Adhesive Packaging Specialties, Inc. (APS), MA, custom packages one- and two-component adhesives, sealants and resins including acrylic, anaerobic materials, conductives, epoxy, polysulfides, polyurethanes, UV curable and other polymers.

Steve Buchanan, President and CEO of APS mentioned in one of the earlier meetings that his complexity was huge – thousands of products and a customer matrix which made their material availability and procurement a challenge; these posed problems in scheduling and stretched them in all aspects to maintain good service levels. In addition, they had tried previous IT solutions but were unsuccessful. They were hesitant initially to share their data but found value in BRG solutions and decided to go ahead.

He shared with us the benefits of using our product CompreView^TM

Bob Kot, VP & General Manager, MTI Instruments Inc, NY, a worldwide supplier of precision, non-contact physical measurement solutions and monitoring systems asked us to conduct a market study to determine the market for one specialized line of instrumentation to help them better implement their commercial strategy.

BRG team had to understand the manufacturing process of the target focus -- approximate capacity per line, volume of output, location of sites per country, investment infusion per country, regulatory changes and other attributes to help them understand the market. Primary research through interviews with industrial experts and secondary market research tools were used to collect the data.

Bob shared his comments after the BRG team completed the assignment: