TriVista Identifies Integration Savings of $1.6M for a Specialty Chemicals Manufacturer

The Challenge

A Private Equity-backed specialty coatings company was seeking to acquire a sizeable competitor with complementary adjacencies hired TriVista to conduct a pre-acquisition Quality of Operations™ Due Diligence assessment to model the options, costs, savings and resources required to integrate the businesses, as well as develop a detailed integration plan.

Our Approach

• Confirmed and tracked synergies
• Reviewed organizational structure and management team effectiveness
• Analyzed operating capacity
• Established operating benchmarks and metrics
• Evaluated the robustness of existing plans, identified plan gaps and formulated recommendations

The Results

• Identified integration synergy savings of $1.6M
• Provided estimated capital expenditure and investment plan
• Established integration activity, resource and sequence planning
• Identified additional improvement opportunities, including Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP), warehouse optimization, SKU rationalization, quality system and factory layout improvement
• Offered leadership improvement recommendations