Saphineia Manufacturing Partners

Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Best Practices For The Middle Market

Unlock your profit potential

Saphineia combines nearly 300 years of hands-on, cross-functional manufacturing and supply chain experience with 40 years of direct buyside investing experience to help manufacturers sustainably improve operational performance.

Unlock your profit potential

Saphineia combines nearly 300 years of hands-on, cross-functional manufacturing and supply chain experience with 40 years of direct buyside investing experience to help manufacturers sustainably improve operational performance.

We're Not Career Consultants.
We're Manufacturing Practitioners.

Our team consists of experienced manufacturing practitioners from leading food & beverage manufacturers, including P&G, Unilever, Tyson, Keurig Dr. Pepper, Mars, Wrigley, Kraft and Hearthside.  We know what good looks like — and we’ve built our business to bring this know-how to the middle market.

We Speak Your Language.

The individuals on the Saphineia team have spent their careers in food and beverage manufacturing and have the cross-functional skills and expertise to partner with your team to implement sustainable solutions.

Solutions That Maximize Margins And Reduce Risk For:

Manufacturers | Private Equity | Lenders

Facing these Challenges?

  • Low or deteriorating gross margins
  • High levels of scrap or overfill
  • Large inventory write-offs
  • Equipment reliability
  • Unreliable data
  • Significant planned and unplanned downtime
Our Operational Excellence solutions are for you.

Facing these Challenges?

  • Insufficient visibility into SKU profitability

  • Difficulty accurately costing and pricing new products

  • Keeping standards up to date with shop-floor reality

Our Product Costing & SKU Profitability solutions are for you.

Facing these Challenges?

  • Establishing a strong quality & food safety culture

  • Preparing for SQF or regulatory audits

  • Your plant doesn’t ‘show well’ to potential customers

  • Rework, returns and damages

Our Quality & Food Safety solutions are for you.

Facing these Challenges?

  • Too much inventory

  • Large inventory write-offs

  • Managing your warehouse and outside storage

  • Optimizing procurement spend

  • Contract manufacturers and supplier reliability

  • Planning & scheduling

Our Supply Chain solutions are for you.

Facing these Challenges?

  • Surfacing key risks early in the process

  • Identifying operational valuation creation opportunities

  • Tying manufacturing performance to financial results

  • Quantifying excess capacity

  • Estimating SKU profitability

  • Communicating the operational upside when exiting

Our Transaction Support solutions are for you.

Facing these Challenges?

  • Delivering projects on-time and on-budget

  • Starting up new equipment

  • Launching new products

  • Resourcing large projects

  • Executing facility consolidation

Our Project Execution solutions are for you.

Our Mission: To Help Our Clients Achieve Sustainable Improvements In Operational Performance & Profitability

We’re so confident, we’ll guarantee it.​

If project goals are not met within the original timeframe, Saphineia either continues work at no extra cost until targets are achieved or refunds a portion of the fee to maintain the agreed-upon ROI.

To further align our interests with our clients’, a portion of our compensation is dependent on the improvements exceeding the guaranteed amount after project completion – because if the improvements don’t stick, we’ve failed!

Ongoing post-project remote support is included at no additional cost.