MEP CENTER SUPPORT

Work With the Business Impact Partner for MEP Centers

VEREO Impact partners with MEP centers to help them make a substantial difference in their clients' operations with proven tools and systems.

Our team has more than 50 years of direct MEP center management experience, as well as over 200 years of combined experience in business and operations management, Lean, supply chain management, and human resources. Our methods, products, and services have not only transformed hundreds of MEP clients’ businesses, but MEP centers themselves.

We work with MEP Centers as a third party extension of their teams, but also offer licensing and training on our proprietary operations products.

4 ways to partner with Us

1. Become Certified in Assessing Business Needs

Learn how to assess a company’s performance and develop an improvement plan using the proprietary Business Excellence Assessment and its built-in Straight6 optimization model. These tools will help you confidently walk into any manufacturing business and identify pain points, help align leadership to strategy, scale to new demand, or position the organization for sale.

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2. License VEREO’s Proprietary Content

Take the grunt work out of developing your own products and programs. Our content is the sum of decades of manufacturing experience and has been used to help 500+ companies achieve their objectives. See the full list of content topics:

Strategy

  • Take it to 10
  • How to create a strategy
  • Strategy to Action
  • How to put your strategy into action to create a plan and how to execute the plan
  • Create a Culture Transformation
  • How to manage change

Structure

  • Align Structure to Achieve Strategy
  • Single-Point Accountability and Decision Making

People Systems

  • Optimize Leader Performance
  • Leader standard work
  • Role Design
  • Create clear accountabilities, responsibilities, and metrics
  • Create a quarterly evaluation plan with corrective actions
  • Compensation Modeling
  • Look at statewide data and create compensation bands for individual roles and career pathways

Lateral Processes

  • Optimize Tactical Performance
  • How to implement huddles and constraint operations
  • On average, this content yields a 20% improvement in cost, quality, output, and morale

Metrics

  • Transformational Performance Measures
  • Create a set of performance metrics that run from the strategy all the way to individuals

Methods and Tools

  • Lean Manufacturing
  • Value Stream Mapping
  • 5S
  • Standard Work
  • Setup Reduction
  • Kaizen Events
  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • Materials Management
  • Kanban systems, inventory controls, production schedules
  • Quality Systems & Tools
  • Six Sigma, DMAIC, SPC, FMEA, DFMA, Fishbone/Cause and Effect, ISO
  • Training Within Industry (TWI)

Supply Chain

  • Supply Chain Strategy
  • Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management
  • Proficiency in Supply Chain Management
  • Understanding Total Cost of Ownership
  • Total Cost of Ownership Reduction
  • Includes a simulation and TCO calculator
  • Vendor Negotiations
  • Vendor Contracting
  • Assessing Supply Chain Risks

People Systems and Workforce Attraction/Retention

  • Assessing and Hiring Talent
  • Onboarding and Training New Hires
  • Managing the Performance of the Whole Person
  • Growing Capability Through Goal Setting and a Quarterly Evaluation System
  • Career and Compensation Growth
  • Succession Management and Planning
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3. MEP Center Operations Consulting
MEP Center Support Services
Operations Consulting

Implement a new business model, grow your sales skills, or expand your center’s capabilities–for starters.

Business Strategy

Identify a strategy that helps you achieve the 3 Success Factors and transform your organization.

Operating Systems

Learn how to use Salesforce as a tool to manage center operations with custom coding, management dashboards, and predictive impact features.

Organizational Design

Define the best organizational structure to achieve your strategy, and learn what it takes to attract and retain great talent. Sales staff complete Flawless Sales Training and the delivery team completes Flawless Consulting Training.

VEREO Impact is a team with extensive MEP and industry experience. While we are passionate about getting our hands dirty with growing businesses, we also work hard to strengthen MEP centers nationwide, exceeding the expectations of NIST MEP while creating a revenue stream that’s independent of state or federal funding.

Work with us and you will achieve these 3 Success Factors: company count, center revenue, and most importantly client impact.

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4. Third-Party Delivery Resource

Need a few extra hands to serve your manufacturing clients? We have reputable talent who will fit seamlessly with your team to deliver work that makes an impact. Contract with us to deliver in-house engagements, trainings, and more.

Services are available based on the proprietary content offerings listed.

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