Cost Reduction
Agilitas has a 10-factor methodology designed to streamline your organization and reposition its operating model to meet future needs. By lowering costs you save capital, reduce borrowings and improve profit. Within 4 weeks of starting, we will provide you a reliable estimated savings target.
How do you score?
We invite you to self-assess each of the ten categories below, from 1 (needs attention) to 10 (fully optimised).
What we examine
supply chain
We look at materials, warehousing, movements such as shipping, road and rail and manufacturing. Whether you have a lab or move resources we have experience in operations designed to streamline delivery of product to your clients at low cost.
assets
Your core operating assets, other assets, real estate, offices and leases are identified and analyzed to see where reductions and divestments are possible and over what time and cost to do so.
outsource
Options to divest certain functions are reviewed along with cost saving analysis. Tendering advice can also be provided.
offshore
We have extensive offshoring experience in multiple locations. Staff work your hours and multiple cost scenarios will be presented. When we consider these tactics, we also redesign roles and tasks such that onshore staff can be left with higher order functions or important client facing ones. Near shore and consolidation of your existing geographic locations are also considered.
procurement
We will look at your procurement controls, centralization of the procurement function and lifecycle spend management. We examine the structure, controls and perform a financial analysis. We then also consider aggregate spend and recommend suppliers where license or service negotiations could be undertaken.
tech stack
Your architecture and applications represent a large and unique cost category. These tools support and protect your business as well as help grow it. We examine the optimal structure and applications needed for your business now and into the future. Recommendations typically involve sunset clauses for redundant or duplicated applications, alternative structures and a framework for lifecycle cost management.
talent
Your people — whether employees, contractors or outsourced providers — are key to operations and leadership. Over time, or resulting from M&A, tasks can become redundant, duplicated or misaligned with future direction. Through job analysis, surveys and report reviews we pinpoint these, and we also perform salary benchmarking, role automation and hiring in other locations.
AI
This focus is solely on the ability to replace and enhance roles using Artificial Intelligence. By examining tasks and your technology stack, we find faster and lower cost options that typically also enhance data assets.
structure
Your structure needs to support existing and future state. Reporting lines, integration of divisions, and merging of operations are examined to identify more optimal structures.
analysis
Over time and through financial analysis we look at spend categories and report these to you. Discretionary spend and spend variations are a focus of this, and the analysis helps to determine quick wins as well as inform the procurement and negotiations step.
Let's define what winning looks like.
Tell us the outcome you need. We'll bring the method to get there.
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