Manufacturing

Answering the ERP call with Kopis

One of the biggest headaches for a small to medium size business owner is facing the challenge of a simple accounting system. When they could be focusing on company culture or a new product, they are stuck shifting needlessly between spreadsheets trying to balance their books, but…


Don’t Regulate; Innovate!

Industry pros say regulations are hurting creativity. What if legislators placed heavy design restrictions on the automotive or aerospace industries? What if engineers at Tesla or Boeing saw their research capabilities reduced to a small palette of less-creative, material options? Electric vehicles and fuel-efficient airliners outfitted with…


SCMFG Company & Employee Profile Highlights Jamie Rohrer of USI Insurance

Jamie Rohrer is a Benefits Consultant located in USI’s Greenville, South Carolina office.  Jamie is a proven advisor and business development executive with experience in employee benefits, compliance, HR, and benefits administration technology. Throughout his insurance career, Jamie has worked successfully with mid-market clients and companies, both fully insured and self insured programs, he help […]


COVID-19 Spurs Digital Transformation in Marketing Industry

Letter From the Publisher: Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, face-to-face meetings, trade shows, plant tours and just about every other external business activity have all been suspended until the threat is over. So, how are businesses adapting? How are they getting new clientele? In the education world…


Classroom Training has Become Obsolete

It was Monday morning, March 16, 2020 and you had just been told that beginning on Wednesday, March 18th everyone will begin to work from home.  You previously scheduled your team for a training session to be held on April 6, 2020 in the company’s training facility. …


SCETV and Toppe Bros. Partner on Workforce Show

For too long South Carolina has lagged in workforce development, leaving our state short on skilled hands, headquartered companies, research, and development. THE ANSWER: An incumbent workforce of native South Carolinians, grown and nurtured inside one of our 46 counties, educated in our public schools and in our…


What is the one thing that inhibits a manufacturer’s ability to make money?

All for-profit businesses exist to make money.  Manufacturers do this by producing and selling a product.  What is the one thing that inhibits a manufacturer’s ability to make money? The answer is variation.  Variation negatively impacts a manufacturer’s business results whether it relates to safety, reliability, quality,…


GADC: Greenville County Adding First Major “Class A” Business Park in Over a Decade

Virtual Annual Meeting “Draws” Hundreds GREENVILLE, S.C. – June 16, 2020 – The Greenville Area Development Corporation (GADC), charged with promoting and enhancing quality of life in Greenville County by facilitating job growth and investment, today announced a positive economic outlook accented by the addition of Fox Hill Business Park in Fountain Inn — the […]


Successful businesses do “what they have to do”

Successful businesses do “what they have to do.”  One thing they “have to do” is remain properly positioned in their clients’ mind. It’s hard to talk, write or think about any business topic without filtering it through the temporarily ever-present “pandemic.”  Collectively, we hear about and applaud…


THE LANDSCAPE OF TODAY’S WORKFORCE

As employers face the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, Human Resource and Talent Acquisition efforts are being scrutinized in ways like never before. Now, more than ever, we need to evaluate the landscape of our workforce and consider making changes and adjustments that will encourage culture strength, internal growth,…