Partners

Our talented team of partners have real-world experience in all aspects of the automotive and manufacturing communities. Together with their strategic guidance and state-of-the-art analysis tools, we transform a company's operations and develop best practices.

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KEPNER-TREGOE (KT) provides consulting and training services to organizations throughout the world. KT collaborates with clients to implement their strategies by embedding problem-solving, decision-making, and project execution methods through individual and team skill development, issue resolution, and process improvement. Founded in 1958, KT collaborates with many of the most successful companies in the world, helping them build competitive advantage by using the systematic KT methods. Organizations benefit from using KT’s common-logic, common-process approach to set priority, resolve key issues, and achieve strategic and operational improvements. KT offices and affiliated organizations are located throughout the world.

Advanced Purchasing Dynamics (APD) was founded in 2004 with the mission of helping manufacturing companies profoundly expand their procurement skills. Since then, the Plymouth, Michigan-based consultancy has helped numerous clients achieve accelerated and sustainable reductions in material costs while developing and strengthening their purchasing organizations.

Manufacturer’s Association of Plastics Processors, Inc. (MAPP) provides members with plastics processing training, industry networking opportunities, cost reduction programs, lead generation strategies and opportunities, operational benchmarking statistics and plastics news. MAPP's mission is to help plastic processors stay competitive in an ever-changing plastics marketplace.