaN World Users Group, SSA Global Users conferences and the Tecnológico de Monterrey Congress of Lean Manufacturing in Hermosillo, Mexico.

Event Details

Date and Time: Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008
5:30 PM - Registration and Networking
6:00 PM - Dinner and Speaker
Location: Coast Bellevue Hotel
625 116th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Fees: $27.00 for APICS Members
Payment Methods: Please prepay online via credit card to secure your seat.

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