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Akron Chapter, AITP

The Association of Information Technology Professionals

Volume LI, Issue     November 2003

At the Tangiers Restaurant in Akron, Ohio on Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Send reservations to David A. Lisle: (216) 750-6674, (216) 750-6694 fax or lisle@ferro.com

Technical Session 5:15 – 6:00 pm

Social Time 6:00 – 6:30 pm

Dinner 6:30 – 7:15 pm

At the Door: $20 Non-Members, $15 Members, $12 Students

Feature Presentation 7:30 – 9:00 pm

Empowering Success for Global Competition

Joseph LaMantia, CFPIM, CIRM, CPA

Mr. Joseph LaMantia is Managing Partner of e-Ventus Corporation, a business and technology-consulting firm. Mr. LaMantia has over twenty years of experience in the consulting industry with engagements in e-business, business process re-engineering, strategic planning, strategic information technology consulting, business consolidation, enterprise modeling, enterprise resource planning system deployment and major project system integration. Mr. LaMantia has earned professional certifications in the areas of manufacturing (CFPIM, CIRM, C.P.M.); accounting and finance (CPA, CMA, CFM); project management (PMP) and consulting (CMC). He earned his MBA degree at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University with concentrations in finance and management information decision systems.

Technical Session

Mx Supplier CollaborationR

Utilizing state-of-the-art business and technical concepts, e-Ventus Corporation has developed powerful web solutions that can be quickly deployed in a wide variety of client environments. One of these products, Mx Supplier CollaborationR, enables clients to utilize the Internet to support supplier relationship management and promote consistent business processes across the supply chain. Releases, promise commitments and shipping information can be communicated efficiently within the supply chain.

During this Technical Session, e-Ventus will discuss how e-Collaboration and the web can be utilized to transform organizations. A brief overview demonstration of Mx Supplier Collaboration will be included.

Feature Presentation

e-Collaboration – Empowering Success in a Global Economy

This topic will address the challenges facing manufacturing organizations to retain their competitive position in a global economy. Using the Internet as the vehicle to smooth out the bumps in the supply chain, our discussion will highlight how technology has helped organizations synchronize the buyer/supplier framework while adding dollars to the bottom

line, increasing efficiency, and minimizing supply chain bottlenecks.