-Pricing strategies, processes, and disciplines
-Customer and product profitability
-Channel strategies and management
-Sales & operations planning (S&OP)
-Product development process

-Lean enterprise/Lean manufacturing
-Outsourcing/asset rationalization
-Quality systems
-Inventory and materials management
-Product value improvement/value engineering

-Strategy development
-Supplier development
-Asia/global
-Logistics (freight, warehousing, planning)

This report provides deal teams information to refine valuations, and sometimes walk away from potentially bad deals. We identify and quantify key operating risks and opportunities. We also identify specific areas of inquiry that will help better understand the prospective investment. This includes determining the validity of management's assumptions on areas such as revenue gains, productivity changes, capacity, capital expenditures, ability to serve customers, offshore threats, and other areas. Typically, we would have the opportunity for a high-level review of the company, including attending the management presentation, reviewing the data room, and usually obtaining special access to additional company people or operations.

The ProAction Group report identifies and quantifies operational opportunities and risks, at a greater level of detail and with more supporting evidence. We also will confirm operating assumptions and develop plans for post-close success.

We work with management to develop a clear set of priorities, identify key initiatives needed to address these priorities, create actionable plans for each initiative, and ensure the organization has the right resources allocated.

We identify and quantify key improvement opportunities. We then develop specific action plans to realize and sustain the gains.

We work with management to develop specific plans to prepare a company for growth, organically and through acquisition.

We work with management to implement change to a business. The results are fundamental operating improvements which can be measured in financial statements.

Sometimes clients don't need ProAction to handle project management responsibilities. In these cases, we provide expert people for temporary assignment.

We provide complete operating support for fundraising, investment screening, portfolio company improvement, and exiting. We assign one senior operating principal as the point person, and the client gets access to our entire staff, toolkit, and network of professional relationships.