Realize Your Mobility

Potential

Gain expertise and funding to improve your business

The Supply Chain Transformation Center (STC) provides qualified manufacturers with a highly experienced team and 50/50 cost share of matching funds for technical assistance projects, up to $100,000. This combination of funding and expertise can prepare your business for success in the rapidly changing mobility economy. Our team will help you stabilize, diversify, grow, and responsibly succeed.

STC is organized at U of M’s Economic Growth Institute. Manufacturers in the Greater Detroit region are encouraged to review the program requirements below and engage with our team to identify leverage points where these funds can strengthen your organization.

Mobility is Changing

The automotive and transportation industries are at a crossroads with the transition to electric, autonomous, and new mobility technologies. You:

Have faced extreme stress from the pandemic and supply chain disruptions

See the transition into electric and autonomous and want to move into the future

Are ready to retire and need to develop an exit strategy

Know your workforce or your company are at risk if you don’t adapt

The STC can help you evolve, build on your expertise, and look toward a future of innovation and sustainability.

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Your Business

Should Change, Too!

Take Advantage of Programs and Expertise to result in a more agile conversation. The STC program can help fund projects including (but not limited to):

Sales and marketing strategy
Website development
ERP and MRP implementation
EV teardown
Market diversification

Leadership development
Growth strategies
Skill development
Technology acceleration
Cybersecurity

Leverage our Experts

The Economic Growth Institute at the University of Michigan is an outward facing group that has been part of the university for more than 40 years. The core of what we work toward every day is equitable economic growth for local, state, and national economies by working with small- and medium-sized enterprises and communities. The STC program is run through EGI, supported by the Global Epicenter of Mobility (GEM) initiative. GEM will create a smart, secure, sustainable, and inclusive advanced-mobility industry, starting with the transition to next-generation electric, autonomous, and fully connected vehicles. As part of the grant, we collaborate with Detroit Regional Partnership, Techtown Detroit, SEMCA Michigan Works!, and the Michigan Office of Future Mobility & Electrification.

The team at EGI is committed to the success of our program participants. We leverage our partnerships to provide technical assistance to enhance the future of mobility.

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Eligible Counties of Southeast Michigan

Accelerate Your Business

We need to meet certain requirements for the grant program participants, but if you are unsure, please submit the form and we’ll help determine eligibility.

Requirements:

Less than 500 employees
Operations in any of the following counties: Genesee, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Shiawassee, St. Clair, Washtenaw, or Wayne

Other Qualifiers:

At least 10% of annual business revenue from the mobility sector currently or within the last 5 years, or demonstrate a critical potential to address a particular need in the advanced mobility supply chains

*Priority given to companies in the ICE supply chain considered at high risk for disruption of historically excluded communities (HECs), those located in these communities, or those with clear leadership commitments to DEI