First Wave Partners provides operational strategy and consulting services to help small businesses achieve sustained growth through improved processes, with specialized expertise in areas like operations management, inventory control, supply chain analysis, and capacity planning. They take a customized, team-based approach and have experience developing strategic plans and implementing solutions that have helped clients in industries like medical devices and food catering expand successfully.

1. First Wave Partners
Small Business Solutions

2. Value Proposition:
 Equivalent cost to supervisor level
staff add
 Expert analysis of operational
needs
 Decisive and accelerated
Our Value 
execution of projects
Defined roadmap for sustained
growth and improvement
Provide guidance, strategy,
 Confidence to pursue growth
and customized tools to fully without constraints
leverage your growth into
best profits and margins

3. Our Principals:
 Learn first – then act
 No copy & paste of canned
solutions
 Foster team buy-in for process
improvements
Our Method  Manage execution with the team
to ensure ownership
Seek first to understand your
business and become a part
of your team
Work with your team for
implementation to ensure
ownership and sustainability

4. Solutions:
 Strategy Deployment
 Operations Management
 Capacity Planning
 Inventory Management
 Supply Chain Analysis
Our Services
Operational Excellence as a
competitive advantage is not
just for large companies
We distill the best practices
of global companies into
tailored, sustainable
solutions for small business

5. Deliverables:
 Organic Growth Strategy
 Annual Business Planning
Process
Strategy  Business Initiatives with Balanced
Scorecard

Deployment 
Action Plans for Key Initiatives
Structured Bonus Programs to
Engage Key Staff Members
Helps manage your company
beyond budgets.
Three-year plan to monthly
actions and metrics.

6. Deliverables:
 Weekly Dashboard for
Service, Quality, and Cost Targets
 Recommended Bonus Program to
Engage All Associates
Operations  5-Why Approach to Quality and
Service Improvement
Management  Cost Reduction Project List and
Management
Make quality, service, and
productivity the heart of your
business
Establish the right systems
and ownership to achieve
results

7. Deliverables:
 Inventory Analysis – Cost and
Frequency
 Designate Material Planning
Methods (MRP Settings)
Inventory  Optimizing Build and Order
Quantities
Management  Inventory Turns Target and Action
Plan
 Slow / Non-Moving Inventory
Establish the right inventory Analysis and Action Plan
control systems to maximize
cash flow and service levels
Align inventory and workflow
to customer demand

8. Deliverables:
 Bottleneck Identification
 Capacity Analysis
 Future Capacity Planning Tool
Capacity  Equipment Planning and ROI
Analysis
Planning  Contingency Plans for Demand
Spikes
 Facility Expansion / Consolidation
Analysis
Identifies bottlenecks in
capacity limits
Ensure output is maximized
and create an expansion
plan to increase output by,
20%, 50%, and 100%.

9. Deliverables:
 Supplier Risk Analysis and
Mitigation Plans
 Spend Analysis
Supply Chain  Vendor Managed Inventory /
Blanket Orders Processes

Management Bid and Negotiation Strategies for
Pricing and Terms
 Supplier Agreement Template
 Commodity Forecasting of Prices
Aligns supply chain to
support business objectives
Identify weaknesses and
develop contingencies
Leverage opportunities for
better cost, lead time, and
payment terms

10. 30 Day Assessment
 Baseline Balanced Scorecard
 Strengths and Weakness
Ops Mgmt Module
 Galvanize the Team
Roadmap  Create Stability
 Generate Early Savings
Targeted Modules
 Supply Chain Analysis
 Inventory Management
 Capacity Planning
Strategy Deployment
 Coordinated with annual
budget process
 Exit plan development

11. Prior Projects
Facility Expansion: Assisted
Med Device company in opening
a new facility in the Midwest.
 Created Decision Model
 Negotiated local incentives,
lease terms, and build outs
 Managed equipment
negotiations and installation
 Set inventory targets and
min/max signals
 Operational within 6 mo of
project approval

12. Prior Projects
Growth Strategy: Assisted
Iron Chef map out expansion of
child catering division.
 Capacity analysis of current
kitchens
 Incremental cost analysis
 Staffing recommendations
to grow business
 Fixed cost study of
expanding delivery
 5-year forecasting of P&L

13. First Wave Partners
Small Business Solutions
First Wave Partners, LLC
11868 Gage Dr.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730
info@firstwavepartners.com
www.firstwavepartners.com
714-907-6903