In addition to the time that Harren Equity Partners professionals personally spend with the portfolio companies, Harren has relationships with a long list of outside operating partners to accomplish objectives which require specific knowledge or skill base. Many of these relationships are either individuals with whom Harren has worked previously or retired top executives across a broad variety of Harren’s target industries. Harren can tap these outside partners for advice or longer term assignments. In particular, Harren’s outside partners have experience with the following:
- Enterprise resource planning system implementation and overall system upgrade and automation
- Lean manufacturing initiatives, statistical process control, benchmarking
- Strategic selling and customer resource management
- Improved access to strategically significant, large customers
- Factory automation
- Foreign sourcing from Asia, Mexico, Central or South America
- Foreign outsourcing to India and Mexico
- Improved strategic sourcing of parts and raw materials