Mitigating Supply Chain Risk with a Dual Sourcing Strategy For all the negative news about global supply chain disruptions it’s good to know that there’s at least one positive when it comes to future trends in supply chain management, and it’s this: Dual sourcing is on trend to become the next big thing in B2B [...]
We’re Thrilled to Announce New MetricsHoldings.com is Live! Whether you’ve known us only as MES, MetricsWorks, or MESH, now you can learn who we really are: Introducing MetricsHoldings.com, which features the collective work and strength of all three of our companies. Launched in April 2023, MetricsHoldings.com showcases our ongoing commitment to deliver value-added services to [...]
Employee Growth: How We Prioritize It with Training At MES, there’s no such thing as a typical day. Our associates can find themselves in a team brainstorming session, making peanut butter sandwiches to support a local charity, or reverse-engineering a manufactured part for an automotive, lighting, or other customers. No matter what we’re doing, there’s [...]
How We Help Our Customers Get the Best Possible Castings, Extrusions and Machined Parts “Our manufacturing supplier cannot deliver zero-defect quality.” This is something we at MES often hear during our meetings with prospective new customers. It’s also one of the biggest obstacles some lighting, transportation, and EV companies have in sourcing their own manufacturing suppliers. [...]
Shifting Your Supply Chain Strategy to Align with the New Normal Insights for small businesses from the AACG Economic Summit 2022 If the pandemic taught us anything it’s that there is no “normal”—new or otherwise. Instead, what we have is what, perhaps, we should have had all along: smart, nimble supply strategies that work within [...]
Aluminum Pricing Outlook - China China – Aluminum Update Price: RM prices have softened a bit in China due to the lockdown and lower demand for housing. Pricing outlook for the rest of 2022 and 2023 remains robust – Last 90 days have seen a reduction of about 9% but the end of the year [...]
Just-In-time to Just-In-Case Inventory Management Our customers were greatly affected by the global pandemic of 2020 and the subsequent container issues. And frankly, so were we. But we’re not ones to sit idly by and let things unfold organically because that would be disastrous for us and for our customers. Besides, we stand firm in [...]
HR Impact: How MES Became a People-First Organization It’s been a little more than 8 years since Heena Shah came to MES as Chief People Officer. Since then, MES has grown exponentially with a reach that spans 9 countries and includes hundreds of team members in 20+ cities around the world. Being responsible for all [...]
Challenges in Picking Suppliers for EV Vehicles! If you’re an automotive manufacturer in the electric vehicle market, you’re already dealing with supply chain issues, but you also may be plagued by something else: Finding a trusted and reliable supplier for high-quality Tier I castings, forgings, machinings, and stampings for your electric vehicle (EV) production line. [...]
What We Got Wrong About COVID Thirty months since our team members first learned about Coronavirus (remember calling it that!) and there is a lot we have learned. It is sobering to think about over half a billion people around the world have contracted Covid and we have over 6.35 million recorded deaths (excluding China, [...]