While 'best practices' and economic trends may cross industry lines, and general knowledge of good business is critical to success in the global economy—in-depth industry knowledge is key to bringing each client the best services for a specific situation. Whether you're in banking or chemicals, pharmaceuticals or computer chips, the specifics of doing business in your industry are key to your future. It’s not simply a matter of where your industry is today and where it is heading.

Manufacturing
Manufacturers face a host of challenges as they attempt to accelerate growth and maximize operational efficiencies in today’s highly complex and competitive marketplace. MVG is dedicated to helping clients in whichever manufacturing sector they operate: be it automotive, aerospace & defense, industrial equipment, metals or diversified manufacturing such as pulp & paper.

Maintaining high quality and low costs is crucial for manufacturing businesses today. Where to manufacture - and whether to outsource - are key strategic decisions that affect not only cost and quality but also flexibility, service and control. MVG helps clients make the right choices and attain leanness no matter where their operations are located. The roots of poor quality and low manufacturing productivity often can be traced back to processes that happen long before the product hits the shop floor. They begin with product line complexity, product design, scheduling and sourcing. MVG helps clients address those sources of problems and implement lean manufacturing techniques that improve productivity 20 to 40 percent.

MVG's broad-based diagnostic tools, which include comparisons with best practices and assessments of the potential of lean manufacturing techniques, identify changes that will reap the largest payoffs and the best methods of achieving them. We then help clients implement improvements, ranging from product line complexity reduction to manufacturing practices that dramatically enhance productivity.

Distribution
For most retail and wholesale distributors, the largest asset on the balance sheet is inventory.  Maximization of inventory turns and margins is essential if the company is to achieve its full profit potential.  Our typical client can typically recoup millions of dollars that are currently tied up in slow moving inventory.  Additionally, today's customers increasingly expect exceptionally high fill rates, short turnaround time, and responsive customer service.

To help our clients compete in this increasingly demanding marketplace, we focus on improving service levels while simultaneously reducing inventory assets through improved forecasting, supply chain management, and warehouse layout.

Construction And Construction-Related
Contracting is a high-risk business faced with shifting markets, changing delivery methods, tough competition, and challenges that threaten already low profit margins. MVG helps contractors create effective strategies and implementation plans to manage change and find solutions to reduce risk and increase profits. Providing management, training, and investment banking solutions to contractors is MVG’s core business. We have constantly worked with contractors to achieve their goals. Utilizing dynamic processes that include all leadership levels, we help develop and implement market-driven plans for sustained top-line growth and bottom-line profitability.

Architectural, engineering, and environmental firms have undergone a great deal of change in recent years. MVG expects that changing markets, new delivery systems, globalization, and owner demands will continue to fuel the pace of change for A/E firms. We help A/E firms understand changing markets and take advantage of market opportunities to achieve profitable growth.

Services
Effective and efficient customer service has a critical impact on customer acquisition, customer retention and cost management. Service operations that are tailored to the needs of key customer segments - while balancing quality and cost objectives - play an integral role in any company's success. MVG has done more than 1,000 projects involving branch and service-center networks, field service operations, and call centers or self-service centers. Integrating our work here with proprietary research on customer loyalty, we offer an analytical approach to understanding customer interactions and needs - the customer corridor approach - proven with best-in-class companies. Our work helps companies boost revenues 10 to 30 percent and cut costs 10 to 30 percent while improving service levels.

MVG begins by deepening a company's understanding of which customers are most profitable and what their needs are. We examine methods of differentiating service and evaluate how effective current systems are at meeting customer needs and profit objectives. We design pragmatic ways to make service more effective on all levels.

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