Synaptic

The Results You Want. Sooner.

Synaptic at a Glance
Synaptic Consultings mission is to help clients reduce costs and increase profits.
Founded by former M+M Mars/MEI Global Engineering VP Jeffrey Anthony and former Siemens Finance and
Administration VP Garth Proechel, Synaptic delivers: The Results You Want. Sooner.
Product and Process Cost Reduction
Some of the generic steps we incorporate, but not limited to are:
Streamline product Bill-of-Materials through Value Engineering directed redesign using highly integrated
components
Contain manufacturing cost through Lean Kaizen event
Implement cash flow analysis & forecasting techniques and modeling
Review customer A/R aging, implement improved collection and follow-up techniques
Review/create inventory procedures, put in place the discipline to identify slow moving inventory reserve set-up
and write-off procedures based on the cash flow forecast
Analysis or creation of customer/product line margin analysis that support current/future pricing strategy.
Analyze in detail all direct/indirect cost components for compliance and noncompliant (slash and burn)
CFO and CTO Services
Synaptic Interim C-level consultants are experienced executives who have saved businesses from extinction; grown a
business from the point of view of sales, human bandwidth, and infrastructure; acquired smaller businesses to back-fill the
existing product portfolio. Companies that are resource challenged, or dont feel the need to hire a full time CFO or CTO,
may find engaging a interim executive to be a better alternative. Synaptic Consultings CFO and CTO core competencies
include but are not limited to the following:
Cash management (clean-up of Table Cash) to maximize cash flow
Cost control (manage costs associated with running the business keeping in line with budget/projections, limiting
exposure and thereby maximizing profits
Operating working capital management (lowering on-going working capital and maximizing ROI)
Distribution and logistics (day-to-day distribution, warehousing and customer service)
Lean process improvements/migration (introduction to lean accounting that rids an organization of outdated
measurement systems and replaced with one organizational harmonious set of goals and objectives)
Financial due diligence (examination prior to acquisition, merger and sale)
Diversify product portfolio through Collaboration with Customers, Sales, Marketing, and Product Management
Lead all aspects of Product Development
Bring external technological advances into the business and manage intellectual property
Risk Modulated Project Management
Combine the broad visibility and early warning strengths of classical critical path method (CPM) project
management with the significantly accelerated time-to-market performance of Agile methods
Increase accuracy of project estimation by an average of 50% using Synaptic Consultings patented Risk
Assessed Estimation methodology (developed in conjunction with Lehigh University)
Bring an outsiders dispassionate objectivity and an insiders passionate commitment to client success by
engaging Synaptic to chair or facilitate ongoing Project/Program Office activities
Outsourced Product Development Services
Identify, define, and manage requirements with Customer Centric Innovation -- combining advertising industrylike focus groups with rapid prototyping
Guide overall product development and deployment across all resources using Risk Modulated Project
Management -- whether resources are exclusively client employed, outsourced, or combination of both
Leverage the power of Synaptic Consultings global network of leading hardware and software developers
throughout the Americas and the EU to develop subsystems or completed products including every detail from
documentation to packaging