APICS Florida West Coast Chapter Meeting
September 11, 2007

Speaker: Barry Blood, CPIM

Tucsonís, Clearwater MAP

13563 Icot Blvd
Clearwater, FL 33760

5:30 - 6:30 Social Hour

6:30 - 8:00 Dinner and Speaker Presentation

TOPIC: Cleaning up your ERP/MRP Painlessly

One of the biggest problems MRP/ERP users must deal with on a day-to-day basis is Ö.. 'bad', inaccurate data. Data that contaminates the system and causes the output to be 'questionable' at best, 'completely unbelievable' at worst. This presentation will offer a 'painless' process for remedying this situation once and for all. A process that proposes to improve the integrity and usefulness of the MRP/ERP database and therefore improve the believability of the entire MRP/ERP system.

Participants will learnÖ..

how to detect 'bad', inaccurate data in their MRP/ERP system.
how to recognize problems caused by a contaminated database.
a simple 'painless' process that can assure a 'clean', accurate, believable database.

No MRP/ERP system is immune to this problem of 'bad', inaccurate data yet over the years, very few solutions have been proposed. This presentation offers such a solution. One that has been tried and tested and can be used with any MRP/ERP database.

Speaker: Barry Blood, CPIM

The speaker is Barry Blood. Barry Blood has been associated with the manufacturing industry since 1962, as a practitioner, a manager, a consultant, and a teacher. He has been an APICS member since 1975, and is a charter member of the Florida West Coast Chapter. He is also a Past President of that Chapter.

Barry has been speaking at APICS meetings and conferences since 1979. Over the years he has spoken at:

over forty different Chapters across the USA (most of them two or three times)
thirteen APICS International Conferences in the USA and Canada
eighteen APICS Regional Conferences
one Worldwide Congress for Manufacturing, in Amsterdam

He is considered by many to be a 'Pioneer' in the field of effective use of computerized manufacturing systems.