Save the date – 2012 APICS International Conference & Expo October 14-16, 2012 Denver, Colorado, USA

Joint Professional Development Meeting with ISM Pittsburgh
 
Our May PDM will be a joint meeting with ISM Pittsburgh.  This meeting, on Tuesday, May 15 at 5:00 PM, will be held at the Sheraton Station Square.  The program will include an Excellence in Procurement forum, led by Mark Clouse of A T Kearney.  The dinner speaker will be Michael DeWitt, Executive Director of Medrad.
 
By periodically joining with ISM Pittsburgh, we can provide our local APICS members with a valuable supplement to the APICS body of knowledge.  Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn and network with other members of Pittsburgh’s supply chain community.  Reservations can be made via the ISM website:  http://www.ism-pittsburgh.org/May-15-2012-Scholarship-Recognition-Night

Where:
Sheraton Station Square
Pittsburgh, PA
When:
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
5:00 PM
RSVP
Reservations can be made on http://www.ism-pittsburgh.org
 
Cost:
$10 for APICS student chapter members
$25 for APICS members
$35 for Visitors
Forum Program
 
Excellence in Procurement
Dinner Meeting Speaker
Michael DeWitt
Executive Director
Medrad

About ISM Pittsburgh
ISM’s mission is to serve the education, certification, communication and networking needs of purchasing professionals in the greater Pittsburgh area.  They will do this to enhance the purchasing profession, image and ethics and to maximize membership value.
 
Originally named The National Association of Purchasing Agents, the organization was granted a charter by the State of New York in March 1915.  It originally had 22 National Directors, most of whom were from cities other than New York.  One of those 22 Directors was E. L. McGrew of Standard Underground Cable Company of Pittsburgh.  It was hoped that these directors, many of whom came from the cities where local purchasing groups had previously been organized, would be instrumental in bringing these local organizations into the National.  History proves the logic of the thinking at that time.
 
Thus, in 1915, the Pittsburgh group became the first local group to align with the New York group and make the National Association of Purchasing Agents a reality.  The first National Convention, held in New York in 1916, elected Pittsburgh’s E. L. McGrew its President.  In line with changes at the National level, the Pittsburgh Association’s name was changed July 1, 1968, to the Purchasing Management Association of Pittsburgh.
 
In order to take advantage of the national recognition and prestige that the NAPM has generated from the C.P.M. program and the Report on Business Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), the Association’s name was changed to National Association of Purchasing Management-Pittsburgh (NAPM-Pittsburgh) on July 1, 1997.  In May 2001 the membership of NAPM voted to change the association’s name from the National Association of Purchasing Management to the Institute for Supply Management to reflect the increasing strategic and global significance of supply management.  In 2002, the membership of NAPM-Pittsburgh voted to change its name to the Institute for Supply Management–Pittsburgh.  This change strategically aligned the affiliate with ISM and the future of the supply management profession.
The total membership of NAPM numbered 250 in 1916, and 65 of that number belonged to the Pittsburgh Association.  Now the total membership of ISM numbers more than 40,000 of which the Pittsburgh Affiliate has approximately 600 members.  ISM-Pittsburgh celebrated its 94th anniversary in 2009.

2011- 2012 Schedule

• May 15,2012 – Joint Meeting with ISM
• June 13,2012 – Rex Gatto from Point Park’s Center for Management Excellence

What you missed:

PITT Ohio on September 14, 2012

CONSOL Energy/Marcellus Shale Presentation November 9, 2011

Accellent Orthopeadics on January 11, 2012

Rivers Casino on February 8, 2012

March 14, 2012 – APICS Pittsburgh at Giant Eagle Market District in Robinson

April 11, 2012 – Ginette Walker Vinski from Sustainable Pittsburgh