TACKLING THE TOUGHEST PROBLEMS
Our wide range of services allows us to help formulate the strategy for your manufacturing enterprise, as well as implementing needed innovations, helping you create the winning difference.
Private Equity Services
Optio Tempore can provide focused services for private equity firms, and can bring world-class experienced talent to augment the business management team. Our professionals have directly managed operational transformations as executives in private equity-owned firms and have worked with the business management teams driving operations improvement.
We have performed dozens of pre-acquisition assessments to determine operational capability and potential for improvement. Plants have been started and ramped up around the world, many products have been transferred across plants, and plants have been shutdown in an orderly, effective manner.
ACQUISITION DUE DILIGENCE
Optio Tempore has professionals with deep industry and cross industry operations experience:
- Able to quickly determine the target’s core operational capabilities
- Identify key opportunities to improve performance: people, process, technology
- Quantify improvement opportunities and investment required for capture
- Develop plans to accelerate value capture
Bring the world class experience and talent to ensure that the operational assessment is as thorough and professional as the financial due diligence.
CASE STUDY: GAS TURBINE ENGINE MANUFACTURING →
PLANT SHUTDOWN/STARTUP
Optio Tempore can bring the experience of dozens of numerous successful plant shutdowns and startups to your company. Often, much of the structural value in an acquisition rests in the ability to re-align facilities with the changing market and supply base. Our professionals have directly managed facility network optimization around the world, starting up plants in Eastern Europe, China, and India, and shutting down facilities in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.
- Checklists of key startup or shutdown requirements
- Past project plans and GANT charts
- Lessons learned from past startups and shutdowns
- Network of global contacts with startup and shutdown experience
CASE STUDY: ATM MANUFACTURING PLANT →
IMPROVEMENT ACCELERATION
Optio Tempore can bring experienced talent for short bursts of intense focus on the most critical initiatives. Talent and experience which can rarely be found inside a middle market manufacturing company. Optio Tempore will team up with managers to accelerate problem solving, solution definitions, execution planning, and implementation.
CASE STUDY: GLASS BOTTLE MANUFACTURER →
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENHANCEMENT
Optio Tempore can design and build low cost information technology solutions leveraging open source cloud-based software, which will outperform earlier custom or packaged software, because they are specific to your business. These solutions can be low cost both to build and to use, and remain flexible to your business expansion and changing needs. Optio Tempore is totally focused on making your business more efficient and effective, not building or selling software for software’s sake. Our professionals can quickly assess your current capabilities and identify opportunities to apply new IT solutions which will improve operations, enhance collaboration, and streamline your support activities.
CASE STUDY: PRINTING COMPANY →
Diagnostic Analysis
Often, efforts to improve any area need to start with a diagnostic analysis. The professionals at Optio Tempore have performed hundreds of diagnostic evaluations ranging in scope from examining the whole business to zeroing in on a particular facility or functional area, like inventory management.
Examples of frequent diagnostic review include:
• Acquisition Due Diligence
• Business Unit Strategy Review
• Product Profitability
• Customer Service Performance
• Information System Capability vs. Requirements
• Manufacturing Productivity
• Product Development Post-mortem
Strategy & Operations
Improvement Services
Optio Tempore can help with the formulation your strategy for your manufacturing enterprise, as well as implementing needed innovations. Our goal is to help you create the winning difference by making your operations capability a strategic advantage, and by helping you formulate a strategy which builds on the the operational capabilities you have or could build. We bring the analytics, experience, and objective insight which, when added to your company and industry knowledge, can create the innovative, powerful strategy and capabilities needed in today’s rapidly changing environment.
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and ninety-nine percent alignment.
JIM COLLINS
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and ninety-nine percent alignment.
JIM COLLINS
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and ninety-nine percent alignment.
JIM COLLINS
Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and ninety-nine percent alignment.
JIM COLLINS
IMPROVE WHAT YOU HAVE AND BUILD THE FUTURE
Our expert process can help improve what you now have in place as an operating model, network of facilities, and operational capabilities—along with helping you to build the future of your company.
Enable with Technology
In our fast-paced world, technology is critical to both building a winning strategy and executing it. Optio Tempore has worked successfully with clients around the globe in crafting their technology strategy to align with their business, creating the right initiatives, and delivering them on time and on budget.
BUSINESS STRATEGY
The business strategy must take advantage of the recent advances in technology to meet customer expectations and to stay current with aggressive competitors.
EFFECTIVE IT
Effective IT is critical to every business process area. Without it, customer expectations and competitor capabilities can only be matched by expensive “sneaker-ware.”
NEW SOLUTIONS
New solutions including cloud computing, open-source, and supplier partnerships mean the latest technology can be accessed even by some of your smallest competitors.
Develop Business Unit Strategy
The business unit strategy is comprised of three mutually beneficial parts: strategy, operations, and marketing & sales. When all three are realized, your company will gain the alignment needed to excel in a competitive marketplace.
BUILD OPERATIONS EXCELLENCE
• Set strategy deployment
• Build strong S&OP process
• Use lean product dev.
• Optimize supply chain
• Build high-performance work teams
• Create process excellence
• Managed performance
DETERMINE HOW YOU WILL WIN
• Articulate the mission
• Set clear targets
• Choose products & services
• Decide where to compete
• Decide how to compete
CREATE ALIGNMENT & CAPABILITY
• Align with strategy
• Build strong S&OP process
• Build channels to match
• Leverage operations in sales
• Communicate the value proposition
• Drive discipline into processes
Build Operational Excellence
Fully effective operations must embrace both strategic alignment with customers’ business strategy and product service development. In addition, it is necessary to embrace internal operations capabilities to fully realize operational excellence.
