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Seller-side Should-cost Models
Sellers of goods and services can increase profitability with Should-cost strategies. Wisely used by sellers, Should-cost models develop greater internal visibility that strengthens your capacity to create sustainable solutions that improve profitability.
Solutions for the Difficult Supplier
Most supply chain professionals have faced the challenge of a difficult supplier that you cannot replace. Your difficult supplier's product may be designed into your product, or it may be a unique technology or any number of other reasons that make it impractical to change suppliers. When facing these situations,...
Adding two sustainable points to the bottom line in 90 days
Adding two points to the bottom line is possible by replacing silo thinking with cooperation, visibility, and sustainable processes. In the case at hand, the silo mentality at a manufacturer of durable consumer goods had led to a downward spiral of quality and productivity. Accusations flew in all directions, dampening...
35% sustainable throughput improvement in 120 days
How is this rapid improvement possible? The circumstances can be challenging to see, but they are there more often than organizations care to admit. This case involved the introduction of a new vehicle. No capital expenditures were allowed and limited monies for the realignment of existing assembly lines. The lines...
Should-cost Models: Rapid, Reliable Cost Reduction
Should-cost models develop the visibility needed to deliver sustainable value. These powerful tools provide a pathway to rapid, reliable cost reduction. A big claim, yes, but let’s examine the steps to develop this value: Understand the value chain. This knowledge provides the perspective needed to make reliable decisions.Build the should-cost...
Should-cost Models, Why so Scary?
In the spirit of Halloween, I wanted to discuss the scary side of should-cost models – visibility and accountability. The clarifying discipline of should-cost models brings visibility to the corruption that can be hidden in a products’ cost structure. This visibility can be terrifying to the people who buried problems...
Breaching Barriers, the Human Factor
Facts and information are needed to develop solutions, but we cannot ignore the human factor. The human factor is what allows us to use facts and information to develop the solutions needed to breach barriers. Leveraging the human factor by developing the strengths within each team member is a fundamental...
Risk Mitigation Cycle, Future Preparation
Preparation and planning can save your business It is too often the tendency to avoid considering risks until they occur. Let’s face it, it takes budget resources to identify risks and may take even more money and time to adequately mitigate the risk. These actions may seem a distraction when you are...