Maximize Your Margins and Reduce Your Risk
Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, TQM, Continuous Improvement, and Reliability Engineering are different disciplines that all have the same goal – to maximize productivity and minimize cost. Wherever your starting point, Saphineia’s team of seasoned manufacturing practitioners can help your team build the shop-floor operational systems and processes that facilitate and sustain strong, consistent shop-floor performance.
In addition, Saphineia’s training programs and group workshops for shop-floor leaders will provide your managers and other front-line leaders with the tools and skills required to be successful.
Operational Excellence Services
In just 2-3 weeks, learn where your plant stands operationally versus your middle market peers, obtain specific recommendations to take your operational performance to the next level.
With a detailed analysis of your operations, Saphineia will deliver a list of profit improvement opportunities, our size of the prize estimate, and a specific project where we will guarantee a minimum performance improvement that pays back in months, not years.
Saphineia’s experienced shop-floor practitioners serve as ‘boots on the ground’, helping your team capture savings opportunities and teaching them how to make the improvements stick.
Saphineia can help you reduce overfill/giveaway and unnecessary production scrap, which are two large sources of profit leakage.
Successful manufacturers all have a culture of measurement & accountability on the shop-floor. Saphineia can help you strengthen your shop-floor practices, including: defining KPIs, setting targets, keeping score, tracking progress and implementing corrective actions when performance doesn’t achieve your targets.
Upskill your operations and shop-floor leaders by providing them with on-demand access to experienced manufacturing practitioners, who serve as a valuable thought partner, sounding board and mentor to your employee.
One of the keys to achieving consistent performance on the shop floor is clearly defining how various tasks should be performed. Saphineia's experts can help your organization deliver more consistent results by documenting key operational processes and then training your hourly workers to ensure these processes are well-understood.
In our experience, most middle market Food & Beverage manufacturers don’t understand their costs at the SKU level. As such, they lack critical visibility into SKU profitability and therefore must make key business decisions based on insufficient (or bad) information. Saphineia helps manufacturers ensure that their Product Costing Model reflects production reality, enabling more accurate pricing and better strategic decisions regarding how to allocate valuable line time and corporate resources.
Product Costing & SKU Profitability Services
In just 2 weeks, Saphineia will evaluate your costing model and identify any deficiencies, providing you greater confidence in pricing decisions made based on this essential tool.
Saphineia will conduct a deep-dive into your shop floor performance to more accurately trace manufacturing costs to SKUs. The output of this work is greater clarity on your costs and which SKUs make money and which ones do not.
This work takes our In-depth SKU Profitability Analysis to the next level, tracing customer-specific costs to each customer to provide even greater visibility into where the business makes money.
The last step in Saphineia’s Product Costing & SKU Profitability services, Saphineia can help you operationalize the tracking and allocation of cost data to allow you to more easily measure SKU Profitability on an ongoing basis.
Upskill your operations and shop-floor leaders by providing them with on-demand access to experienced manufacturing practitioners, who serve as a valuable thought partner, sounding board and mentor to your employee.
Quality & Food Safety is your license to drive and the cornerstone of solid operational practices and procedures. Saphineia’s Q&FS experts help you ensure the strength and efficacy of your quality systems and help protect your businesses from expensive, preventable product withdrawals and recalls, while also reducing the negative financial cost of poor quality.
Quality & Food Safety Services
In 2-3 weeks, Saphineia will review your existing Q&FS program (or your contract manufacturer's) for potential gaps and provide recommendations on how to reduce business risk by closing these gaps.
If you are evaluating an acquisition Target, Saphineia’s Q&FS experts can help you better understand the Target’s Q&FS systems. This will enable you to make a more informed investment decision, while providing you with recommendations on how to mitigate risk, including potential post-transaction investment requirements.
Saphineia can provide an independent set of eyes, including conducting a mock audit, to help you be prepared for your critical annual review.
Organizations seeking certification under GFSI schemes like SQF are required to ensure that all employees receive appropriate quality & food safety training (including periodic retaining as needed). While your quality team is busy running the business, Saphineia’s experts can provide you surge training resources to ensure you are in compliance.
Your suppliers’ and contract manufacturers’ quality & food safety procedures are no less important than your own. Saphineia can assess the adequacy of your review program for suppliers and contract manufacturers. We also can perform on-site quality audits of these important 3rd parties.
Upskill your operations and shop-floor leaders by providing them with on-demand access to experienced manufacturing practitioners, who serve as a valuable thought partner, sounding board and mentor to your employee.
Saphineia’s Supply Chain Optimization services focus beyond the shop-floor to identify and root out inefficiencies that drive unnecessary costs and risk into your manufacturing operations.
Supply Chain Optimization Services
Inventory is likely one of your largest assets and write-offs can cost a fortune. In 2-3 weeks, Saphineia will evaluate your inventory levels and provide recommendations on how to optimize your inventory, generate more cash and earn higher returns on capital while reducing risk.
Saphineia can help you optimize your utilization of line time and inventory, including reducing costly planned downtime.
Saphineia can help identify and capture opportunities to improve operational practices in your internal warehouse(s) and optimize your production and internal/external warehousing network.
If you rely on contract manufacturers for primary or secondary capacity, we can help you assess the capabilities and risks of the co-mans you will be trusting with your brand, and help you address reliability and quality issues when they emerge.
How well your vendors (suppliers or contract manufacturers) meet your quality, service & cost requirements has a direct impact on your bottom line. Saphineia can help you achieve improved performance from your vendors, thereby improving the quality, service and cost of your products.
Raw materials and packaging materials are, collectively, a food & beverage manufacturer’s largest cost item. Adopting best practices in this critical function can add millions of dollars to your bottom line.
Upskill your operations and shop-floor leaders by providing them with on-demand access to experienced manufacturing practitioners, who serve as a valuable thought partner, sounding board and mentor to your employee.
Too often, transactions do not achieve their desired outcomes — risks are missed and/or opportunities are not identified, with these realities emerging after it is too late for corrective action.
Whether you are buying or selling, lending or borrowing, having Saphineia’s unique combination of hands-on manufacturing and investing experience on your side will help you identify risks and potential “showstoppers” early, while surfacing value-creation opportunities that are not easily observable.
Transaction Support Services
Saphineia leverages decades of hands-on manufacturing and buy-side investing expertise to identify risks and value creation opportunities that others struggle to see.
If you are considering a sale process, preparing your documentation for an operationally savvy buyer is critical to maximizing value. Saphineia can provide your organization with the skills and excess capacity, with the operational and financial know-how, to put your best foot forward.
Saphineia helps you maximize the value you capture upon exit by highlighting the risks and opportunities in your manufacturing operations so you can secure any quick wins and/or document the upside opportunity and road map for your potential buyers.
Saphineia can help you improve your underwriting process and decision-making by bringing decades of manufacturing and Q&FS experience to evaluating prospective borrowers. To help reduce your risk, Saphineia can help identify key milestones, conditions precedent and/or conditions subsequent to funding.
Saphineia brings substantial operational know-how and analytical rigor to help you evaluate a manufacturer’s capacity utilization, including if and when additional capacity may be required.
In our experience, imprecise, unsophisticated methods for estimating capacity utilization can lead to significant wasted time and effort in sale processes. Saphineia brings substantial rigor and an independent voice to this complicated subject, performing a detailed process-center by process center capacity and constraint analysis – providing sellers and buyers with more reliable estimates and reducing a source of unnecessary friction in the deal process.
Benjamin Franklin said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” In the middle-market, teams are lean and individuals are already busy with their day jobs. Large projects also often contain activities that are entirely new to them, with “unknown unknowns” lurking in the shadows.
Whether you are looking to move locations, build a new site, implement a new ERP system or install new equipment, Saphineia’s team of seasoned professionals can help you avoid common pitfalls, keep your project on track, and avoid costly early planning errors that can delay your project, drive overspending, or result in a project that does not meet your objectives.
Project Execution Services
New plant construction or plant expansions involve significantly more complexity than just building the physical site. The devil is in the details, and success requires the involvement of multiple functions across your organization. Saphineia can support your team with planning and project management, leveraging the experience of professionals who have executed complex projects like this inside leading Food & Beverage manufacturers.
Moving production from one location to another is complex, often requiring customer approvals, supply chain changes, capacity planning and significant employee training. Saphineia’s manufacturing professionals can help your team with planning and troubleshooting to avoid common–and potentially costly–mistakes of this very large undertaking.
Installation is just the beginning to get the value out of new equipment. Saphineia can help you plan and execute new equipment start-ups, including documentation, troubleshooting and training your shop-floor workers, increasing the likelihood that your startup and ramp-up will meet your financial targets and customer requirements.
Saphineia’s experienced project managers can save your company money and time by using tried and true tools and experience to ensure your project is delivered on-time and on-budget and meets your business objectives.
Installing a new ERP system is an extremely difficult and risk-laden endeavor. Saphineia’s team has been through the process on multiple occasions and can help your business take the steps needed to ensure the ERP ultimately contains the business functionality you want it to have, before it becomes significantly more costly to fix later.
Upskill your operations and shop-floor leaders by providing them with on-demand access to experienced manufacturing practitioners, who serve as a valuable thought partner, sounding board and mentor to your employee.
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