1. Strategic Alignment - Our supply chain consultants build a model with your team to tactically deploy your supply chain initiative.

2. Metrics - Performance measures for success and baselines are established.

3. Supplier Selection - We work with you to select those companies that match your long term strategy.

4. Building Supplier & Customer Commitment - VPMEP will conduct on-site, interactive workshops with your customer and supplier representatives to demonstrate how Lean deployment benefits the entire supply chain.

5. Assessment - Using proprietary 360vu tools, VPMEP and partner centers will assess your supplier's current state and improvement potential.

6. Supplier Lean Deployment - VPMEP and partner centers using 360vu tools will build your supplier's Lean capabilities through on-site awareness workshops, Value Stream Mapping, and Kaizen Improvements such as 5S, Set-up Reduction, Cellular Flow, Office Lean, Total Productive Maintenance, Mistake Proofing, and Kan Ban.

7. Extended Value Stream Mapping Linkage - VPMEP will assist your internal Lean teams to build linkages with key suppliers, reducing non-value added activities throughout the extended Value Stream.

8. Sustainment - Locally deployed MEP consultants are ready to provide ongoing support to your supplier's improvement needs today and tomorrow.

Q. Are your suppliers aligned with your company's lean journey?
A. Probably not.

Q. What competitive advantages is your company missing?

• Dramatically improved quality
• Lead time compression
• Consistent on-time deliveries
• Working capital reduction
• Material costs savings
• World class make-to-order responsiveness
• Enhanced product and information flow
• Faster order to cash cycle

Q. How does your company assure success today and tomorrow?
A. By deploying VPMEP's Supply Chain Management Solutions - built through partnership, world class agility, and competitiveness.