Draft: Capex Strategy
Capex strategy software for whole-business capital allocation
From strategic intent to capital decisions.
Weissr Capex Strategy lets capital-intensive companies design, compare and decide on whole-business strategic alternatives in minutes — not months. Replace the bottom-up project list with a top-down, system-level view of how every site, line and machine should evolve.
+100%
Potential uplift in future cash flow
* Based on Weissr methodology — see our guide
25+ yrs
Capital allocation expertise, productised
1,000+
Production sites worldwide
Built for organisations managing $10M+ annual capex across multiple sites, divisions, and currencies.
RETHINKING CAPITAL ALLOCATION
Most capex processes answer the wrong question.
The question most organisations ask is: “Which projects should we approve?” The question that drives long-term value is different: “What is the optimal use of capital across our entire asset base?” Shifting from the first to the second requires a different framework — not just better project analysis.
“Significant for winning corporations is that they understand that the ongoing process of consolidation continues unabated, even in growing markets. They plan years ahead for these developments, resulting in making fewer bad and more good capex decisions.”
Fredrik Weissenrieder, Founder & Author
BUILT FOR
Different roles. One strategic framework.
Capex Strategy serves the executives who set long-term direction and the teams who model, compare and present the options to the board.
CEO · Group CEO · President
Capital allocation is one of the most consequential things you do. But most capex processes are bottom-up — strategy emerges from project lists, not the other way around. You need a system that lets you set the direction and see how every investment decision follows from it.
What Weissr Capex Strategy gives you
- ✓A system-level view of how capital creates value across the full asset base
- ✓Structured comparison of whole-business strategic alternatives — not individual projects
- ✓Long-horizon cash flow modelling that supports board-level decisions
- ✓Clear strategic directives that govern every downstream budget and investment decision
- ✓Scenario testing against market, demand and policy changes
- ✓Closed-loop feedback from execution back into strategy
CFO · Group CFO · VP of Finance
You need more than financial control — you need strategic capital allocation the board can trust. Right now the link between long-term strategy and the projects being approved is too often implicit, inconsistent, or missing entirely.
What Weissr Capex Strategy gives you
- ✓Strategy-driven capital allocation — every approved investment traceable to strategic intent
- ✓Whole-company cash flow model for long-term financial planning
- ✓Site-level strategic parameters that feed directly into Capital Budgeting
- ✓Audit trail from strategic decision to capital approval to execution
- ✓Scenario planning and sensitivity testing for board reporting
- ✓One coherent framework across divisions, geographies and currencies
COO · Head of Strategy · VP Operations · FP&A Director
You know where the real constraints and opportunities are across the asset base. But translating that operational knowledge into a defensible, board-ready strategic case takes months of manual modelling. Weissr gives you the structured environment to do it in days.
What Weissr Capex Strategy gives you
- ✓Full production network model — existing and future assets in one place
- ✓Build and compare Strategic Building Blocks: expansions, closures, upgrades, relocations
- ✓Combine SBBs into Strategic Alternatives and model their full cash-flow impact
- ✓Instant scenario and sensitivity testing — no spreadsheet rebuilds
- ✓Automated presentations and change logs — board-ready at all times
- ✓Clear handoff to Capital Budgeting — strategy becomes governing directives
HOW CAPEX STRATEGY WORKS
One model of your industrial system. Unlimited strategic alternatives.
Capex Strategy models your full production network — existing assets from ERP/EAM and future assets that don’t yet exist — and lets you evaluate strategic alternatives built from Strategic Building Blocks (SBBs): the structural moves that change how value is created across your asset base.
THE FIVE TYPES OF STRATEGIC BUILDING BLOCKS
Capacity expansion
Add capacity where demand and economics support it.
Technology upgrade
Modernise lines and machines for cost or product mix.
Assets replacement
Replace end-of-life assets in line with strategy.
Closure & consolidation
Close or consolidate sites as an active strategic move.
Relocation
Move production to better-positioned assets or geographies.
THE SIX-STEP CAPEX STRATEGY PROCESS
FROM STRATEGY TO ACTION
Strategy decisions become governing directives — not slide decks.
Once a preferred Strategic Alternative is approved, Capex Strategy generates the long-term needs, strategic directives and asset-category envelopes that frame every budget cycle — and flow directly into Weissr Capital Budgeting.
- Site strategy — Develop, Maintain or Close (with target year) per site
- Max payback years — acceptable investment horizon by site
- Asset-category priorities — where capital should be steered, where held back
- Strategy description — intent, context and rationale in plain language
In Capital Budgeting, these become Capital Allocation Pools at Group, Division, Business Area and BU level. Every project approved is consistent with the strategy you decided on.
SITE STRATEGY PARAMETERS — EXAMPLE
CAPABILITIES
Built for whole-business decisions, not project paperwork.
Compare alternatives in a click instead of days. Stress-test against any market scenario. Let the chosen strategy govern every downstream capex decision.
PART OF A CLOSED LOOP
Capex strategy that makes every next budget cycle and project smarter.
Your asset base is at the centre of everything. Weissr Capex is three tightly integrated modules sharing one asset base — every capital expenditure linked to exactly one asset, so execution data updates the asset record and feeds back into strategy.
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From Capex Strategy →
- Long-term investment needs and capital trajectories
- Strategic directives and site-level direction
- Asset-category priorities and organisational envelopes
From Capital Budgeting →
- Approved budgets with authorised spend levels per project
- Approved scenarios with conditions and phasing
- Full approval history on every Capex Request
↺ Back from execution
- Actual costs vs. approved budgets
- Asset updates and bottom-up demand signals
- Close-out data for post-investment review
Integrates with your existing systems. Direct integration with financial data from ERP and asset data from EAM systems.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Real results from capital-intensive industries.
“We have actively deployed their approach to capital allocation and have executed investments that are creating real competitive advantage.”
Stephen Scherger
EVP & CFO, Graphic Packaging International
“The simplicity in the methodology has helped us focus on company cash flow and long-term strategy. We have a much better understanding of the relationship between investments and shareholder value.”
Henrik Sjölund
President & CEO, Holmen
Both quotes from our book Redesigning Capex Strategy — published by McGraw Hill.
FEATURED BOOK
Redesigning Capex Strategy
Fredrik Weissenrieder & Daniel Linden · Published by McGraw Hill
This groundbreaking guide provides a brand-new approach that you can use to vastly improve the impact of your capex decisions — and dramatically increase company cash flow. It’s all about focusing on more sustainable operations and processes from an enterprise-portfolio perspective.
“It’s extraordinary and nothing short of dropping a bomb in the world of capital allocation. This is not about incremental improvement. It’s a radical transformation of how you allocate capital.”
John Williams, CEO Paper Excellence
FREE GUIDE FOR BUSINESS LEADERS
Unlock the secrets to superior capital allocation
Download our comprehensive guide to learn how our holistic approach, backed by decades of experience, can boost your company cash flow by up to 100%.
- ✓Proven strategies implemented across 1,000+ production sites worldwide
- ✓How to eliminate common pitfalls in traditional capital budgeting
- ✓The systems-thinking methodology behind the Weissr approach
- ✓How holistic capex decisions guide long-term value creation
See Weissr Capex Strategy in action.
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