Our client merged 3 distribution companies into one entity and needed to model the newco distribution network, re-design the DC layouts and processes, and enhance DC productivity and throughput.
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Coping with Cost Inflation: Part 1
We all know the power of price increases as a cash flow lever. Pricing is ultimately a function of what the market will bear, and not dictated by cost. Yet covering a company’s costs is an important input to pricing decisions, and current trends provide a very favorable environment for price increases for companies that can execute well.
Product Value Improvement
Our operating-oriented PE clients are always looking for value levers: areas where focused improvements can create large performance gains. Some firms focus mainly on researching best practices. We are practitioners. We take proven ideas and implement them. In the course of our recent work, we’ve identified six areas where we have recently been finding untapped opportunities to help well-run companies reach new performance levels.
Human Capital
Human Capital Management
The ProAction Group is pleased to announce its exclusive partnership with the Human Resource Consulting Group (HRCG). Led by Dr. Steve Julius, HRCG helps companies develop and leverage the value of their human capital through executive assessment, transition management, leadership development, and human resource capability enhancement.
Underused Value Levers: Part 2
Our operating-oriented PE clients are always looking for value levers: areas where focused improvements can create large performance gains.
Some firms focus mainly on researching best practices. We’re practitioners. We take proven ideas and implement them. In the course of our recent work, we’ve identified six areas where we have recently been finding untapped opportunities to help well-run companies reach new performance levels.
Underused Value Levers: Part 1
Our operating-oriented PE clients are always looking for value levers: areas where focused improvements can create large performance gains. Below we list six areas where we’ve recently been seeing lots of opportunities, and then we take a closer look at the first one, Pricing. In the coming weeks, we’ll have segments on each of the other levers.
Increasing Value Through Operations
Buyout firms create value by finding, assessing, and closing good opportunities and then working with management to make companies more valuable. In that light, we thought you might benefit from taking a look at some data reflecting where our clients have been active using our services. Here is a summary of ProAction’s 2007 business, highlighting the most common types of projects.
ProAction Group Partners with HRCG
View how PE firms have been using our services to grow sales and EBITDA.
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Automated Will-Call Lifts the Restraints of the Traditional 9 to 5
An article by Robert Sherlock, published in the May/June 2007 issue of Parcel Magazine
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Spotting Opportunities for New Products and Services
by Robert Sherlock and Chris Broxon
Reprinted from ACG Network Newsletter, October 2004
Does your company (or a portfolio company) need to develop new products or services to generate growth, but you aren’t sure how to go about doing it? We recommend a couple of proven methods. Market Back starts with taking a comprehensive look at target customers or groups of customers, probing for problems that they need solved, or other ways that they can be made better off. This is followed by organizing a creative effort to come up with ways that your company can make those customers’ businesses or daily lives better.
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