Planning

A SOLID PLAN IS THE FOUNDATION FOR OPERATIONAL SUCCESS

Whether you are evaluating business opportunities, consolidating operations, weighing expansion options or trying to improve upon key performance indicators, planning can provide the insights you need to confidently move forward. We have extensive planning experience in a wide area of food and beverage operations. It all starts with understanding your business goals, current operations and future needs statements to help ensure any capital investment is used in the most effective manner possible.

Planning Services Include:

  • Master Planning
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Site Search and Selection

Planning

A Solid Plan is the Foundation for Operational Success

Whether you are evaluating business opportunities, consolidating operations, weighing expansion options or trying to improve upon key performance indicators, planning can provide the insights you need to confidently move forward. We have extensive planning experience in a wide area of food and beverage operations. It all starts with understanding your business goals, current operations and future needs statements to help ensure any capital investment is used in the most effective manner possible.

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Master Planning with an Eye to the Future

Forward-looking plans identify your anticipated growth requirements and allow your manufacturing operations to respond quickly and effectively to market demands. We can help you make sound engineering decisions and manage capital expenditures more efficiently with a master plan that encompasses a high-level scope, schematic design, budget and preliminary timelines for a variety of growth scenarios. Our experience includes multi-phased assessments of an individual site or surveying an entire network.

Project Definition Studies

A project definition study is designed to provide answers to the biggest questions first. 

  1. What does the project look like, and what is it designed to accomplish?
  2. What is the project’s likely capital investment?
  3. How long will the project take to implement?

Project Definition Applications

What other topics can you explore through a front-end study?

  • Evaluate developing a new facility versus an expansion

     

  • Determine the operational impact of introducing
    new products or processes

     

  • Weigh co-packing versus in-house manufacturing
  • Perform manufacturing due diligence associated
    with mergers, acquisitions or consolidation

     

  • Assess optimal process flows

     

  • Evaluate automation options

     

  • Gauge utility constraints and consumption
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Site Search and Selection

If you are considering building a ground-up facility, there are a myriad of often competing factors that weigh into site selection. Dennis Group can help you find, select and acquire the location that yields the highest probability of long-term success.

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Food & Beverage Markets Served

We have 30 years of extensive experience in all segments of food and beverage.