Fabricated Metal Products
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Customer & Market Due Diligence Of Global Precision Parts Manufacturer: Validating Revenue Sustainability In Markets Under Transformational Changes
Conducted a 2-week customer & market due diligence to validate the sustainability and growth outlook of target’s key product application/programs. To this end, Gotham: built a model to establish impact of automotive electrification on target’s business; analyzed target’s top product applications/ programs to establish growth outlook, program lifecycle, target’s positioning, and margin outlook; conducted anonymous and “warm introduction” interviews with target’s customers; reconciled target’s financial projections against market forecast to determine how much of target’s projected growth was coming from market share gains; and established competitive landscape for both mechanical and electric parts. Gotham’s work established that target’s business was sustainable and gave our client confidence to proceed with its investment.
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Operational Due Diligence of Fabricated Metal Products Holding Company: Properly Valuing Diverse Manufacturing Operations
Analyzed operations and cost structure of 5 independent companies engaged in forging, casting, and stamping operations. Deciphered cost structure, reviewed manufacturing operations, and analyzed material spend. Identified $7-15MM of labor, overhead, and material cost reduction opportunities in the largest of the companies, which was engaged in steel casting. Identified another $6-9MM in scheduling, labor, efficiency, and consolidation opportunities for the remaining companies. After delayed acquisition, now helping to capture opportunities.
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Material Cost Reduction at Large Steel Castings Manufacturer: Material Purchasing and Usage Reduction
Identified $3.3-5.5MM in material cost reduction opportunities in both purchasing and material usage, including: clawing back commodity price increases; consolidating vendor base and re-sourcing key commodities; measuring and reducing material usage; and tracking and controlling non-centralized discretionary purchases. Developed tools to allow robust, ongoing reporting and analysis capabilities for both purchasing and usage performance and created the bid packages for top 6 commodities to launch the re-sourcing process. Within weeks, client team reduced usage by 3%, generating $1.2MM in savings, and completed several re-sourcing initiatives.
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Manufacturing Strategy at Global Industrial Products Company: Establishing a Global Sourcing Strategy to Harvest Plant Consolidation Savings
Developed a worldwide sourcing strategy for an industrial goods rollup company. Plans included the closure of 3 plants, consolidation of NA automation to single facility, migration of low-value assembly to Mexico and movement of electronic assembly to Southeast Asia. Total run-rate savings from the project are estimated at $20MM on a total cost basis of approx. $200MM.
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