APICS-OC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MEETING

September Professional Development Meeting
“Integrated Business Management
Finding the DIAMOND in the Rough”
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Presented by John F. Proud

PDM

LOCATION:

Double Tree Club Hotel

ADDRESS:

7 Hutton Centre Drive,
Santa Ana, CA 92707

NETWORKING:
DINNER:
PRESENTATION:

5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
6:30 to 7:15 p.m.
7:15 to 8:30 p.m.

COST:

$25 Members
$30 Non-members
$15 Students

AT THE DOOR:

$30 Members
$35 Non-members
$20 Students

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Companies have for a long time struggled with leadership planning as well as sales and production planning at the detailed level. The leadership team generally works hard to set the direction for the company. However, many times this direction is not communicated well enough to the people within the company that have the responsibility to execute the plans in order to move the company in the desired direction.

Integrated business management is a set of processes that ensure that the leadership’s direction is communicated and executed. The operative word in the last sentence is integrated. In order for the leadership direction to be executed, there must be communication from top to bottom, side to side, and bottom to top. This is why the DIAMOND is so important. If the DIAMOND is lost (another way of saying not implemented), the direction set by the leadership team drops into a “black hole.” This presentation looks at the elements of the DIAMOND and the integration of these elements.

The DIAMOND is customer focused, drives the delivery of the business plan, ensures that plans are integrated and realistic, creates the company game plan, welcomes and anticipates external change, drives internal change through continuous improvement, and deploys the strategic plan. Alignment of the DIAMOND is all about customers needing products, products that have demand plans, demand plans that have supply plans, operational plans that have financial plans, results with expectations, resources with needs, and desires with capabilities. A company and business can have all this if it implements the DIAMOND at a Class A level.

John F. Proud is a Principal of Oliver Wight Americas, Inc. where he consults with a variety of companies and leads courses on master scheduling and integrated demand-driven supply chain management. John is the author of the first definitive book on master scheduling — Master Scheduling: A Practical Guide to Competitive Manufacturing. Additionally, John has written numerous articles over the years regarding manufacturing and manufacturing support. He is a contributing author to the Oliver Wight Proven Path and ABCD Checklist for Operational Excellence.

John is a past president of the Orange County chapter of APICS, past vice-president of Orange County Programs, past member of the APICS committee that writes the CPIM examinations, and past International APICS Conference chairperson. John is lifetime certified in production and inventory management at the fellow level..