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 Do More With Less: The 5 Strategies Used by Successful SMB Manufacturers
A common issue facing small and medium-sized business (SMB) manufacturers today is how to increase revenue and grow their business without significantly adding staff. With larger firms able to compete by drawing upon greater financial resources, and often times able to simply apply more resources, including employees, equipment, contractors, and vendors to new initiatives; it leaves the SMB manufacturer at a distinct disadvantage. Most entrepreneurial or start-up manufacturers seek to grow within their means,avoiding the temptation of leveraging venture funding at the risk of losing control of their business. Download Article

 Mid-market Manufacturers and the New Landscape for Enterprise Resource Planning
Even companies that are considered relatively small in revenue, employment or client base now must act like the largest corporations in structuring and conducting their businesses. They find themselves no longer operating within a geographically delineated niche in the supply chain but rather in a worldwide market place. Download Article

 The Seven Keys to World Class Manufacturing
What does it mean to be a world-class competitor? It means being successful in your chosen market against any competition—regardless of size, country of origin or resources. It means matching or exceeding any competitor on quality, lead time, flexibility, cost/price, customer service and innovation. It means picking your battles—competing where and when you choose and on terms that you dictate. It means you are in control and your competitors struggle to emulate your success. Download Article

 From Lean to Green
In today’s business environment, nearly everyone is looking for a leg up on the competition. Increasingly, “lean” is becoming the method of choice to try to achieve this goal. Far too often it seems that cost reduction is the immediate objective of lean initiatives. Occasionally, a CEO or president of a company emerges who has a greater vision than simply cutting the day-to-day expenses involved in the operation of his business. These executives understand that the real opportunity in any improvement initiative, whether it is lean or Theory of Constraints (TOC) or Total Quality Management (TQM), is the ability to grow a business. Download Article

 Maintain Your Focus: Sustaining the Lean Transformation on the Shop Floor
From its origins in the Japanese automotive industry several decades ago, Lean has become the proven approach companies have used in industry after industry to transform into – and maintain position as – leading, dominant, world-class competitors. Not only do these companies define the high bar of industry performance, but month after month, year after year, they constantly raise that performance bar. Download Article