Our team has decades of manufacturing experience working with the largest OEMs, Tier 1, and Tier 2 suppliers. Seraph works alongside our clients to help ramp up their operations and remove bottlenecks constraining capacity. We have one common goal: assess and improve operations and provide a smooth transition back to management teams.

With the expansion of the private equity industry, deals are more competitive than ever. Investors need an operational strategy to win. The Seraph team augments portfolio company management to integrate new acquisitions, rationalize their footprint, and get the highest output of their people and equipment.

Seraph helps run manufacturing process more efficiently, decreasing costs while increasing quality. We support clients in reducing massive backlogs by improving production planning, managing a fragmented supply base and optimizing operations across the shop floor and warehouse.

Our clients design incredible products. Seraph has the knowledge to industrialize and produce those products at scale. With our world-class manufacturing team, we help clients hit their revenue targets and increase profitability while maintaining quality.

Manufacturers are vulnerable to raw material shortages, supplier capacity and quality constraints, production disruptions, and price increases. Seraph specializes in delivering complex and challenging manufacturing projects across a variety of industries ranging from construction, energy, infrastructure, semiconductors, warehouse, and logistics.

Strategy plays a crucial role in setting the stage for success across all aspects of a company’s operations. It is not enough for strategies to simply look good on paper – they must also be able to drive real-life results in areas requiring measurable improvement.

Why Choose Seraph for Strategy Consulting Services

Through critical junctures and necessary course corrections, Seraph provides support and expertise every step of the way. As operators, our strategy consulting work is always focused on execution.

Whether we are called on to develop a holistic strategy or make an existing one more effective, our strength lies in taking complex, messy situations and distilling them into simple, actionable steps. By establishing this clarity up front, we are able to lay the foundation for measurable progress toward achievable rallying points.

Transforming Strategy into Results

There is a lot of noise that frequently surrounds strategy in ad-hoc meetings. As soon as meetings are finished, the strategy is often placed on the back burner due to lack of defined actions or accountability. Seraph helps companies design high-definition operational strategies that are both resilient and actionable. While improving operations remains a priority, initiatives from strategy consultants often lack the focus required to realize the bigger picture.

For any strategy to matter, it has to increase revenue or reduce costs – not just on paper, but in real life. Some consultants spend their entire careers in conference rooms, assembling presentations that end up buried on hard drives without driving any actual results.

All too many strategic initiatives are loosely defined, underdeveloped, and fail to address the crucial question of how to implement. Without a comprehensive action plan, even the most meticulously constructed strategies will fail.

Mergers and acquisitions are filled with unknowns and potential pitfalls. Developing a comprehensive strategy, conducting robust due diligence, and decisive execution can mitigate risks and capitalize on value creation. 

Maximizing Value in Mergers And acquisitions

While a common reality in businesses, the majority of M&A transactions fail to create value. Every year, bad deals consume endless amounts of time, capital, and energy. Assessing the quality of a company’s assets, customers, people, and management systems is a multifaceted process that must be executed with the utmost rigor before committing.

Slide-deck fantasies evaporate when faced with the facts. Synergies and add-backs forecasted by bankers need to be well understood, vetted against current realities, and revised accordingly. Strategy tailored to your appetite for investment and integration greatly increases the chance for post-acquisition success.

Why Choose Seraph for Mergers and Acquisitions Consulting Services

Whether you are starting with a precise focus or a blank canvas, we partner with your team to develop a winning strategy and the action plan to get it done.

We immerse ourselves in your company to develop an understanding of your vision. We use these findings to frame our research into potential targets, partners, and spin-out opportunities.

As operators who have launched new facilities and joint ventures from the ground up, Seraph complements high-level analysis of industry dynamics, competition and market opportunities with on-the-ground attention to your daily activities.

Launching new initiatives requires coordination across all business units. Successful launches require equal knowledge about which actions to take and which actions to avoid.

Navigating Complexity to Achieve Growth

A company’s ability to deliver large strategic initiatives determines its growth trajectory. Launching new products or entering new markets requires coordination at scale. However, the complexity of such projects often leads to unforeseen hurdles that must be understood in the context of company culture, management practices, fluctuating supply chains, and a dynamic market.

Effectively delivering on projects and programs designed to elevate an enterprise means knowing what to do when inevitable derailments occur. Transformational strategies developed through project management consulting only become meaningful when translated into real results.

Why Choose Seraph for Project Management Consulting Services

Successful project management requires an experienced team executing a clearly defined strategy, supported by all necessary resources. Regular, transparent communication and real-time data monitoring are required to stay on track and move forward. Seraph brings experienced leadership that keeps a diverse set of stakeholders engaged and on plan.

Our subject matter specialists have experience as program managers, continuous improvement managers, and global quality leads. We are comfortable working as an extension of your organization to ensure your most ambitious projects are managed effectively and efficiently. Count on Seraph’s clear communication and tactical management to keep you informed and on track.

Stabilize and Regain Momentum

When enterprises experience times of crisis, corrective action must be swift and decisive to preserve stakeholder confidence. In the absence of a real plan, reactive measures, buzzwords and hand waving often serve only to exacerbate the confusion and chaos.

What’s required is total focus on positive action that addresses the root causes of the crisis with a clear, actionable strategy for customer protection, delivery restoration and profit stabilization.

Time is of the essence, and any plan must include concrete, achievable steps toward execution and the swift reinstatement of stable operations.

Why Choose Seraph for Crisis Management Consulting Services

Seraph comes to the aid of struggling manufacturing operations with an extensive playbook of strategies to handle any situation.

When necessary, we place members of our crisis management firm in senior positions to manage on our clients’ behalf and contain the business risk.

Our team develops strategies with clear deliverables, escalation procedures and goals which drive the project while your team focuses on running the business.