Manufacturing
Manufacturing performance depends on the connection between operations, customers, pricing, capital, supply chain, and execution discipline. 23.5 Strategies helps manufacturers identify value levers, improve performance, and build practical growth and operating plans.
Perspective
How we think about manufacturing.
Manufacturing businesses live in the details: throughput, reliability, procurement, labor, maintenance, logistics, quality, customer commitments, pricing, product mix, working capital, margin structure, and operating discipline. Strategy only works if it connects the plant floor to the income statement.
23.5 Strategies advises manufacturing businesses, investors, founders, family-owned companies, private equity-backed platforms, and leadership teams on performance improvement, growth strategy, operating model design, commercial alignment, diligence, and execution planning.
Manufacturing companies often have valuable capabilities hidden beneath complexity. Margin may be diluted by customer mix, inefficient pricing, procurement exposure, product proliferation, inconsistent operating cadence, underused assets, weak data, or misalignment between sales and operations.
The firm helps clients identify where performance is being constrained and where focused action can create measurable value. The work does not treat manufacturing as a generic operations problem. It examines how the business sells, produces, prices, delivers, measures, invests, and competes.
Manufacturing advisory work is particularly relevant for businesses preparing for growth, transition, acquisition, integration, turnaround, or professionalization. 23.5 helps clients build practical plans that improve performance without losing sight of customers, culture, execution, or capital discipline.
Relevant Advisory Work
Representative work.
- Manufacturing strategy and operating model review
- Operational and commercial diagnostics
- Margin and cost-to-serve analysis
- Procurement and supply chain review
- Customer and product profitability
- KPI and performance governance
- Private equity diligence and value creation planning
- Post-close improvement support
- Turnaround and execution planning
- Growth and commercial alignment
Relevant Capabilities
Transformation & Operating Cadence
Translating strategy into the operating model, leadership rhythm, and execution discipline that actually delivers it.
Commercial Performance Optimization
Pricing, margin, and commercial discipline grounded in how the market actually behaves.
Growth Strategy & Value Creation
Identify where value compounds, where it leaks, and where leadership attention will move the curve.
Engagements
Engage the firm on manufacturing.
The firm engages selectively. If your situation warrants senior counsel, we will respond personally.