Tuesday, September 21, 2021 - Professional Dinner Meeting

Topic:  How to Implement Lean:  What Works and What Doesn't

Guest Speaker: Raimund Laqua, PMP, P.Eng.

Raimund Laqua is founder and Chief Compliance Engineer at Lean Compliance Consulting, Inc. His focus is helping ethical, ambitious companies in highly-regulated, high-risk industries improve the effectiveness of their compliance programs covering safety & security, quality, regulatory and environmental objectives.

Raimund is a professional engineer with a bachelor’s degree in electrical / computer engineering from McMaster University. He has consulted for over 25 years across North America applying his technical knowledge and strategic approach to advance critical processes within: oil & gas, energy, pharmaceutical, medical device, government and technology companies.

Raimund is author of weekly blog articles, and an upcoming book on effective compliance. He speaks regularly on the topics of risk, compliance, and digital transformation.

DATE:  Tuesday, September 21, 2021

AGENDA::

6:30 pm – Networking

7:00 pm – Guest Speaker Raimund Laqua

8:00 pm – Questions and Wrap-up

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:   Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Depending on COVID in September, this meeting will be held at the Ramanda Inn or Virtual (Zoom link).  If Virtual, prior to the event, an email will be sent with the ZOOM link to connect to this APICS Professional Meeting

For more information or to register for this meeting, please click on link info@apicslondon.org

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - Professional Dinner Meeting

Topic:  Barcodingt

Guest Speaker: Ron Ford.

Ron Ford, President of AGiiLE which was incorporated in 2000 and has grown to be the largest barcode supplier in southwestern Ontario. Our crusade is to help our customers with their research in order that they become educated and informed, so that they are comfortable that they have made the right decision.

AGiiLE is a family business, and was founded by Ron Ford, who had worked for IBM and Intermec in the computer hardware industry. Ron was joined by his wife Brenda as the business continued to expand. In the beginning, AGiiLE offered printing services to print product labels for a local winery. Another project was to partner with a local photography studio to print ID cards for high school students. AGiiLE added a label printing system so that companies could print their own product labels and shipping labels. Today, AGiiLE offers innovative solutions such as customized Android programming that will scan a barcode and then print a perfect barcode label.

The Business London magazine helped us celebrate our 20 year anniversary with a special issue: Business London 2020 Milestones

AGiiLE has just rolled out an innovative online store that is available 24/7. The store makes it easy to select the best model and then select the features that are the best fit for the job. Once the model has been selected, then you can choose the accessories, service contract, and supplies from the comfort of your desk.

Customers have the choice of the best quality hardware from top manufacturers, such as Zebra, Honeywell, Epson and Datalogic. With these suppliers, AGiiLE is able to offer the full line of barcode printers, barcode scanners and mobile computers with integrated scanners.

There is no question that barcodes can be quite intimidating. There are questions on how to print a barcode and then how to scan that barcode. Companies know that barcodes will help track their inventory. However, they do not have the time or expertise to research all the options that are available to them. The choices can be overwhelming, as there are over 75 types of barcodes, and hundreds of barcode scanners and barcode printers. 

DATE:  Tuesday, November 16, 2021

AGENDA:

6:30 pm – Networking

7:00 pm – Guest Speaker Raimund Laqua

8:00 pm – Questions and Wrap-up

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:   Tuesday, November 8, 2021

Depending on COVID in September, this meeting will be held at the Ramanda Inn or Virtual (Zoom link).  If Virtual, prior to the event, an email will be sent with the ZOOM link to connect to this APICS Professional Meeting

For more information or to register for this meeting, please click on link info@apicslondon.org