Operational Due Diligence

Management and investors face growing pressure to make informed decisions. Understanding operational strengths, inefficiencies, opportunities and risks is critical. At L.E.K. Consulting, we specialize in operational due diligence (ODD). We provide clients with a rapid and analytically driven approach tailored to deal cycles. Our expertise helps organizations unlock value and mitigate risks, ensuring that business decisions are built on a solid operational foundation.

L.E.K. has leading capabilities across commercial due diligence (CDD), vendor due diligence (VDD) and ODD and has developed integrated due diligence offerings that can simplify and accelerate your deal process. 

Our ODD capabilities help you maximize value and improve efficiency 

Operational health check

We evaluate clients’ maturity of processes and systems against best practices, focusing on efficiency and key performance metrics. This analysis provides organizations with a clear view of strengths and areas for improvement. 

Manufacturing efficiency and labor productivity

Our team identifies and assesses productivity levers like equipment upgrades, automation opportunities and workflow optimization to boost efficiency and throughput.  

Procurement

We evaluate supply risks, critical raw material dependencies and cost-saving opportunities in procurement synergies and strategies to ensure resilience and efficiency. 

CapEx, asset health, and growth requirements

We assess your supply chain’s ability to scale to meet business objectives. Evaluating capital expenditure (CapEx) requirements and manufacturing productivity improvements together can inform what CapEx is required to meet growth objectives and change deal economics.  

Synergy assessment

We help identify revenue uplift and cost synergies across sourcing, operations, logistics and back-office functions like HR and finance. 

Organization and G&A benchmarking

Through peer benchmarking and spans-and-layers analysis, we help optimize organizational efficiency, fostering lean operations and streamlined governance. 

Supply chain resilience

We assess your supply chain’s ability to adapt to external challenges in order to identify risks and mitigation strategies that can minimize disruptions related to suppliers, geopolitics and network vulnerabilities. 

Margin expansion

Our bottom-up assessment uncovers margin uplift opportunities, helping you optimize costs and scale effectively while delivering measurable improvements.