CMUC 2010 Constraints Management User Conference April 28 - 30, 2010 San Antonio, Texas Pre-Conference Sessions Keynote Address Companies to Speak Breakout Sessions Schedule Hotel and Travel Information Registration Information
Please join us for the 8th Annual Constraints Management User Conference. If you are a returning attendee, you will be happy to see several new sessions added to our program this year. We have also updated and expanded the introductory tract. We hope you see the value in the offerings this year, and join us for some fun on the Riverwalk of San Antonio.

The Beyond MRP Workshop UPDATED
Carol Ptak and Chad Smith, authors of the white paper, Beyond MRP, will offer an in-depth exploration of the logic behind the solution known as Actively Synchronized Replenishment (ASR).

Is your company living the "MRP Conflict?" Does your company work within its MRP system or outside of its MRP system? Does it do both? When Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) software was introduced it revolutionized the manufacturing landscape. Businesses immediately rushed to implement and harness its power. Today, most companies have some form of MRP system in charge of demand forecasting, plant scheduling and materials management and procurement. Despite this proliferation, almost every company is dissatisfied with its MRP system's ability to properly synchronize and manage between actual demand, capacity and incoming supply. Learn simple solutions for the critical shortcomings of MRP assumptions in the new world of PULL based planning and execution. See why this kind of economic climate actually represents a real opportunity through the use of ASR!

This day-long workshop is designed to give the participant a deep understanding about the problems and shortcomings associated with MRP systems and the common sets of compromises associated with them in the modern manufacturing and supply chain landscape. The workshop will reveal the full Actively Synchronized Replenishment modeling, planning and execution solution. The workshop has been updated to include a wealth of additional research and articulation for the upcoming book on the topic. If your company has MRP, Lean, TOC or DRP systems this workshop is a must for planning and supply chain personnel.

There is a $450 charge per person to attend this day long session. You do not have to attend the CMUC in order to attend this Pre-Conference event. Highlights include:

• Why MRP is particularly devastating in down economies
• The fundamental flaws of MRP and MRP implementations
• The necessary sequence to begin to address the materials synchronization and shortage challenge
• The critical differences between ASR planning and MRP
• The amazing cash, service and sales oriented benefits of ASR
• How ASR supports, simplifies and enhances Lean-Six Sigma implementations

Throughput Improvement Simulation™
This experiential simulation helps managers and employees learn about throughput improvement techniques and then allow them to experience the results by applying these methods in a simulated manufacturing plant and supply chain. By the end of the TIS attendees will have experienced the implementation of practical and effective throughput improvement techniques. One major highlight of the TIS is that participants will actually see and experience the difference between a LEAN manufacturing implementation and Drum-Buffer-Rope implementation and will have an insight on how to apply both without compromise. Attendees who enroll in this workshop must attend the full session running from 8:00-5:00 on Wednesday. Pre-enrollment is required, see registration form. Registration is limited to 18 participants per session and is on a first come, first served basis. There is a $350 charge per person to attend the TIS.

Measurement Nightmare Workshop UPDATED
Attendees will be provided with an explanation of the evolution of TOC from the initial production solution to a series of solution sets dealing with distribution, project management external constraints and strategic decision making. Participants will learn about the Throughput World and how this approach often results in a chronic conflict with traditional Cost World systems and beliefs. Learn a process for exposing conflicting policies, measures and work practices and how to generate win-win solutions for both the organization and its individuals. Leave with an innovative, yet practical, business solution for maximizing the ROI equation in your company. This session is a must for senior leaders. There is a $350 charge per person to attend this day long session.

Double sales, without increasing operating expenses: a full-day workshop for executives presented by Justin Roff-Marsh of Ballistix NEW
Justin will start this day with a challenge: figure out how to double your volume of new-business transactions – without an increase in operating expenses. You’ll then spend the balance of the day figuring out how to achieve this. Of course, Justin has a method for multiplying the efficiency of the sales function (what he calls Sales Process Engineering) – but the real challenge will be figuring out how to tightly integrate the reengineered sales process that you conceptualize with other critical functions: with new-product development, with engineering, with customer service and with production. If yours is like many organizations, Sales is the last part of the organization to retain the craft-shop mode of operation. This workshop will show you how to apply modern manufacturing principles to multiply the performance of sales but, more importantly, it’ll show you how to use this change process to synchronize the entire organization to build a more profitable and more competitive whole. This pre-conference session is offered for individuals or teams. The individual rate is $350 and teams of 3 or more receive a $50 discount per person.

DBR+™ User Forum
This Pre-Conference session is open to existing DBR+™ users only. Users can learn about new and planned enhancements, share their experiences with the products and make feature requests. This session will run from 8 – 12 noon.

R+® User Forum
This session is open to existing Replenishment+® users only. Users can learn about new and planned enhancements, share their experiences with the products and make feature requests. This session will run from 1 PM – 5 PM.

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Case Studies
Jamestown Container Companies (JCC) is a vertically integrated corrugated sheet, box and packaging supplier in the Eastern Ohio and Western New York region. See how this company’s 12 year journey with TOC has dramatically impacted their corporate strategy and structure to stay competitive, profitable and drive growth in a shrinking industry. Highlights include how they have created, delivered and maintained offers to the market based on the replenishment concept and how they have successfully integrated TOC with Lean and 6 Sigma concepts to create a system of continuous improvement. This is the first time the JCC has spoken publicly about their experience.

Miba Bearings US, LLC is located in McConnelsville, Ohio. Its parent company is Miba Group, an Austrian based international manufacturer of high-performance and technologically demanding power train components for motor vehicles, trains, ships, aircraft and power plants. McConnelsville is one of several plants in the Miba Bearing Group which has over 1,000 employees and enjoyed sales of over 160 million Euros in 2009. McConnelsville produces friction type bearings and typically has around 300 employees. The plant is a unique job shop facility with a foundry, static casting, cutting, stamping, heat treating, machining, etching, plating, packaging, and quality measuring operations. See how this plant has transformed its manufacturing scheduling and execution system through the use of Drum-Buffer-Rope.

Update Sessions
Have you ever wondered how companies that have formerly presented case studies at the CMUC have continued on their journey with constraints management? Eight companies; Bowden Manufacturing, Midwesco Filter Resources Inc., M.C. Gill Corp., Oregon Freeze Dry, Romac Industries, Royal Plastics, Siegwerk Inc., and Tube Forgings of America, have agreed to make brief presentations and take questions about the continuing experience with constraints management.

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Introduction to Drum-Buffer-Rope
In 1984, the book The Goal introduced a common sense, but unconventional way to look at maximizing the performance of a manufacturing environment through a scheduling process called Drum-Buffer- Rope. If your organization has difficulty producing a responsive, stable, and realistic schedule that maximizes total production throughput, minimizes WIP and expedite related expenses this session is a must. You will also see how DBR can be particularly effective in down economies.

Introduction to Critical Chain Project Management
Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is the newest and most effective way to synchronize and maximize the use of resources in project environments. Attendees will learn a revolutionary technique for planning and executing in a single or multi project environment. If your company has a limitation in project management or engineering CCPM is a good place to start with constraints management methodology.

Slaughtering Sacred Cows – An Overview of the Applications of Theory of Constraints NEW
See how the Theory of Constraints challenges conventional and prevailing assumptions in Operations, Finance, Materials Management, Distribution and Project Management.

An Introduction to Lean NEW
Lean is one of the biggest improvement buzzes in industry. What is it? How does it work? What are the keys to its success? Kevin Kohls, former Director of Lean for a Fortune 1000 company, will reveal the basics of Lean and answer the above questions.

ASR and Replenishment+® in Engineer to Order (ETO) Environments NEW
The concept of Actively Synchronized Replenishment was originally developed primarily for the make to stock market. New research has revealed a powerful application for the concept in Make to Order (MTO) and Engineer to Order (ETO) companies that suffer from materials planning and synchronization challenges.

Re-Engineering the Sales Process – How is it Working? NEW
This session will be hosted by two companies trying these new concepts out. This session will review the basic concepts and discuss how companies must adapt those concepts to their own unique sales related realities.

The New Global and Local Metric Suite NEW
See a simple but elegant set of global and local metrics that every manufacturing company should rely on and every employee can connect to their everyday actions. This set of metrics will be featured in the upcoming book, “The Constraints Management Handbook” to be published by McGraw-Hill.

ASR/Beyond MRP UPDATED
This session is designed to give the participant an overview of the problems and shortcomings associated with MRP systems and the common sets of compromises associated with them in the modern manufacturing and supply chain landscape. The session will reveal a solution known as Actively Synchronized Replenishment for these critical shortcomings and compromises. See why ANY kind of economic climate actually represents a real opportunity through the use of ASR!

Replenishment+® UPDATED
Replenishment+® is a uniquely powerful solution to the compromises and ineffectiveness of MRP in today’s manufacturing environment. It effectively facilitates pull-based materials and supply chain management throughout a manufacturing enterprise (Purchasing, Bill of Materials, and Fulfillment/Distribution). This session includes an introduction to the concept of Replenishment.

DBR+™ UPDATED
DBR+™ is a powerful tool to bring the methodology into real-time reality. Through proprietary design, DBR+™ allows users to easily MODEL, SCHEDULE and then easily EXECUTE through a real-time, user friendly web-based format. Additionally, reporting formats easily facilitate multiple types of CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT activities.

Combining Lean and TOC NEW
What happens when you combine the highly visible focusing mechanisms in TOC with structured problem solving tools of Lean? Kevin Kohls, former Director of Lean for a Fortune 1000 company, will reveal Lean and TOC can be combined to create a powerful and sustainable culture of improvement that translates to the bottom line.

Combining LEAN & CCPM in Pull-Based Project Delivery Systems
Hear how LEAN’s focus on cycle time and waste reduction are being used in concert with the powerful planning, scheduling and execution methodologies of CCPM to create a fully sufficient project delivery system for major manufacturing and engineering enterprises.

TOC Related Sales Offers, Processes and Analytics UPDATED
In today’s environment finding the right offer for the market while minimizing working capital and expenses is a necessary condition of survival. This session will feature a combination of new techniques including lead time compression strategies, template sales offers and new ways to manage the sales process for better total throughput performance.

Typical ERP Implementation Challenges NEW
This session will be led by John Loucks the Managing Partner of Visual Results, a company that specializes in ERP re-implementations. John is in a unique position to understand and articulate the typical and very expensive mistakes companies make when searching for and implementing ERP systems.

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Download a printable schedule with session descriptions here.

Tuesday, April 27th  7:00 PM Cocktail Party and Registration for all attending pre-conference events at El Capistrano, in the courtyard by the pool, Omni La Mansion

Wednesday, April 28th  7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast for Pre-Conference Attendees  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Pre-Conference Sessions: Measurement Nightmare Workshop The Beyond MRP Workshop Double sales, without increasing operating expenses Throughput Improvement Simulation™ DBR+™ User Forum (8:00 AM - 12 Noon) R+® User Forum (1:00 PM – 5:00 PM) 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch 7:00 PM Cocktail Party for all attendees in the courtyard by the pool, Omni la Mansion

Thursday, April 29th  7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:00 AM – 9:20 AM General Session Opening Remarks Case Study: Jamestown Conatiner Companies Update Session: Oregon Freeze Dry 9:20 AM – 9:30 AM Break 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Break Out Flight 1 Introduction to Drum-Buffer-Rope ASR/Beyond MRP  The New Global and Local Metric Suite Combining LEAN and TOC in Pull Based Projects 11:00 PM – 11:10 AM Break  11:10 AM - 12:00 PM General Session Update Sessions: M.C. Gill Corporation, Tube Forgings of America and Romac Industries 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch  1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Break Out Flight 2 Introduction to LEAN ASR and Replenishment in Engineer to Order (ETO) Environments ERP Challenges DBR+™ 2:30 PM – 2:40 PM Break 2:40 PM - 3:35 PM General Session Update Sessions Bowden Manufacturing Siegwerk Inc. Royal Plastics 3:35 PM – 3:45 PM Break 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Break Out Flight 3 Introduction to Critical Chain Project Management R+® Combining LEAN and TOC Sales Offers 5:45 PM – 9:00 PM CMUC Off-Site Dinner (Meet by Pool)

Friday, April 30th 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast 8:00 AM - 9:10 AM General Session Case Study – MIBA Update Session – MFRI 9:10 AM – 9:20 AM Break 9:20 AM – 10:50 AM Break Out Flight 4 Slaughtering Sacred Cows Re-engineering the Sales Process, How is it working? ERP Challenges Intro to LEAN 10:50 AM – 11:00 AM Break 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM Break Out Flight 5 Combining LEAN and TOC R+® Combining LEAN and TOC in Pull Based Project Delivery Systems The New Global and Local Metric Suite 12:30 PM Conference Adjourns

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Hotel
Omni La Mansion Del Rio
112 College St.
San Antonio, TX 78205
(210)518-1000
http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/SanAntonioLaMansionDelRio.aspx
Special Conference Rate of $189 per night, must book by Tuesday, April 6th

Transportation
Airport – Airport Code is (SAT) San Antonio International Airport, approximately 8 miles or 15 minutes from the hotel.
Taxi - $17.00 (one way/average fare)
Driving Directions Check website for specific directions from your location at http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/SanAntonioLaMansionDelRio/MapAndDirections.aspx.

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Pricing:
Conference Rates (for Thursday and Friday Sessions)

• $1050 per person for 1-2 people
• $950 per person for teams of 3 or more
• $100 discount for past CMUC attendance

Pre-Conference Rates (for events held on Wednesday)

• Beyond MRP - Meeting the Current Materials Synchronization Challenge with ASR - $450 per person
• Throughput Improvement Simulation™ - $350 per person
• Measurement Nightmare - $350 per person
• Double sales, without increasing operating expenses: a full-day workshop for executives - $350 per person (teams of 3 or more receive a $50 discount per person)
• DBR+ and R+ User Forum – free, but limited to those companies with a current license.

To register online click here. Or to register via fax, download the manual form here.

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