APICS Tampa Bay March 8, 2016 Professional Development Meering 

Topic: "SWOT - Turn it Around"

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 March 8, 2016 from 5:30 to 8:00 PM at the DoubleTree Hotel Tampa Airport Westshore, 4500 W. Cypress Street, Tampa, FL 33607.  

This will be a joint meeting with the Bay Area Manufacturer's Association. Our speaker is Craig Williams, CPIM who will be speaking on the topic of SWOT: Turn it Around.

Effective change management requires strategic planning to identify the vision and path to the future state.  Operations tactical decision-making and actions drive the enterprise from the current status to meet this future state.  At least they're supposed to.  How well this happens is directly influenced by your enterprise's strategic planning policies and procedures.

"SWOT - Turn It Around" is a presentation covering two related concepts: a brief session reviewing effective strategic planning practices and an interactive presentation on TOWS, an updated, advanced version of SWOT.  SWOT for years has been a somewhat effective brainstorming tool.  However, SWOT is a relatively unstructured approach for effective strategic planning.  

TOWS takes SWOT and "turns it around" to provide a more structured, time-phased and prioritized approach, adding strategic-to-tactical planning linkages to create an operations "pull" process.  Using TOWS effectively "pulls" your operations tactical planning and decision-making towards your future vision state.  

This interactive presentation will have a live, group TOWS exercise to model the process. The principles discussed should be applicable with almost all enterprise activities.

Speaker: Craig Williams, CPIM

Craig Williams has developed proficiency in strategic-to-tactical planning during his career in supply chain and operations management. Having worked at Honeywell Space and Strategic Systems, Smiths Industries Aerospace, General Dymanics OTS, Coca-Cola Minutemaid Division and Mastry Engine Center, Craig's expertise spans both large and small enterprises.  

Experienced with SAP, Oracle, Sage 500 and numerous Inventory Control, MRP and ERP systems, Craig has worked in roles including Inventory Control Supervisor, Production Planner, Senior Buyer, Materials Planner and Materials Manager. 

Craig is Past President of the APICS Florida West Coast Chapter, an APICS Associate Instructor and Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM). He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from the University of Florida and currently serves on the Board of Directors for APICS Florida West Coast Chapter as Executive Vice President.

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.