Turn the savings target into specific fixes, each traced to its root cause.
Before closing, a buyer sets a savings target from benchmarks and limited diligence. After closing, Snowstone reads the company's own data and breaks the operational improvement part of that target into specific problems, each with its root cause, its EBITDA impact, and the recommended fix.
- Operational Diagnostic
- Root cause analysis of why each KPI is off.
- Bolt-on Integration Planning
- Capture synergies from systems consolidation.
- Value Creation Planning
- Raise EBITDA through operational improvements.
Value creation levers and operational risks
Each review finds the root causes behind these problems and recommends the action to take, with an estimate of the EBITDA or cash impact.
Labor productivity
Manual work, duplicated work, and extra approvals, sized in hours and cost.
Procurement savings
Payments above contract rates and off-contract spend, matched to the contracts they break.
Margin leakage
Discounts outside policy and contract terms that are not enforced, checked against the invoices.
Working capital release
Aged receivables and invoices held up by disputes, shown as cash and kept outside EBITDA.
Operational risk
Key-person risk and single points of failure, each with an owner role and a mitigation.
KPI root causes
Why a margin, delivery date, or cost line is off, traced to the process behind it.
Put company-wide analysis behind your next decision.
Snowstone reads the company's data and ranks every fix by what it is worth.