StartUp Services

Our team of specialists and consultants can customize our services to meet your unique requirements, below is a list of some of the services we typically provide to our customers who wish to establish their own manufacturing operation in Mexico

Project Feasibility
Business Requirements Analysis
Pre-Operational Requirements

 

Project Feasibility

We know that your business is unique, our experienced team by making a preliminary review of your business plan for a establishing in Mexico, can provide invaluable insight on the specific issues and challenges you will experience in Mexico.

As part of this assessment we will travel to your existing manufacturing facility, meet with the project team and all the people that will be involved in it, to review the products and the processes planed. from this review we will provide a general assessment of the proposed project including:

• Real Estate. Location, cost, availability
• Feasibility of processes
• Labor issues to meet project requirements
• US and Mexican customs issues and considerations
• Financial issues, cost savings and major costs
• Human Resources requirements

This project feasibility assessment will give you a high-level indication of what can be achieved by setting up a manufacturing facility in Mexico, as had been the case for many companies, or might reveal that Mexico is NOT an option for your company.

 

Business Requirements Analysis

In this activity we will be making a detailed analysis of the manufacturing processes and business requirements that will be needed and important to set a successful operation in Mexico. This analysis will include all physically requirements for the facility; calculations of utilities requirements; initial layout drawings. The result of this analysis will result in a facilities requirements report, that describes the requirements for land, building and infrastructure that will give us the criteria for the Site Search and will be used to evaluate potential locations. This analysis considers such factors as:

• Real estate and facilities requirements
• Human Resources Requirements
• Logistics and Distribution System
• Customer and Supplier base
• Legal and regulatory requirements

With all the information gathered form your project team and our team, we will generate a Site Selection Matrix, which summarize all the business requirements and their weighted importance, this matrix will then be used by our team to search and prepare a comparative evaluation of cites and cities.

 

Pre-Operational Requirements

One of the most time consuming and complex tasks in the start up of a corporation in Mexico is obtaining the registration, licenses and permits required for a manufacturing operation. Working in conjunction with your team we will gather and submit all the required paperwork to obtain such licenses or permits in the proper sequence, failure to obtain any of these can have costly consequences.

The purpose of this service is to let your team concentrate on the technical challenges of initiating a new facility while we deal with the intricacies of all legal and administrative requirements to be compliant by mexican law. Permits, licenses and registrations to include

• Register names with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE)
• Define legal company structure.
• Create company by-Laws
• Determine General power of attorney.
• Register with Tax authority.
• Register to Employee welfare programs
  • IMSS
  • INFONAVIT
  • SAR
• Customs Import/export
  • Create and register Maquila or PYEX contract.
  • Create and register any sector permit PROSEC.
  • Propose Mexican and US Customs brokers.
  • Implement de I/E software that complies with annex 24 of commerce rules.
• Chose Union and Union leader to work with.
  • Create labor collective contract
  • Register contract with court
• Human Resources
  • Create localized job descriptions
  • Design wage and benefits structure
  • Create internal policies and procedures
  • Design Individual Labor contracts
  • Recruit and submit for client approval of Plant Manager
  • Recruit and submit for client approval of HR manager
  • Train HR manager
  • Assist HR manager to recruit personnel
• Environmental
  • Obtain specific land use permit
  • Prepare and submit Environmental impact study.
  • Obtain operations licence (If needed)
  • Review hazardous waste storage, assure legal compliance.
• Health permit.
• Sanitary Licence
• Water discharge permit.
• Inscriptions to appropriate local chambers of commerce or industry
• Negotiate and supervise all contract required for utilities (Power, water, Gas, etc)