We’re Helping Suppliers Work Successfully with their OEM'S
We understand your current challenges.
As a manufacturer supplying to an OEM, we know you have plenty of issues to deal with:
- Hiring or retaining quality employees
- Rising healthcare costs
- Raw material shortages
- Wage and price increases
- Fuel surcharges
- Higher quality and delivery expectations
- Shorter lead time requirements
Your plate is full.
However, in today’s global marketplace, the future success of an OEM and their suppliers' are inseparable. The supplier development initiative called Accelerate! is designed to build on your continuous improvement processes you have already started, and encourage and support the launch of any new process improvement effort.
Here are some of the improvements you can anticipate in the Accelerate! program which directly translate to helping your bottom line:
- Knowledge and tools to improve your business and achieve bottom-line results without having to cut into your margin or make a cash investment
- The opportunity to successfully apply these strategies to all parts of your business beyond the process that impacts the OEM
- Build a better, more strategic relationship with your customers to help get more profitable business.
- Develop the infrastructure to sustain your improvements over time with employee involvement
- Free up cash to reinvest in your business by cutting waste, lowering your operating costs and reducing inventory.
- Determine your problem(s) and address your specific business issue(s) by tapping into the national Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) experience of helping manufacturers just like you
- Improve your on-time delivery (i.e. speed to market), a real competitive advantage for you as a domestic supplier with proven, effective Lean Tools that attack the low-hanging fruit.
- Gain an objective, third party resource that can help put your company on the fast track to Lean Improvement.