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MHI: Membership Benefits – Material Handling for All

By Alex Batty, MHI Marketing Communications Coordinator |@mhi_alex

Topic number three has arrived – and I still don’t have a series name. I’ve been workshopping things like “MHI Awesomeness” and “MHI is the bomb.com”, but focus groups feel these titles miss the gravitas of the subject matter. Either way,  the series is here, it’s progressing, and it’s (hopefully) informative.

If you missed the first post, you can find our post here on What is MHI and the second, two-part topic starts at MHI: Departments, Programs, and All That Jazz.

This week’s post is on the benefits that membership in MHI can bring to companies. MHI has over 800 member companies that are provided opportunities and exposure that are second to none. Membership gives you the advantages you need to excel in the $156 billion material handling and logistics industry. By being a member, business relationships, friendships, alliances and partnerships are formed for the greater success of everyone.

Still not convinced and want to see why it’s so cool to be a part of MHI? It’s time to get specific. (Long post is long, but there are so many benefits! Pictures included to break up the text.)

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MHI produces two of the largest material handling, logistics and supply chain trade events in North America – ProMat and MODEX. Membership in MHI offers significant discounts to price per square foot at our shows. The trade shows are great for on-the-floor speaking opportunities for exhibitors and interactive, value-added sales training courses for sales professionals showing in our expos.

Online and Social Media

As part of your MHI membership, you get a complimentary microsite listing on MHI.org, with up to 10MB of library space, which provides valuable exposure to over 800,000 material handling, logistics and supply chain buyers annually. Other benefits include:

  • • URL link to your company website
  • • Download free literature and case studies
  • • Free placement of Member news releases, white pages and case studies
  • • Opportunity to write guest articles on our MHI blog that will go out in our MHI Industry News e-blast to 80,000 material handling and supply chain professionals

Online Business Planning Community

The Business Planning Community offers strategic planning and economic resources for the material handling and supply chain industries. The Business Planning Community includes access to:

  • • The Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing (MHEM) Forecast and quarterly webinar hosted by Jason Schenker, President of Prestige Economics
  • • The MHI Business Activity Index (BAI), a monthly sentiment survey that captures changes in material handling business dynamics
  • • The MHI Market Analysis Toolkit (MHI-MAT) that enables an analyst to estimate the geographic dispersion of markets in the United States, Canada and Mexico
  • • The Annual Rate of Change Calculator (ARoc), which creates forecasting graphs using a combination of your company’s data, economic indicators and MHEM Actual and Forecast Data
  • • Publications
  • • A free subscription to our MHI Solutions quarterly magazine
  • • Access to MHI’s Annual Industry Report, developed in collaboration with Deloitte, which reflects the views of nearly 900 industry insiders
  • • Access to the U.S. Material Handling & Logistics Roadmap, an action plan written for the logistics and supply chain industry
  • • Discounted rates on certain industry specifications

Industry Group Membership

MHI Member companies have the opportunity to join any of MHI’s Product or Solutions Groups (additional fees apply).

Product Groups share information and conduct research to stay at the forefront of their vertical industry. Typical Product Group activities include: industry statistics collection, standards development, technical publications, public relations, safety and education.

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Solutions Groups bring MHI members together with equipment and systems users to collaborate and address common challenges and opportunities in manufacturing and the supply chains in a “safe harbor” environment.

Networking Opportunities

You can make contact with other industry professionals/leaders and meet potential partners at our yearly Spring Meeting and Annual Conference. Members also get access to the MHI Executive Summit – this exclusive, invitation-only event only allows 50 member-suppliers and 50 user executives to attend. Members also get exclusive access to MHI Young Professionals Network events and activities.

Discounts & Advertising

Members have discounts & savings available for special events as well as advertising opportunities on our websites, at our trade shows, and in our publications, and access to MHI press database of almost 1,000 editors and publishers. MHI Members receive Vantiv credit card processing at a low cost.

Use of MHI Facility in Charlotte

Members can use the MHI facility in Charlotte, NC, which provides a professional setting for sales meetings or client presentations. The 12-15 person capacity rooms are subject to availability.

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International Opportunities

MHI works to building worldwide awareness and recognition of the importance of the specific work of MHI and material handling. MHI promotes the North American Material Handling market via media placement and participation in international trade fairs including CeMat Hannover, ExpoCarga in Mexico City, SITL in Paris, CeMat Asia in Shanghai, and Logimat in Stuttgart.

Access to the “Workforce of the Future”

MHI Education & Workforce Development provides industry resources such as content and programming to address the critical need for workforce talent. The MHI career portal located on MHI.org can be used to post your organizations job needs to a focused audience. MHI also supports material handling education through the Material Handling Education Foundation, which has awarded scholarships in excess of $1.7 million.

Join MHI today! Learn more at www.mhi.org/about/join.

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