Solutions
"Solve my manufacturing challenge"
We believe our services should reflect solutions and be outcome-focused.
Mach Global Advisors is your trusted, unbiased advisor, with access to a deep talent pool 'on demand'. We start with an intake call to determine your needs and goals, and help guide you to the appropriate solution.
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What We Do:
Highlighted Services We Help Clients With
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Project Development and Delivery
Owner's advisor, specializing in early stage development projects
Outside view / validation
Sanitary design review
Constructability review
Claims support (owner/contractor)
Support your project management team
Scope / cost / schedule development and review
Project execution strategy
Oversight of design / engineering
Vendor prequalification, bid preparation, selection, and negotiation
Lead/support Factory Acceptance Test (FAT)
Construction oversight
Startup and commissioning oversight
Site selection
Capital cost review
Commercial negotiation
Procurement strategy
Site selection, evaluation, feasibility
Dispute resolution
Automation strategy
Permitting
Stakeholder alignment
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Assessment, Growth, and Optimization
Manufacturing readiness analysis
Capital project maturity assessment
Procurement / sourcing
Participating in interviews
Process optimization
Value engineering / advising
Options analysis
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Board Level Oversight
Due diligence
Commercial, technical, and project management oversight
Manufacturing strategy
Owner's advisor
Second opinion
Dispute resolution
Solution Offerings
Project Advisory
Advising on project planning, development and delivery
Where we can add value:
Owner's advisor
Project execution strategy
Support your project management team
Industry best practices
Risk review
Fractional Support
Providing support and leadership to plan deliver projects while you fill a key role
Where we can serve:
Someone to fill in for a key role (temporary or long term)
Make sure a project gets kicked off successfully
Regular team mentorship / leadership
Guidance on filling a key role, including sourcing referrals and interviewing candidates
Ongoing design, engineering, or construction support or issues
Vendor management
Project / program membership
Hands on, working as an extension of your team
Regular participation in calls/meetings
Non-Executive Director
Providing guidance tailored to manufacturing and capital projects
Expertise we can add:
Technical
Manufacturing
Capital projects
📈 Investors / Incubators / Accelerators!
Set your portfolio companies on the path to success by providing them with project advisory or fractional support services, or add technical, manufacturing, and capital project expertise on your companies' board of directors.
We can also support you in with due diligence, evaluation, and monitoring of your portfolio companies. We use our manufacturing readiness analysis to assess capital project maturity, and evaluate the project plan in terms of constructability, viability, cost and schedule. We can also serve as your advisor, providing an outside opinion on project maturity and ongoing monitoring.
Why We Do It Better
Approach
We are laser focused on identifying and solving your challenges, and teaching your team how to solve similar issues.
Experience
We draw from decades of food and beverage, consumer packaged goods, and broader manufacturing capital projects. We stay up-to-date on the latest trends, issues, and policies. We invest heavily in our network of trusted partners.
Candid and Unbiased
We are your trusted advisor, telling you what you need to hear, not necessarily what you want to hear. We refer based on experience, and never on financial incentive.
Example Engagements
Manufacturing Scale-Up
Problem: Client needed to increase capacity, roll out a new processing technique, and move to a different packaging format.
Solution: Aligned stakeholders, focused on customer delivery, built and executed short and term project plans.
Project Recovery; Dispute Resolution
Problem: Project was over schedule and over budget. Contractor, subcontractor, and owner were locked in a dispute.
Solution: Reviewed current situation, formed a third party opinion, and mediated to resolution. All parties were pleased with the outcome.
Fast-Track
Problem: Fast track project to expand capacity to be ready for seasonal rush.
Solution: Leveraged network and formed a creative procurement strategy; worked with engineer and AHJ to accelerate schedule and meet production needs.
Facility Retrofit for New Product
Problem: Existing facility needed to be overhauled to order to produce a new product.
Solution: Reviewed stakeholder needs, developed a project execution plan.
New Product Format
Problem: Major customer asked client for a new distribution format for a nationwide launch.
Solution: Developed project execution plan and led successful manufacturing launch.
Expansion Feasibility
Problem: Client wanted to evaluate options to expand capacity
Solution: Compared leveraging existing facility versus a new location; built a decision matrix and conducted decision workshop with client.
Wastewater (Infrastructure) Required
Problem: Existing wastewater treatment was at capacity.
Solution: Evaluated private and public options. Leveraged network to creatively develop solutions.
Project Development; Dispute Resolution
Problem: Owner and investor disagreed on development path, and were further in a dispute with a contractor.
Solution: Aligned parties, acted as a third party mediator; introduced a network partner who could meet their needs.
Manufacturing Network Assessment
Problem: Investor was evaluating purchasing manufacturing assets.
Solution: Assessed condition and capacity of the manufacturing network.
Site Assessment / Options Analysis
Problem: Client was investigating sites for expansion.
Solution: Performed options analysis and guided selection.