Feasibility Studies & Investment Decision Support
Pressure-test demand, capacity, capital, operating cost and ramp-up assumptions before an investment becomes difficult to reverse.
Private · Confidential · Operator-led
Overview
A model can balance while the operating assumptions underneath it remain fragile. This review isolates the assumptions that decide the return and tests them against how food and dairy plants actually ramp, run and absorb fixed cost.
The work is structured to improve the decision, not to defend a preferred project. Where phasing, outsourcing or a smaller first step protects value, that alternative is made explicit.
Who this is for
- Owners considering a new plant or major expansion
- Boards reviewing a manufacturing investment
- Investors assessing an operating case
What is reviewed
Review areas
- Demand evidence and volume ramp
- Practical capacity and utilisation
- Capex completeness and contingency
- Utilities, effluent and site constraints
- Operating cost at realistic utilisation
- Working capital and commissioning exposure
Deliverables
- Independent feasibility challenge
- Assumption and sensitivity register
- Capacity and operating-cost model review
- Capital completeness review
- Phasing and decision-gate recommendation
Risks this work addresses
- Demand arriving later than the funding plan assumes
- Unit cost modelled at mature rather than start-up utilisation
- Utilities or effluent omitted from capital scope
- Full capacity committed before the market is demonstrated
Questions worth answering internally
If these cannot be answered with evidence, the decision is not yet ready.
- Which assumptions decide the return?
- What happens at seventy percent utilisation?
- What capital has not been included?
- Which commitments can remain reversible?
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Practical notes on manufacturing, co-packing, margin and market entry.
Anonymised advisory patterns and illustrative examples.
See the depth and format of a private written review.
Executive Brief, Boardroom Review and Strategic Decision Memo.
Senior operators applying to contribute to private reviews.