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A – Cost Management

  • Cost models that can range from simple to complex across all industrial segments
  • These models will deliver information that will be used by the business to:
    1. Set prices
    2. Focus the business on using its resources effectively
    3. Bring in the concept of internal demand and supply of services
    4. Bring in a culture of cost awareness
    5. Identify the profit delivered by products, services and transactions, differentiated by:
        • Customer segment, and sometimes by customer
        • Distribution channel & geography
        • Product line
    6. Identify the profit distribution by line of business
    7. Establish strategic options

B – Performance management

i.  Corporate level scorecards

ii. Business unit, departmental and even individual scorecards

iii. Real time scorecard reporting

C – Cost & Performance training

i.  Seminars and workshops

ii. Corporate, department and business unit high level and/or detailed training

D – Cost Reduction

i.  Selection of the right cost reduction strategy to use – will be specific for each business

ii. Agile methodology for implementing the selected cost reduction strategy – quick wins plus longer-term actions to keep reductions sustainable

E – Budgeting & Planning

i. Blend of Activity Based Costing and Zero Based Budgeting (ZBB)

ii. Demand based budgeting

iii. Blend of cost reduction and ZBB

F – Ongoing support

i. Model updates if required

ii. Client team technical support

G – Outsource service

i.  For their smaller clients, who cannot afford the software costs, we can set and run the models for them with our staff

ii. One-time fee for implementation plus a contract to provide monthly reporting from the models

A major benefit to clients is that they get to see the results and understand the value provided before they make a major investment in the systems and people themselves