Saphineia Manufacturing Partners
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Best Practices For The Middle Market
Unlock your profit potential
Saphineia combines over ~400 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.
We have spent our 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
- Poor Equipment reliability
- Unreliable data
- Significant planned and unplanned downtime
Facing these Challenges?
Surfacing key risks early in the acquisition/sale process
- Building operational elements of your Value Creation Plan
Tying manufacturing performance to financial results
Accurately estimating excess capacity
- Identifying deferred maintenance capex
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
- Successfully integrate acquisitions and realize synergies
Launching new products
Resourcing large projects
Executing facility consolidation
Our Project Planning & Execution 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
- Effectively managing your co-mans
Planning & scheduling
Our Supply Chain solutions are for you.
Facing these Challenges?
- Significant rework, returns and damages
- High number of customer complaints
- Insufficient know-how in your Q&FS department
Establishing a strong quality & food safety culture
Preparing for SQF or regulatory audits
Your plant doesn’t ‘show well’ to potential customers
Our Quality & Food Safety 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 Mission: To Help Our Clients Achieve Sustainable Improvements In Operational Performance & Profitability
We’re so confident, we’ll guarantee it.
- Performance Guarantee
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.
- Gain Share
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!
- Performance Guarantee
Ongoing post-project remote support is included at no additional cost.
