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Bridging the Lean Performance Gap

The past year has taught executives everywhere that business will never again be business-as-usual. Manufacturers, in particular, must focus more than ever on satisfying customers while removing waste and unnecessary costs from their organizations.

And they need to do so faster and better than their competitors. The eBook MPI created in partnership with Infor, Bridging the Lean Performance Gap, highlights how companies are doing that by relying on strategic Lean concepts.

Whether your company is already Lean, working to implement Lean practices, or just now awakening to the potential of Lean, this eBook helps to bridge the Lean performance gap to improve productivity, profitability and market advantage.

Visit Infor to download this eBook.

Cost of Dispensing Study

MPI and Grant Thornton, a global accounting firm, partnered to perform the largest-ever independent study of financial metrics in U.S. pharmacies. Sponsored by the Institute for the Advancement of Community Pharmacy (IACP), the study’s primary purpose was to provide a comparative analysis of prescription dispensing costs across all the states and types of payers, including Medicaid. An online database of results also provided study participants with benchmark data comparing their financial metrics and performances to state and national norms.

Data was collected from more than 23,000 pharmacies for a report consulted by legislators and regulators across the country.

Global Auto Plant Start-ups: Building a Workforce to Drive Success

MPI researched and wrote this white paper on Human Resource best practices essential to successfully launching new plants in the auto and auto component sectors. DDI, a global talent management firm, sponsored the white paper.

Forging New Partnerships: How To Thrive in Today’s Global Value Chain
MPI provided research, content development and editorial services to the National Association of Manufacturers for a book-length white paper on how smaller manufacturers can become more global. RSM McGladrey, a U.S. accounting firm, sponsored the white paper.

Manufacturing Beyond the Margin:
Changing the Customer Conversation from Price to Value

MPI researched and wrote this white paper on how manufacturers can change the customer conversation from price to value by providing a customer-value package wrapped around the core product or service. Microsoft, a global software firm, sponsored the white paper.

Going Green

How environmentally conscious practices and products present a profitable future today.

MPI provided research, content development and editorial services to Infor, a global software firm, on this white paper to help savvy executives understand the internal processes and practices that support Green reduce waste, improve efficiency and lower costs.

Fast Facts on Food Processing

MPI managed a collaboration between Grant Thornton and Food Processing magazine for a series of six bimonthly surveys — Fast Facts on Food Processing — to provide a pulse check on business performance challenges and opportunities in the food industry. MPI developed the questionnaires, analyzed the results and assisted in creating summaries for each survey, including (to date): Supply Chain Pressures, Growth Projections and Reflections, and Outsourcing: Friend or Foe?

The Wisconsin Manufacturing Study: An Analysis of Manufacturing Statewide and in Wisconsin's Seven Economic Regions

MPI conducted a year-long study of Wisconsin’s manufacturing economy, including detailed analysis of industries and regions. The study was commissioned by the Wisconsin Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

Accounting for Lean Success
Overcoming the barrier of traditional accounting in lean environments

MPI researched and wrote a white paper on the potential of lean accounting to play a larger role in by providing analysis, insight and direction to support lean improvement methodologies across all business functions. Infor, a global software firm, sponsored this white paper.

MPI created a series of eight white papers for

Microsoft Dynamics, including:

Lean Operational Improvements That Last:

From Islands of Improvement to Enterprise-Wide Excellence
Ever since Jim Womack, John Krafcik and colleagues at MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Program introduced the term “Lean Manufacturing” in 1987, thousands of companies around the world have adopted the improvement methodology and its tools. Yet despite impressive achievements by companies that have implemented Lean, many discrete manufacturers haven’t pursued Lean improvement methods and even those that have adopted Lean often realize only small, local benefits. This paper offers optimize their Lean efforts — and profitability.

Turning Toward Success for Automotive Suppliers: Lessons from the Survive-to-Thrive Guide
This timely paper discusses the crisis in the automotive industry and offers a roadmap to help the sector’s manufacturers get rolling by outlining steps they can take to manage both external pressures and internal operational challenges.

Succeeding in Today’s Industrial Equipment Markets: Leverage Your Supply Chain as a Competitive Weapon
Industrial equipment manufacturers (IEMs) face fundamental changes in the way they do business; this paper helps highlighting the new skills and tools needed to address the this changing market.

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