Is this You?

You Need to:

• Increase Throughput and Efficiency
• Reduce Labor Costs
• Cut Build Times
• Reduce Inventory
• Increase Floor Space
• Compete Globally

You Supply:

• Automotive
• Aerospace
• Agriculture
• Appliances
• Alternative Energy
• Industrial Equipment
• Medical

You Build:

• Stamping Dies
• Injection Molds
• Checking Fixtures
• Assembly and Build Systems
• Specialized Machinery

MescoPak™ can help you

Value Proposition

The Traditional Way

The Typical Material Management Paradigm
The traditional process requires communicating with several suppliers and receiving materials and components in multiple shipments. This method is labor-intensive and fraught with redundancies, backorders, and returns. It lacks organization and wastes valuable time, human resources, and floor space.

It costs a lot of money.

In fact, labor and other overhead are 60 to 70 percent of a typical tool builder’s costs according to The Center for Automotive Research.

The Mesco Way

The MescoPak Value Proposition
As your logistics partner, MescoPak^TM improves your labor efficiency by 30% or more. We handle the procurement and delivery of materials so you can dramatically improve efficiency, asset utilization, and throughput. We streamline the process and enable lean manufacturing practices in environments that are historically lean-prohibitive. And, we enforce your blanket pricing and engineering standards.

Key Financial Benefits of MescoPak

Income Statement (Profitability)

• Labor Efficiencies In:
  • Skilled Trades
  • Expediting
  • Manufacturing Support
  • Receiving
  • Accounts Payable

Balance Sheet (Asset Utilization)

• Machine Utilization
• Floor Space Availability
• Inventory Reductions in:
  • Raw Materials
  • Work In Process
  • Finished Goods

Success Stories

Miller: How it saves you money

Miller Tool & Die Company based in Jackson, Michigan, needed to reduce bottom-line costs. It partnered with Mesco for Integrated Material Solutions. Using MescoPak, in less than six months, Miller’s non-value-added time on machine builds dropped almost 78 percent. The company’s before-after comparison found a savings of 500 man-hours in its receiving warehouse. Additionally, using MescoPak freed up 50 percent more floor space. As a result, Miller can build more tools - and for less cost.

Insights on efficiency

Leverage the efficiency of skilled trade labor - and finish more jobs
“So much time is wasted sourcing. The key is to get the parts on the dock, and get the products out the door, as efficiently as possible. That’s throughput. The more efficient we get, the more machines we can build. It’s about whole-system efficiency. It’s about speed to market.”

Materials carefully and precisely packaged
“The MescoPaks are easy to manage and work with. I look at my blueprint, and it tells me what I need. I just go right to my box where everything is clearly labeled - it’s grab and go. We’ve seen non-value added time literally reduced from 325 to 15 hours.”

Savings on front-office costs
“With MescoPak, it’s one supplier, one quote, one purchase order, one bill to pay. We’re looking at least another 100 hours saved in administrative costs.”

Inventory - Just-In-Time
“Before, we’d put excess inventory and parts in a storage room - it was chaotic. Things would get lost. Now, we don’t have all of that inventory on site, so it’s less to keep track of, and less to get misplaced. We’ve freed up the storage room and this space will become profitable, working space. And our customers now see an organized shop, which leaves a lasting impression. We’re able to offer better service because we’ve gone in this lean direction. …We work a lot with the Michigan Manufacturing & Technical Center and the Center for Automotive Research - and they’re preaching the exact same thing. Some businesses take full advantage of lean practices, but other ones, they lose by doing it the old way. We realized there was a better way. We saw MescoPaks as the solution.

Benefits

Commodity Expertise

Mesco’s customers include leading global tool builders and manufacturers. We know the unique challenges manufacturers face in the internationally competitive market.

• We have strong relationships with leading tooling component makers.
• We understand engineering standards and the impact on build processes.
• We swiftly plug into dynamic, compressed construction schedules.
• We know how to efficiently process long-lead material orders and engineering changes.

Additional Benefits

• Tool makers emphatically embrace the pack process.
• Significantly reduced trips to Receiving, Purchasing, and the Stockroom.
• One consistent point of contact.
• Prompt responses to hot-spot buys, emergencies, and the changes that occur in the build environment.
• Increases in plant throughput and efficiency.
• One supplier to manage.
• A single purchase order to create and follow.
• One shipment to receive and one payment to make,which allows the customer to focus on manufacturing.
• Inventory is reduced, floor space is freed up.
• Unused material is removed, eliminating the buildup of waste, excess, and obsolete material.
• The savings in time, money, and floor space means more can be built.

A better bottom line.