About APICS Tappan Zee

Welcome to the Tappan Zee Chapter of APICS

The Tappan Zee Chapter of APICS primarily serves the metropolitan New York areas of; Westchester and Rockland Counties and New York City. The Chapter’s Mission is to be the premier provider of educational and networking services for Operations Management professionals. Our goal is to help you and your business operate more efficiently and improve your profitability.

To support these goals the chapter sponsors eight monthly Professional Development Meetings (PDMs) per year. These PDM meetings could include a speaker presenting a topic relevant to the Operations Management body of knowledge or a local company hosting a plant tour to share their operational excellence. Speaker presentations are open to the public. To encourage networking amongst our peers, the chapter invites attendees to stay for dinner for a nominal fee. The chapter also sponsors seminars. For more information on upcoming events, please go to our Calendar of Events.

The Chapter also offers courses to help prepare for the APICS certification exams, CPIM and CSCP. We offer courses for the community as well as work with individual companies to provide in-house certification preparation training courses, which can be customized to your company’s needs. For more information please go to Education.

APICS - The Association for Operations Management

APICS—The Association for Operations Management is a not-for-profit international educational organization respected throughout the world for its education and professional certification programs. With more than 35,000 individual and corporate members in 20,000 companies worldwide, APICS is dedicated to using education to improve the business bottom line.

APICS is recognized globally as:

• The source of knowledge and expertise for manufacturing and service industries across the entire supply chain in such areas as materials management, information services, purchasing and quality.
• The leading provider of high-quality, cutting-edge educational programs that advance organizational success in a changing, competitive marketplace
• A successful developer of three internationally recognized certification programs, Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), Certified in Integrated Resource Management (CIRM) and Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP).
• A distribution center for hundreds of business management publications and educational materials
• A source of solutions, support, and networking local chapters, workshops, symposia, and the annual APICS International Conference and Exposition.

Founded in 1957 as the American Production and Inventory Control Society, APICS has since expanded its focus to include a full range of programs and materials on individual and organizational education, standards of excellence, and integrated resource management. To reflect this new direction, we are now known as APICS—The Association for Operations Management.