Training For Results

These programs are designed to provide SPECIFIC and PRACTICAL techniques that focus participants on the mastery of management and technical skills that will lead to improved working capital results. Participants learn relevant and immediately useful skills at a reasonable price without losing valuable time from work.

Cost-of-Goods-Sold reductions, operating expense reductions, inventory reductions, accounts receivables collection improvements and supplier payment improvements are a few topic areas in this training series.

These programs are designed to provide SPECIFIC and PRACTICAL techniques that focus on how to balance supply and demand through improved forms of master production scheduling, sales forecasting and supply/demand reconciliations.

Forecasters, Master Production Schedulers, Sales Managers, Marketing Managers and operations management professionals will find knowledge from this series helpful as they work to manage customer demands and factory supply.

These programs are designed to provide hands-on training in the application of LEAN manufacturing, distribution and infrastructure improvement tools.

KanBan techniques, Kaizen methods, Value Stream Mapping, 5S methods, policy deployment, aligned performance metrics, standardized work, Poka-Yoke methods, work simplification techniques, Six Sigma, "Autonomation," SMED, Cost-of-Quality analysis, Taguchi methods and more are included in these programs.

Participants learn relevant and immediately useful skills that can be applied to waste elimination, process improvement and cost reduction initiatives.

These programs are designed to provide ongoing governance related topics of interest to members of private company Boards of Directors, Owners, Senior Executives and professionals who serve Boards of Directors.

Topics explored include risk management, Director selection, Board organization issues, committee structures, governance principles, Board reporting requirements, interface with management, Director duty-of-care obligations, Management compensation structure and oversight, individual Director conduct, shareholder reporting, Director compensation, Board transparency and Board of Directors conduct and ethical considerations.

Participants learn relevant and immediately useful information from the instructors and have ample opportunity to interact with other participants.

MEI and our skilled alliance partners, provide a full compliment of project management training. This training is offered in several formats including fundamentals, role-playing and project simulation formats. Each single and multi-day workshop is specifically designed to provide participants with the exact knowledge needed to successfully initiate, plan, organize, control and complete projects. Professionals who have attended one or more of our suite of “Project & Change Management Series” Workshops have learned everything needed to successfully execute both simple and complex projects.

Technical, organizational and behavioral impediments to successful and rapid deployment of project and human change management techniques are addressed in each of our programs so that participants can implement what they learn. Come to these workshops ready to learn techniques you can apply on the job the following week.

MEI offers a number of special live programs that are repeated one or more times each year. These programs are regularly updated and new programs are periodically added. Current programs include:

• Implementing Activity Based Cost Accounting (ABCA) & Leadership – a complete implementation-focused 2-day program, complete with all tools, techniques, plans and templates necessary to implement and effectively use ABCA.
• Supplier Process Engineering Fundamentals – a comprehensive 2-day program that describes, in detail, how the new Supplier Process Engineer performs his/her duties in a global supply chain world. This program is also offered in a “Virtual Classroom” format.
• Building a Winning Global Sourcing Strategy – a thorough 2-day training program that teaches procurement professionals how to build processes for sourcing the right quality supply at the lowest total cost from anywhere in the world.
• Designing & Implementing Global Business Strategies – a comprehensive 2-day overview course that teaches new global managers how to globally design product, manufacture product, source components and service customers in the global business world. This program is also offered in a “Virtual Classroom” format.
• Implementing Business Process Innovations – a 2-day, exercise and case-study driven training program that challenges conventional thinking in all functions within a manufacturing company.
• Implementing 5S In Your Factory – a 1.5 day program that presents tools, techniques and examples for the manager who plans to implement 5S techniques in a factory environment.
• Implementing Operator-Driven Statistical Process Control (SPC) – a complete 2-day workshop that teaches operators and managers how to implement and use SPC to dramatically improve manufacturing quality with little additional assistance from the QA organization.
• Symphonic ManufacturingTM – A Manufacturing Enterprise “Boot Camp” – a course like no other course you have ever attended. Participants produce actual products and redesign a physical factory over a 5 intense day period. Each day simulates a fiscal quarter and all improvements from day-to-day are valued. At the conclusion of each day, participants are informed of the change in shareholder value that resulted from the changes they implemented in their factory.