How the Right Supplier Can Help Save your Reputation Shoddy quality from a supplier is a direct reflection on you. Can you afford to pay for their mistakes with your reputation? Successful businesses know that reputation is a key component of customer loyalty and, ultimately, profitability. Researchers say that up to 80% of market value [...]
13 Countermeasures To Manage The Container Shortage Crisis COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on everything from the way we work to the way we spend our leisure time. Thankfully, some things have begun to settle down and return to a semblance of normal – but not everything. From fast-casual restaurants to shipping ports, labor shortages still [...]
<strong>Our CEO & President, Hiten Shah</strong>, participated as one of the keynote speakers at The Presidents’ Forum of Columbus event. Hiten was one of the first speakers to kick off the event and had 30 minutes to discuss a plethora of topics, including the future of MES, hind sighting last year and overcoming the challenges [...]
MES Supports Local Charities During National Volunteer Month April is National Volunteer Month, but with COVID-19 restrictions, many volunteer organizations have canceled in-person opportunities or stricken in-person volunteer opportunities. So how do you continue with your corporate philanthropy and supporting your local communities during a global pandemic? Here at MES, we believe in supporting those [...]
4 Signs It’s Time to Switch Suppliers Here’s how to know when to fire a vendor – even if they’ve been an extension of your team for a long time. Whoever said business isn’t personal never lost a job, promotion, client, or customer. It is personal. That’s because business involves people who are in a [...]
Global Vaccination Update – Ohio Operations – Vaccinated One of our commitments to our team members has been to keep them safe. Our team has been working from home and coming into offices, visiting suppliers, visit select customers. Our warehouses tirelessly have been working throughout Covid. Kudos to our warehouse teams globally. We are proud [...]
6 Reasons Why Near-Sourcing is NOT a Sustainable Solution A Special for Report Buyers, Planners, Sourcing Specialists, and Supply Chain Professionals Executive Summary NearSourcing is a strategy. Like any strategy, it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution. It has its pros. It has its cons. So, if you think NearSourcing is a one-and-done strategy guaranteed to save [...]
MES President & CEO Hiten Shah Featured in Value Walk Magazine Hiten Shah, a Plastics Engineer, is a name not unknown in the corporate world. He is the founder of MES Inc., a globally-known full-service provider of manufacturing and supply chain management. The company that came into the picture in 2007 started as a marketing and engineering [...]
Delivering at the Speed of Light & Overcoming Big Obstacles In the world of aluminum die casting, tiny tweaks and small changes are all in a day’s work. Add an engineering change here, a quality inspection there. After all, one of the most-touted benefits of die casting is fast production rates and speeds. Under normal [...]
Critical Aspects of Design for Electric Vehicles There are incredible options and innovations going on in the EV market. Different companies are going down their unique paths. Companies, large and small, as well as many start-ups, are engaged in Battery technologies, motor technologies, and transmissions. There is a lot of work being done in hydrogen [...]