Cost Optimization

The highest possible return. That’s the goal. Especially in today’s PE environment where multiples aren’t flowing at the rate they did in cycles past, optimizing costs and improving profitability is the path to transforming a company and maximizing your multiple. To get there, you need to identify key cost drivers and create a customized action plan that takes the nuances of your sector and company into account.

Our experts rely on their extensive knowledge and backgrounds across industries to quickly deliver results. From people to process to technology, we discover cost drivers and identify the right levers to address them. And then we go further: Whether through supply chain, back-office support processes, or organization-wide technology improvements, we develop and execute the roadmap to drive cost optimization and improve profitability.

PAIN POINT

Declining profitability, requiring significant operating cost improvements from big “needle movers” as well as quick-wins to get buy-in from key functional leaders.

What Accordion brings:

Fix the structure.

Right size organization and re-engineer processes to balance responsibilities between regional, central, and outsourced locations to optimize spans and layers of control.

Improve the supply chain.

Reconfigure end-to-end supply chain.

Automate processes.

Strategic digital enablement and automation.

PAIN POINT

Misaligned operations and missed opportunities for synergies during a merger integration or acquisition, leaving error-prone, highly manual back-office processes and inefficient technology (ERP, CRM, etc.).

What Accordion brings:

Revisit the value creation plan.

Develop value creation plan and manage its execution through a regimented transition management office.

Create better, consistent processes.

Lean on manufacturing principles to drive efficiencies and effectiveness in back-office processes.

Implement or improve ERP, CPM, or other tech.

Optimize end-to-end value stream processes for cost efficiencies and performance effectiveness.

PAIN POINT

Exacerbated cash flow issues and struggling to meet debt obligations due to cash tied in inventory.

What Accordion brings:

Establish sales and operations planning processes.

Apply sector-specific best practice principles to nuances of your business.

Automate supply chain planning.

Select an advanced supply chain planning tool to enable and automate planning processes.

Identify profitable SKUs within large product portfolio.

Complexity optimization including SKU/Service rationalization and cost to serve optimization.

CLIENT STORY

Preparing an inventory optimization pilot program to match a food contract manufacturer’s hunger for growth

You’re a $3B Food Contract Manufacturer who has grown aggressively through acquisitions and has 39 manufacturing operations in the US with additional international operations. With an EBITDA of $250M, you have $230M+ of working capital tied in inventory—including raw materials, work in process, and finished goods.) You need to optimize your inventory program.

CLIENT STORY

Rehabilitating operating costs and process efficiency for a healthcare system

You’re a PE-backed leading operator of 130+ ambulatory surgery centers and 18 hospitals. Your rapid growth has made you outgrow your relatively immature processes and systems; each month, Accounts Payable manually processes 12,000 invoices and Accounting manually posts 4,000 entries supported by 5,000 reconciliations.

We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

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Udit Sharma

Managing Director

Udit Sharma is a Managing Director with 25+ years of experience driving EBITDA growth and operational excellence for Fortune 500 and private-equity–backed companies. He partners with executives to design and execute business transformations that unlock sustained value.

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Junaid Samnani

President, Finance & Technology Solutions

Junaid is our President of Finance & Technology Solutions with nearly two decades of experience in numerous consulting leadership roles. His specific expertise includes performance improvement, technology transformation, merger integration, and divestitures. Over the course of his career, Junaid has led engagements for public and private organizations and has serviced 40+ private equity firms.

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Jeff Goltara

Managing Director

Jeff is a Managing Director with over two decades of management consulting experience serving finance and operations executives across corporate lifecycles – from early stage, VC-backed to established Fortune 500 companies.

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Cost Optimization

Declining profitability, requiring significant operating cost improvements from big “needle movers” as well as quick-wins to get buy-in from key functional leaders.

Misaligned operations and missed opportunities for synergies during a merger integration or acquisition, leaving error-prone, highly manual back-office processes and inefficient technology (ERP, CRM, etc.).

Exacerbated cash flow issues and struggling to meet debt obligations due to cash tied in inventory.

Preparing an inventory optimization pilot program to match a food contract manufacturer’s hunger for growth

Rehabilitating operating costs and process efficiency for a healthcare system

Meet a fewof our experts.

Ready to get stuff done? Let’s talk.

Meet a few
of our experts.