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plastic cost reduction

Cost-Reduction Group with Niche Expertise Crucially Needed

Cost-Reduction Group Needed for Leading Plastics Company A leading plastics company that designed and manufactured innovative plastic-injection molded products was looking for opportunities to reduce their costs and believed potential opportunities lay within their legacy supply contracts. Given the nature of the company’s products and its specific resin grades, the company needed a group with […]

PE-Backed Companies
Operations
specialized recruiter

Critical staffing & recruiting firm to hire low-level sales language supports

Critical need for specialized recruiter for international hires A PE firm VP came to us with a critical need for a specialized recruiter for their fintech portfolio company. As part of their growth strategy for the portco, they were gearing up to expand into more geographies, so they were in urgent need of language supports […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
Procurement Consulting group

Procurement consulting group critical for COVID & inflation-related supply chain issues

Food and beverage portco critically needs procurement consulting group A PE firm VP came to us with a critical need for a raw materials procurement strategy consulting group for their food and beverage portco. Having recently acquired the platform that was growing rapidly, they needed a group that could develop and implement a sophisticated purchasing […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
MSP

Vital MSP to optimize and monitor Azure

PE Firm and portco contact BluWave for MSP need An LMM PE firm ops partner and portco CFO came to us with a critical need for an IT Managed Services Provider (MSP) that could optimize and monitor the portco’s needs in the Azure development space. With past reliance on a small team that set everything […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
Digital transformation

Critical need for firm to lead digital transformation of portco

PE firm needs group to lead digital transformation for portco A VP at a LMM PE firm came to us with a critical need for a group that could lead their transportation portco through a full digital transformation project. With the portco’s field service division expanding rapidly and potentially tripling in size soon, they were […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
VMS operational diligence

Operational diligence provider urgent for VMS target

Firm needs operational diligence for target VMS manufacturing company A PE firm principal came to us with a critical need for operational diligence on a target they had in the vitamins, minerals, and supplements (VMS) manufacturing space. A week into the diligence process after signing an LOI, the firm needed someone to answer their question […]

PE Firms
Operations
Due Diligence
operational performance and improvement consultant

Critical ops performance & improvement consultant to increase warehouse efficiency

Managing partner needs operational performance and improvement consultant for warehouse redesign A PE firm managing partner came to us with a critical need for an operational performance and improvement consultant that could evaluate and redesign the existing layout in one of their manufacturing portcos’ warehouses. Since acquiring the portco, the PE firm had discovered that […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
pricing consulting firm

Critical boutique pricing consulting firm need

Pricing consultant essential for value creation in portco A PE firm vice president came to us with a critical need for a pricing expert that could help several of their portcos in the manufacturing industry. Facing pricing challenges such as trouble getting price increases from procurement groups and historical company cultures of not raising prices, […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
ERP Selection

ERP selection advisor critically needed

Firm urgently needs consultant for ERP selection A PE firm came to us with a critical need for an ERP selection consultant for their portco in the manufacturing industry. Since acquiring the portco, they knew that the company’s older ERP system would need to be replaced. Knowing that the selection and implementation would be a […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
Prep for sale healthcare

LMM VP with vital need for prep for sale resource to successfully support portco in process

Prep for sale resource needed for healthcare tech portco A PE firm came to us with a critical need for an independent prep for sale resource for their healthcare technology company. Ready to sell their portco, they were looking for an interim controller that could come in and manage the book closing as well as […]

PE Firms
Operations
Prep For Sale
Bakery executive recruiting firm

Executive recruiting firm needed to place VP of Operations

VP of Operations urgently needed to take charge at bakery portco A PE firm came to us with a critical need for an executive recruiting firm that could place a VP of Operations in their bakery portfolio company. Since buying a second bakery as an add-on to their original portco, they urgently needed someone that […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation
surfing ecommerce site, post-merger integration

Strategic post-merger integration support

Firm vitally needs integration support for ecommerce portco A PE firm came to us with a critical need for post-merger integration support for their ecommerce portfolio company. Since investing in the company, M&A was part of the strategy but the company had no experience in executing or managing the post-merger integration process. They immediately needed […]

PE Firms
Operations
Value Creation

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