PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MEETING

Wednesday, May 11th

“Your Professional Association for Personal and Business Growth”

LOCATION: Downtown Aquarium

Bob Collins CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP

Are you a Supply Chain, Operations or Logistics Professional?  Do you want to move up in your career, help your company in tangible ways? What do you know about APICS today? APICS is the global leader and premier source of the body of knowledge in supply chain and operations management, including production, inventory, materials management, purchasing, and logistics. Our membership is growing, our certifications are the most recognized and successful in our profession and we’re adding a new major certification midyear. Come hear a former APICS volunteer, turned APICS staff member. Bob will give you the inside scoop on how APICS has grown and changed to better serve Supply Chain, Operations and Logistics professionals, and to help them enhance their careers and increase their worth to their companies.

BOB COLLINS, CFPIM, CIRM, CSCP, is the Senior Director of Professional Development for APICS. Collins is responsible for certification and non-certification courseware and the APICS Instructor Development Program (IDP). 

Prior to joining the APICS staff, Collins worked as both a practitioner and consultant in the operations management and supply chain field, and is a long time APICS member, volunteer and instructor, including Chapter President in 1996 and APICS International President in 2003.  He is an experienced APICS instructor and an APICS Master of Instructor Training, having taught over 1200 hours of the APICS CPIM and CIRM courses to companies around the United States and several hundred hours of Instructor Training courses to APICS instructors around the world.  He is a frequent speaker at the APICS International Conference and has presented at Supply Chain conferences in the United States, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and Singapore.