Mark joins New England Suppliers Institute

Starts working with Sherry Gordon with whom later starts Valuedge,
Inc.

NESI was funded primarily through a Technology Reinvestment Program grant administered through the Air Force. We served hun dress of small and medium manufacturers throughout New England. The focus was on introducing what were at the time relatively new ideas about lean manufacturing (re-tread from Toyota’s manufacturing philosophy Toyota Production System (TPS) and other high performance business systems.

Along the way Sherry and Mark got involved with John Martin at Chadwick, Martin, & Bailey in Boston on the design of a data-driven supplier assessment tool. It was successfully piloted but abandoned because it was a cumbersome manual process. Later brought back to life through web-based tools by Sherry and Mark at their company Valuedge.