Description

West Michigan Tooling Coalition (WMTC) is a coalition of West Michigan companies providing a full range of services to the tool and die industry. Our mission is to offer broad, multifaceted tooling support to North American companies that exceed customer expectations and provide a framework which encourages cooperation with the Coalition. Its purpose is to aggressively pursue programs capitalizing on Coalition strengths, developing synergistic cost-reduction opportunities, and by offering long term performance improvements by: 1). Joint sales and marketing efforts, 2). Providing work load balance, 3). Developing standardized process, 4). Providing purchase economies of scale, 5). Encouraging R & D innovation, 6). Offering comprehensive and effective program/project management, 7). Standardizing tooling standards, 8). Seeking long term customer relationships that will help WMTC to provide technological knowledge to our customers to aid them in reducing costs, 9). Overseeing services to our customers by providing high production tooling (i.e. first time quality, change over time, cycle time, etc.)

·       Strength and efficiency of a coalition – Economies of Scales & Breadth of Capabilities

·       Economic advantages of sourcing related parts together – Functional Build & Project Management

·       Increased competition of local tooling suppliers – Sustain Critical Supply Base

·       Simpler sourcing option for customers with large programs – Multiple Tools + Multiple Companies = One Purchase Order

Specific collaborative activities supported by WMTC that provide synergistic advantages are:

A) Sales and Marketing

B) Standard Processes

   C) Tooling Standards

D) Project Management

E)  Member Company Specialization

The collaborative business model practiced by the WMTC is in response to today’s changing environment for how customers are working with tooling suppliers. It addresses lowering system costs and improving suppliers and customers performance by exploiting individual company specialties from an overall system perspective. This model is seen as a long term solution to insuring our respective competitiveness.

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Last modified:05.12.08