VPMEP's Strategic Management Services (SMS) practice offers a full range of executive advisory, tax abatement and operating expense reduction assistance to help your organization identify, plan for, implement, and manage strategic and organizational changes that will make your company more profitable and competitive in today's global marketplace.

Strategic Advisor Services provide the client with guaranteed access to a highly skilled, knowledgeable, and broadly experienced individual who, due to the high cost of salary and benefits would be cost-prohibitive to employ on a full-time basis compared to the amount of time that these skills would be utilized. Optional services from which the client can create the customized program are:

• Enterprise Assessment uses a combination of dialogue and analytical tools to understand the issues and opportunities facing the company for the purpose finding, and prioritizing solutions that will provide the greatest improvement in performance and return on investment.
• Strategic Policy: Deployment Planning - This service assists senior management with the development of appropriate organizational vision, mission and values; assessment of the competitive environment and company capabilities; evaluation of alternative strategies; and guides the development of balanced strategic goals.
• Meeting Facilitation service provides expert facilitators to help you objectively and comprehensively work through issues and opportunities facing your firm.
• Management Coaching service provides access to a resource that becomes a trusted advisor to top management to provide objective advice and feedback to the executive to help them make sound business decisions.

• Marketing Assessment service provides the firm with a review of its approaches to markets and customers, and makes recommendations for improvements that will strengthen sales and profitability.
• Marketing Plan & Sales Development service provides a detailed analysis of current sales methods and then looks for improvements to stabilize and standardize the process.

Finance & Taxation Services provide the small manufacturing business owner with ways to the tax implications of current and future business decisions. The goal is to lower the owner's present and future tax bills as a means to improve earnings and owners equity. The service is targeted at firms with more than $5 million dollars in sales. The following list is just some of the services available:

• Business & Property Tax Abatement Assessment
• Business Valuation
• Succession Planning
• Acquisition & Divestiture Planning

Utility & Telecom Services provide clients with the opportunity to significantly reduce the expense of their utilities and telecommunications costs.

IT & eBusiness Services provide clients with expert solutions to reduce the cost of maintaining their information system infrastructure by providing support for the selection of appropriate enterprise software, and IT system management solutions.

Enterprise Software Selection Assistance service assists your firm in determining the needs and requirements of your organization for a comprehensive MRP/ERP/CRM software solution to run your business.