How can you develop large, sustainable, enterprise-wide cost savings? Immediately increase cash flow while providing long-term cost reductions and operating efficiencies? Enterprise Cost Reduction improves short-term cash flow through staff reductions, benefit plan restructuring, tax refunds, real estate portfolio financing, inventory reductions and other quick win improvements. Long-term savings are driven by organizational restructuring, supply chain improvements, tax structure arbitrage, implementation of shared services and process/technology integration.

Our Enterprise Cost Reduction solutions offer you large, sustainable, enterprise-wide cost savings. It immediately increases cash flow while providing long-term cost reductions and operating efficiencies.

Enterprise Cost Reduction results are:

• Fast  Measurable ROI benefits appear within 90-120 days. 
• Sustainable  Increased efficiencies continue to generate long-term savings.
• Cost effective   Return on initial assessment fees is typically at least 10 times the investment.
• Comprehensive   Enterprise-wide solutions yield deeper cost reductions.
• Integrated   Industry veterans examine finance, operations, human resource and technology issues for maximum overall savings.
  

Our solutions include:

Acquisition assimilation  We can help you integrate an acquisition more effectively from a cost management perspective. Our enterprise-level review of a retailer that doubled in size through a single acquisition covered distribution center locations, hours, and staffing models.  We also studied the real estate portfolio and the back office functions. We reorganized the organization and identified process improvements that could yield over $25 million in savings, most of which was achievable in 90-120 days.

Development of an enterprise cost reduction plan  We take an aggressive yet realistic approach, prioritizing our recommendations into an executable implementation plan. These strategies have worked for our clients and we have found that on average they actually implement 70% to 80% of our recommendations. For companies that need near-term cost reductions and improvement in working capital, Enterprise Cost Reduction delivers rapid identification and implementation of cost saving programs across the entire organization.

Tools  Using proprietary tools such as PROFIT for financial processes and SPEED for supply chain assessment, we evaluate your company's functions, activities, and processes relative to best and common industry practices and benchmarks.  We then recommend changes to improve corporate performance.