JAY Partners Oy
Our competences
We are focused to serve your needs in operational, strategic and investment related questions and in mergers and acquisitions
Investment studies
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We provide you with extensive consultancy services to guide you through the investment process from identification to appraisal and post completion audit.
Business opportunity study
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We help you to screen the potentially most attractive business concepts and assess their high-level feasibility. This assessment combines plausibility of assumptions with all relevant aspects of the investment feasibility in order-of-magnitude level prior to going into a complex feasibility study process. Business opportunity study gives you an understanding of the merits as well as the possible deal killers.
Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
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We provide you with bankable documentation that has all relevant aspects influencing the feasibility of the investment comprehensively and assessed. Feasibility documents will provide the stakeholders a clear understanding of the business logic, projected financial performance and risk profile as well as the assumptions behind to be applied in the investment decision.
Second opinion and risk assessment
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We review plans, documentation or third-party reports thoroughly. The second opinion assesses the plausibility of assumptions and business logic to find possible red flags in the business case. In addition, the second opinion addresses whether our team comes into the same conclusions as the first opinion.
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Operational excellence
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We focus on advising you on how to improve resource efficiency and productivity of your industrial manufacturing and maintenance processes.
Process and maintenance performance audit
We conduct statistical analyses of process parameters and assess operating practices. The objective is to find sub-optimal practices and unleash measurable improvement in resource efficiency and throughput potential without capital investments. Performance audit can be combined with detailed process management system audit and continuous performance monitoring.
Bottleneck assessment
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We focus performance audit on process bottleneck and assess on the operating practices and management system of the process bottleneck area. The objective is to find levers that can be used for improving the productivity of the bottleneck area without capital investments.
Performance tracking support
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We support you in building and enhancing your current performance tracking system with objective to facilitate stable operation, optimized productivity and continuous improvement. E.g. selection of KPI’s, target setting, structure of standardized reports and visualization of performance.
Strategy
We help you to achieve your goals by proving insights into the business environment and by supporting you in choosing the direction
Strategy process
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We support strategy processes by providing industry and business insights, targeted market information and competitor analyses. We facilitate the strategy process by working closely with the management team and the board of directors to ensure the leaders are committed and support the implementation of the chosen strategy.
Market research
We conduct high-quality market research in wide range of industries and sectors with solid methodological knowledge, competence and track record. Our market research work is based on universally recognized methods of primary and secondary research combining, when needed, direct field interviews and collection and analysis of existing market data.
Business environment assessment
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We help you to anticipate changes in the business environment by interlinking trends and factors that drive demand, competition and substitution or influence operating conditions. Our approach is based on broad understanding of the fundaments that influence the business environment. The objective is to detect early indicators of change, which can have profound impact on your business.
Mergers & Acquisitions
We advise you in finding the right opportunities and help you to understand the potential and the risks associated to the candidate
Target screening and outside-in assessment
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We review the world of opportunities and analyse the interesting targets. We understand well the companies and their behaviour, the assets and their potential, the markets and their opportunities as well as jurisdictions and their implications. Our objective is provide you a reasonable accurate understanding of the potential targets in order to avoid disappointments during costly and cumbersome official processes.
Due diligence and vendor due diligence
We conduct due diligence processes in the areas of product markets, operations and management. Our framework is based on thorough understanding of the business fundamentals in the forest products industries and the team's experience from dozens of due diligence processes. We want to ensure the condition, the risks and the opportunities of the business and asset in consideration are well understood.
Monitoring and post completion audit
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We assist you in tracking the performance of your investment. We analyse the key metrics of the business or the operation regularly, review deviations with the management and assess the changes in the business environment. The objective is to provide a holistic understanding how your investment has performed internally and what changes to performance can be anticipated.