The Company Coordinator is an individual dedicated to the professional and educational philosophies of APICS, who represents his or her company in regards to the educational needs of its employees, and communicates that need to the SoMN Chapter.

General Information

Company Coordinators act as liaisons between the SoMN Chapter Board of Directors and fellow employees at their companies. They disseminate meeting information, coordinate registration for programs and certification classes, make membership applications available, and help the company derive maximum benefit from its APICS activities.

The program is voluntary and time requirements will vary depending on the size of your organization. Most Company Coordinators probably invest about one to two hours per month.

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Benefits

• Your name published in the Chapter Newsletter and Chapter Website
• Recognition at Chapter Professional Development Meetings
• Networking opportunities with other company coordinators
• Advance notice to upcoming chapter activities

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Responsibilities

• Perform annual audits to update and maintain voting (CV) and subsidiary (CS) members under that membership, if the company has a corporate membership,
• Provide feedback to the Board of Directors regarding chapter performance.
• Distribute electronic copies, and other APICS literature to interested parties and key personnel within your company.
• Be a key source of information regarding APICS within your organization.
• Coordinate registration within your company for chapter activities and relay names and supporting information to the APICS

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Suggestions for Displaying Info.

The following are a few ways to let your company know what is happening with APICS. Feel free to be creative with other ways of displaying information, and please pass your suggestions on to the VP Membership and other company coordinators.

• Set up an APICS bulletin board and/or Inter-company mailing list for emailing of chapter activities
• Advanced copies of all chapter publications will be emailed to you.
• Post newsletter, certification and seminar information, and sign-up sheets on bulletin boards in lunchrooms, break-rooms, lounges and outside your office/cubicle.
• If you have a company newsletter, publish an article reminding others about APICS and its educational and networking opportunities.

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Opportunities

• Volunteer to work on other membership projects:
• Work with the VP Marketing on spreading the APICS word to other decision-makers in your company
• Assist with developing round table discussions on questions you have with companies in similar situations.
• Share ideas with other company coordinators.

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Corporate Memberships

Corporate memberships belong to the COMPANY and all membership correspondence is sent to ONE central address. By becoming a corporate member, all employees at a single office location benefit from membership; however, there are two levels of privileges or benefits. If you are a company coordinator of a company that has a corporate membership, you may be asked to clarify the difference between corporate voting members versus corporate subsidiaries.

1. Corporate Voting -- full membership privileges
1. A company designates five employee representatives to receive full membership privileges and to receive regular information from APICS, the same as an individual member. The five representative memberships can be transferred to other employees whenever there are changes in personnel.

2. Corporate Subsidiary -- discount privileges only
1. In addition to the 5 Corporate Voting members, all employees from the same corporate location receive member discounts on courses, publications and other educational resources.

Corporate subsidiaries

• Do not receive mailings
• Do not have voting privileges,
• Do not receive points towards certification maintenance,
• Do not have access to the members-only section on the Society APICS website.

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Current Company Coordinators

We are looking for volunteers who would like to serve as liaisons between our chapter and Southern Minnesota companies. Please contact Steve Koebele to volunteer or to make changes to this list.

The board welcomes and encourages feedback from Company Coordinators and all APICS members. Please feel free to contact any board member if you have questions or concerns

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Contact Info.

VP of Marketing & Company Coordinator Interface

Steve Koebele
507-253-5260
marketing@apicssomn.org | companycoordinators@apicssomn.org

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