by Dave Frentzel | Feb 25, 2020 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Investor Advisory, Operations, Supply Chain Management
In our August 2019 Supply Chain Contingency Planning Brief, the timely “call to action” was the US-China trade war. Today COVID-19 is the greater concern to our supply chains and more tragically to human health. These might be considered black swan events; thus,...
by Dave Frentzel | Aug 3, 2019 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Investor Advisory, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Value Creation
Midwestern soybean farmers and Silicon Valley hi-tech companies are miles apart, yet both currently face a common supply chain crisis with limited options: their high dependency on China. Could better contingency planning have helped both weather this storm? Several...
by Dave Frentzel | Feb 2, 2019 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Supply Chain Management, Transportation & Logistics
Shippers have many options when choosing a third-party logistics (3PL) provider. Even with industry consolidations, there are thousands of companies that offer logistics services – brokers, freight forwarders, contract logistics companies, tech-based startups, and so...
by Dave Frentzel | Nov 7, 2016 | Briefs, Due Diligence, Strategy
Most senior executives would agree that a company’s information technology (IT) capabilities can be a significant strategic asset. Yet all too often M&A IT due diligence efforts are narrowly scoped to simply identify any “skeletons in the closet” – the potential...
by David Bovet | Jan 28, 2016 | Acquisition Opportunity Scan, Briefs, Due Diligence, Investor Advisory
Why should we care about due diligence? The middle market and lower middle market (LMM) spaces are attractive to investors. Private equity firms, family offices and other capital providers injected $370B into the US middle market during 2015, in 2,017 transactions....
