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motive business, because that’s going to keep us sharp
in our quality and supply chain methods. China was 95
percent of our sources two years back; this year, it’s prob-
ably going to be under 70; we want China to be under
40 percent of our global resources. There are a lot of ag-
riculture business opportunities that we want to chase,
and light industrial. And then we’re also trying to develop
across more commodities, so we want more copper, and
more forgings rather than just castings, which has been
a dominant portion until a year or two back.”
Finally, Shah outlines MES’ three ongoing missions: “One
is: win-win engineering solutions for our customers; sec-
ond is: creating a challenging and exciting work environ-
ment for our associates, globally; and third is developing
quality suppliers across the globe. In five years from now,
we could be buying from Africa or from Latin America. So
we’ll chase down wherever the best suppliers are and
spend time and energy developing relationships with
them, developing their quality systems, and focusing
on our customers’ issues. We want to be an extremely
energized and engaged-workforce company that is very
aggressively focused on its customers, and not bashful
about going into any country or any suppliers where we
think we can get good cost, quality and delivery. We want
it all,” he admits.
Now, really, how hard can it be?
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