Case Type: reduce costs; operations strategy.
Consulting Firm: AlixPartners second round job interview.
Industry Coverage: Freight Delivery, Shipping Services; Transportation.
Case Interview Question #00520: Our client Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts of privately held or publicly traded companies, or divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of family owned or closely held companies; balance sheet restructurings; acquisition 
financings; and growth capital investments in mature companies. The firm was founded in 1992 and is based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Madison Dearborn Partners has recently bought a metal processing company in Chicago. You have been hired as a consultant by MDP and they want you to re-design the supply chain system for the finished goods produced by this Chicago metal processing company. How will you proceed?
Additional Information:
The client MDP has three specific objectives.
1. They are concerned only about the outbound finished goods
2. Minimize Cost
3. Reliable product delivery
Suggested Structure:
For a supply chain design and optimization case like this one, the candidate should be willing to explore the following issues:
