Dear Ty,

Correction - Gibson Guitar tour date is December 12.

For those of you planning ahead, please note that the Gibson Guitar facility tour is actually planned for Tuesday, December 12, 2006. This is the second Tuesday of the month instead of the normal third Tuesday. Please ignore December 19 date in the earlier email and the newsletter.

We appreciate the arrangements made by our friends at Gibson Guitar and wanted to make sure we made the correction as soon as possible. Please tell your friends who may not be receiving the emailed newsletter.

We will also correct the date in the December hardcopy newsletter, but would hate to have some of you show up on December 19 and wonder where everyone was at. From personal experience, I know it is really easy to have Outlook put all the PDM's on the third Tuesday. However, you'll need to change this one to the second Tuesday. Thanks.

Please mark your calendar and tell your friends. It should be a great tour of a great facility. We are all looking forward to it. Again, the tour of Gibson Guitar will be December 12.

Next PDM is November 21  

Hope to see you on November 21, 2006, at the Radisson Opryland for the presentation by Dean Smetana, Sanford Director of Materials who will be speaking on Executive Sales and Operations Planning: The "Sharpie" Journey. Then we'll meet again at Gibson Guitar on December 12. Sounds like a plan. For reservation for the PDM please email Laura Pyron before November 16.

Thirty-Something Party Planning

For those of you who have been around a while, did you know the APICS Middle Tennessee Chapter was chartered on December 1, 1970. That means the chapter has been around for thirty-some years. We are planning a get together sometime in the spring to celebrate.

This is an early announcement so you can get in touch with some of the earlier chapter members to let them know that we want to have a real celebration of the contribution the APICS Middle Tennessee Chapter has made to middle Tennessee.

We will be looking for pictures of early PDMs, stories of what APICS has meant to the members, where some of the members have gone to from here, etc. I can't give you a date yet, but we want it to be a real celebration of those APICS members who contributed, and continue to contribute, so much to the local and national landscape.

We would be interested in your ideas and suggestions on what we could do to make this a special event. What about a golf outing to go along with the meeting? Would you be interested? Let me know at President@APICSNashville.org.

Ty Tabernik

President

APICS Middle Tennessee Chapter