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MES sources manufactured components from India, Chi-
na, Australia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Malaysia. In China,
alone, where it has two offices, it has a supplier base of
227 manufacturing companies. Two offices in India or-
der from 200 different suppliers in that country. It has
warehouses in Ohio, California, Texas, and Mexico. It has
doubled its employee count in the last year and a half
from 40 to 80 people. Its clients come predominantly
from the lighting, automotive, heavy equipment, medi-
cal, and agricultural sectors, and are generally tier-one,
OEM companies that require large supplies of “high-mix”
products. Companies that make lighting components -
housings and fixtures - comprise the largest portion of its
business. It also has some clients in the electronics and
communications sectors.
Shah describes a five-step process that MES employs in
managing its customers’ supply chain logistics. “Number
one: we help find qualified suppliers. Second is: we do all
kinds of quality audits and inspections. We don’t bring
any suppliers on unless we have an engineer that can
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