CMUC 2011 Constraints Management User Conference May 4 - 6 Cleveland, OH Pre-Conference Sessions Keynote Address Companies to Speak Breakout Sessions Schedule Hotel and Travel Information Registration Information

Constraints Management Group, LLC invites you to attend this year’s Constraints Management User Conference. This year’s conference will feature a two plant tours, the release of groundbreaking demand driven techniques and a special dinner event participants will not forget. Through over 20 different sessions & workshops including company case studies, pre-conference events, update sessions and a special keynote address you can discover and/or share in a solution to these challenging times that allows you to concentrate effort and investment while reducing waste, conserving cash and improving service levels throughout your organization and supply chain.

Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP) Workshop
Carol Ptak and Chad Smith, authors of Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Revised Edition, (McGraw-Hill, 2011) will offer an in-depth exploration of the logic behind the innovative and groundbreaking multi-echelon inventory and materials planning and execution method known as Demand Driven MRP.

The workshop will describe and clarify the poor business results embedded in most of today’s demand and supply planning systems; discusses the core problems causing the results; presents and details an alternative demand driven structure for planning and controlling materials flow; and presents initial results from actual implementations. This new solution helps companies tackle three pervasive 21st Century problems: unacceptable inventory performance; unacceptable service level performance; and high related expenses and waste.

The workshop is divided into two sections.

Section 1, MRP in the Modern World, answers four critical questions:

1. Is MRP still relevant?
2. Is MRP failing because it is flawed or poorly implemented?
3. Why do pull oriented philosophies like Lean come into conflict with MRP?
4. Why has MRP failed to significantly evolve over the last 30 years?

Section 2, Demand Driven MRP details the blueprint for the evolution of MRP in the modern world. The five critical components of DDMRP will be detailed:

1. Inventory Positioning
2. Buffer Profiles and Level Determination
3. Dynamic Buffers
4. Demand Driven Planning
5. Highly Visible and Collaborative Execution

Attendees will receive an autographed copy of the book. 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.

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
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.

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. There is no charge for this session.

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. There is no charge for this session.

Plant Tour - Bowden MFG and Wellman Products
The 2011 CMUC will feature a tour of two separate manufacturing facilities. In the morning, the group will embark via bus to Bowden Manufacturing (www.bowdenmfg.com an award winning supplier to the medical, aerospace, defense and energy related industries. See first hand how Bowden has embraced TOC principles to foster growth, drive profitability and create a special working experience for its employees and stakeholders.

In the afternoon the group will travel via bus to Wellman Products Group’s (www.wellmanproducts.com Medina, OH manufacturing plant. Wellman Products Group provides advanced friction solutions to several well known equipment OEMs for a variety of applications. See first hand how Wellman transformed its planning and schedule methods, blending TOC concepts with an existing lean culture in order to focus on better service and inventory performance.

There is a $200 charge per person to attend this day long tour.

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Erik Bush – Pushing the World Into Pull

Erik Bush recently retired from IBM after 31 years of experience with the company, the majority of which have been in management and executive positions. More recently, as the executive responsible for the IBM’s GBS Global Delivery Centers, Erik lead the implementation of sweeping changes which resulted in improved client service and substantially enhanced capabilities. The GBS global delivery network grew from 15,000 staff to over 40,000 during his tenure. The growth rate of these capabilities eclipsed that of all major competitors during this period.

While at IBM Erik introduced and invested in TOC principles that produced innovative and groundbreaking applications of TOC within Service based industries.

Erik is now leading a technology start-up aimed at proliferating the demand driven principles behind TOC throughout the industrial world.

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Special Guest Speaker: John Ricketts, Cloud Computing and Smarter Planet
Cloud Computing is an emerging technology that gives organizations new ways to manage information. Smarter Planet is an initiative that applies Cloud Computing and other technologies to make business and government smarter. John Ricketts, Distinguished and Chief Technology Officer for Industry Solutions Software at IBM, a company at the forefront Cloud Computing and Smarter Planet, will give the audience a peek into these trends and their implications for business and government.

Case Studies

Wellman Products Group, Inc.
Provides advanced friction solutions to several well known equipment OEMs for a variety of applications. Hear how Wellman Products has transformed its planning and schedule methods, blending TOC concepts with an existing lean culture in order to focus on better service and inventory performance.

Update Sessions
Hear how companies that have formerly presented case studies at the CMUC have continued on their journey with constraints management. More to come.

Confirmed Update Sessions (more to come):

• Oregon Freeze Dry
• Romac Industries
• Bowden Manufacturing
• Royal Plastics
• Midwesco Filter Resources
• Rex Materials Group
• 9 Wood
• M.C. Gill Corporation
• LeTourneau Technologies, Inc. – Steel Group

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Replenishment+®
REPLENISHMENT+® (R+®) is a best of breed multi-echelon materials and inventory management software designed to facilitate a demand pull inventory system consistent with the methodology known as Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP) and Actively Synchronized Replenishment (ASR), an application of the Theory of Constraints. It is the only fully compliant DDMRP and ASR software in the world.

DBR+™
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.

Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP)
Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning is an innovative multi-echelon pull methodology to plan inventories and materials. It enables a company to build more closely to actual market requirements and promotes better and quicker decisions and actions at the planning and execution level. DDMRP is a central component of the new book, Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Revised Edition.

The New Demand Driven Metrics Suite
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 is featured in The Theory of Constraints Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 2010, Chapter 14.

Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)
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.

Demand Driven MRP in ETO and Pure MTO Environments
The concept of Demand Driven MRP incorporates new tactics for planning and execution for all types of environments. 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.

Integrating TOC, Lean and Six Sigma
Sustainable continuous improvement requires a combination of TOC, Lean, and Six Sigma methodologies. This presentation presents a case study of how one company combined all three bodies of knowledge to compress improvement timelines, double productivity, and generate a market offer. For organizations that desire similar results, a process improvement model is proposed that will establish which methodologies to apply at the appropriate level in the organization.

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 stable, realistic and reliable schedule that maximizes total production throughput, this session is a must.

Strategic Solutions Refresher
The Thinking Processes behind the Theory of Constraints are one of the most critical and underappreciated aspects of the methodology. This interactive session is designed for Jonahs to share the successes and obstacles they have faced in working with the Thinking Processes in their respective environments. This session will be led by Chad Smith.

Breakout Flight 1:
DBR+™ (Presenter: Greg Cass & Kirk Black)
DDMRP (Presenter: Chad Smith & Carol Ptak)
Demand Driven Metrics (Presenter: Debra Smith)
Critical Chain Project Management (Presenter: Michael Pitcher)

Breakout Flight 2:
Replenishment+® (Presenters: Greg Cass & Kirk Black)
DDMRP in ETO and MTO (Presenters: Chad Smith & Paddy Rama)
Integrating TOC, Lean and Six Sigma (Presenter: Michael Pitcher)
Introduction to DBR (Presenter: Debra Smith)

Breakout Flight 3:
Demand Driven Metrics (Presenter: Debra Smith)
Strategic Solutions Refresher (Presenter: Chad Smith)
Replenishment+® (Presenter: Greg Cass & Kirk Black)
DBR+® (Presenters: Paddy Rama & Michael Pitcher)

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Thursday, May 5th  8:30 AM Introduction and Awards 8:45 AM – 10:10 AM Keynote – Erik Bush, Pushing the World into Pull 9:30 AM Update Sessions 1 & 2 10:10 AM Break 10:30 AM Breakout Flight 1 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch  1:00 PM Case Study – Wellman Products Group 1:45 PM - 2:25 PM Update Sessions 3 & 4 2:25 PM Break 2:40 PM Break Out Flight 2 4:10 PM Break 4:20 PM - 5:00 PM Update Sessions 5 & 6 5:30 PM Depart for Conference Dinner

Friday, May 6th 8:30 AM Special Guest Speaker – John Ricketts, Cloud Computing and Smarter Planet 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Update Sessions 7 & 8 & 9 10:15 AM Break 10:30 AM Breakout Flight 3 12:00 PM Conference Adjourns

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Hotel
Embassy Suites Cleveland - Downtown
1701 East 12th Street
Cleveland, OH 44144
Telephone (216) 523-1947
The link below will take you directly to our personalized group page, to where you can book your rooms directly on line. http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/groups/personalized/C/CLEESES-CMG-20110503/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG
Special Conference Rate of $106 per night, must book by Wednesday, April 20th.

Transportation
Airport – Airport is (CLE) Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, approximately 20 miles or 20 minutes from the hotel.
Taxi - $20.00 (one way/average fare)
Driving Directions Check website for specific directions from your location at http://embassysuites1.hilton.com/en_US/es/hotel/CLEESES-Embassy-Suites-Cleveland-Downtown-Ohio/directions.do.

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Pricing:
Conference Rates (for Thursday and Friday Sessions)

• $1200 per person for 1-2 people
• $1050 per person for teams of 3 or more
• $100 discount for past CMUC attendance

Pre-Conference Rates (for events held on Wednesday)

• Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP) Workshop - $450 per person
• Throughput Improvement Simulation™ - $350 per person
• Measurement Nightmare - $350 per person
• DBR+ and R+ User Forum – free, but limited to those companies with a current license.
• Plant Tours - $200.00 per person

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

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