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Ajoy Guha Associates Presents:
COST REDUCTION STRATEGIES Methodologies, Strategies and Steps to Reduce Cost & Enhance PROFIT directly Organization-wide practical approach & to keep your Competitive Edge forever
Facilitator : Mr Ajoy K. Guha Duration : 1 or 2 Days
1. RATIONALE Competitive pressure on companies has never been greater. Sales price keeps going down & cost of
doing business keeps going up. Today there is so much pressure on costs. There are two approaches to
maintaining a healthy P&L. Cut cost & improve sales. Today businesses are trying to find out how cost
cutting will not only help you to bring down your cost of doing business, but it should directly contribute
to customer service and growth of the company. Only this way you can stay competitive.
Cash is like oxygen to a company. This is saying the obvious. However, not so obvious is the following:
Keeping operating expenses at reasonable levels has assumed greater importance in recent years and
conserving cash is no less important than making more sales.
Every business, even the most successful one, faces cash trap situation at various times in the course of
operation. Some develop preventive and precautionary measures to minimize their occurrence or effect.
Too many businesses scramble to put out one cash trap fire after another.
Has this workshop worked for others? It has, in my 28 years career. This is a function where every little
counts. Cost Reduction and Control adds to Net Profit.
2. KEY FOCUS AREAS
Increasing sales makes it necessary for a company to find money in order to provide precious working
capital, while cost reduction costs virtually nothing. A rupee saved is a rupee added to the company’s
bottom line.
The sorry story about the cost reduction programme is that most businesses think in terms of
reducing workforce as a first point. This may be effective in some cases.
But research says that there are other operating areas that should be attended to first. A company needs
to rank the operations and the priorities in which this cost reduction programme is to be perched.
Costs Reduction Strategies programme will give necessary tools for ranking the activities & setting
priorities in the manner the COST REDUCTION STRATEGIES program is to be carried out for utmost
results. It will do more - tell you the steps you need to take during liquidity crisis and re-engineering.
The first point to remember about the concept of costs reduction is that it can be used interchangeably
with the term “profit improvement.” If profit improvement is the glass of water half full, then costs
reduction is the glass of water half empty.
Ideally, all staff from various departments should take Cost Reduction Programme not only as an
opportunity, but a challenge to contribute directly to the profits of the company. The next best thing is to
form a Cost Reduction Committee and approach a costs reduction programme.
3. RESULT AREAS This workshop is about preventive and precautionary measures as well as on-the-spot remedies you can
apply to protect your cash-flow, save lakhs of rupees of your operating expenses, keep yourself liquid
most of the time and thus improve overall operations. Also, involve the various tried out strategies
available which may serve well in your organization too.
Regardless of the current position in the business cycle, cost reduction should be one of the first
resources of management when attempting to improve or stabilize profit. Top executives should not wait
until a stressful economic period to realize that reducing costs can immediately and effectively improve
company’s bottom line performance. Delaying cost reduction can be suicidal. This workshop therefore
aims to:
3.1 For Organisation:
- Emphasize that Cost Reduction is every bodies job
- Keep costs down and get marketing edge on pricing without sacrificing quality.
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- To show how to organize a Planned System for Cost Control.
- Involve tried and tested approaches to collection problems.
- Lay down strategy during Cash Crunch situation.
3.2 For Participants:
To vision, conceptualise and then implement. To improve the process of management. To assure a
system of financial propriety, to establish systems so that management decisions are taken on the basis of
proper information and ensure adherence to the same. BPR, Risk assessment, cost control/reduction,
profitability improvement and bench marking of the best practices.
- To empower participants in their task of COST REDUCTION.
- To understand various cost reduction strategies that may come handy.
- Understand Strategic Cost.
- Empower managers / staff in their task of cost reduction.
- Enable them to become aware of the total economic, psychological and strategic factors involved.
- Encourage proactive methods & share a tested organisation strategy.
- Contribute directly to the company’s profits, no matter which department you work for.
- Inform, enthuse, and inspire.
4. Participants Profile - All department heads and their subordinates. Also, Internal Audit department
with a new dimension to run it as Profit Centre.
5. What will we cover
DAY ONE
- Facts of Cost Reduction Program
- What is Strategic Cost Control
- A CASE STUDIES – in detail
- Work Sampling
- Ranking priorities
- Setting Target
- Concentration Areas
DAY TWO
- Float
- Costs Reduction – 20 Expenses and tried
practices
DAY TWO
- Cash Traps in Contracts
- Dealing with Over due debtors – case
study
- Restructuring and cost control
- Quality of People, Process, Product &
Services
- Customer care and Cost control
- Are you suffering from Active inertia
- Introduction to :
Supply Chain and Cost control
Liquidity Crisis – case study
6. WORKSHOP METHODOLOGY – Participative, interactive presentation, Case Studies, Success
Stories, Problem Discussions and Course Material.
7. WORKSHOP FEES: Will be sent along with the proposal.
IT IS WISER TO BE
M -erging Operations
I -mproving Activities
S -implifying Jobs
E -liminate steps & Jobs
R -educing operations