Business Consulting Services by EMB² Consulting

When it comes to Business Development and Sales, everyone is a little different with their approach. Notwithstanding these differences, there are some basic principles that should be covered. We can help with some of these basics as follows:

1) Customer Identification and Contact Methods

2) Formal Sales Plans

3) Project and Customer Suitability Determination

4) Project Specific Sales Strategies

5) Sales Call Methods 

6) Estimate Reviews and Strategies

Effective project management is one of the most important aspects of your business. A good project manager will be profitable and will be accountable for the successful performance of the project. A great project manager, however, will be your best salesperson, they will build long lasting relationships not only with customers but also vendors, subcontractors and even their coworkers.  A great project manager will always know more about their project than anyone else. They will know where their material is, where the drawings are, how the shop or field productivity rates are running and most importantly, the financial health of their project at any given time. They will also be able to identify scope changes and have the ability to pursue and secure the change orders for these events.

We offer personal or group training to quickly elevate beginning project managers and also to help good project managers become great project managers!  

Operational efficiency starts at the estimating stage. Are your estimate take-offs accurate and once the job is sold, is this information transferred to accounting and operations in a manner that ensures cost and productivity tracking accuracy and accountability? Is this information being saved and analyzed in a way that helps fine tune future estimates, leading to more sales? 

We can help with operational efficiency across departments, whether this is in the estimating stage, inter-departmental communications, cost tracking, productivity and even all the way to close-out.

Whether you are trying to develop an in-house subfab program or want to find qualified fabricators to help with your overflow, we can help. Give us a call.

Our team of experts will help your business develop, improve and implement new and existing Standard Operating Procedures that will assist your business operations flow smoother and more consistently.

We offer auditing services of your current QA program including AISC, SSPC, AWS, ASME, API and more to help streamline or solve inconsistencies in your work flow.

Our team of CWIs can help, when necessary, with inspection bottlenecks and contractual and/or specification requirements.

Unfortunately, things do not always come out perfectly. Our team can assist with identifying non-conformances and help in the  development of corrective actions along with actions to prevent recurrence in order to alleviate or eliminate errors. 

When current processes do not always achieve the desired result, we can help identify the root cause(s) that, when the corrective action is implemented, will improve the process.  

Our team can assist with inspector, welder and fitter training. 

We offer assistance with the development of written Welder Procedure Specifications (WPS) and Procedure Qualification Records (PQR).

We can assist with the development of your Welder Performance Qualification Records (WPQR) as well as verifying and documenting continuity records. 

We can help with pre-installation verfication, bolting inspections and also offer bolting consultations. 

Our team can perform source inspection services to verify the very important, and most times expensive, component you have ordered from a manufacturer meets specified and intended requirements before you receive it.