The
Chicagoland Roundtable of the Council of Supply Chain
Management Professionals (CSCMP) will be at the Paddock
Printing Center, located in Schaumburg, Illinois. We have
planned an approximately 75 minute tour of the facility,
on Thursday, October 18th, 2007, with a dinner and networking
session to follow.
The
Paddock Printing Center creates approximately 160,000 Daily
Herald newspapers every day, serving 17 different zones
and 90 communities in the Chicagoland area. But what can
supply chain professionals learn from a printing operation?
The Paddock Operations teams have to manage very similar
issues as any manufacturing and service-based logistics
oper-ations, including managing short order fulfillment
windows, Just-In-Time inventories (daily newsworthy sections),
kitting (zoned and date-specific advertising), warehousing,
transpor-tation, returns, tracking, and disaster-recovery
and backup. This is a very interesting tour, and one that
has application to many issues faced by Supply Chain professionals
every day.
If
you are interested in watching how this operation consumes
728 miles of newsprint overnight, you must come to this
tour! Here are the registration details:
What:
Paddock
Printing Center Tour
Where:
1000
West Albion Avenue
Schaumburg, IL (see directions)
When:
Thursday,
October 18th, 2007
Check-in: 3:00p to 3:15p
Start time: 3:30p
End time: approximately 5:00p
No walk-ups can be accepted
Fee:
$45
(pre-payment only, please)
Register on-line at www.CSCMPChicago.org.
Payment
is accepted by credit card only.
Dinner
will be held at Pilot Pete's immediately following the
tour, and is located a short distance from the Paddock
facility at the Schaumburg Regional Airport. Pilot Pete's
address is 905 West Irving Park Road, Schaumburg, IL
60193; phone: 847-891-5100.
Please consider attending this outstanding event.
Attendance is limited, and pre-registration is required.
Contact Tom Wojcik at twojcik@encore-c.com
for more details.
