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Quantify & Recover Your Company’s Excess Costs |
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 Your company and investment are disappearing under the weight of excess costs, inefficient processes and short-term corrective actions.
In the best of times, corporations and large businesses are established and run as a group of independently managed business units. Each unit has a set of performance metrics that, when met or exceeded, are often at cross-purposes to company profitability.
In challenging economic times, the affects of these corporate inefficiencies can be catastrophic.
The typical approach to cost cutting is a dramatic reduction of inventory and employees to push down costs – an approach that hurts net income in the short term and destroys long-term company viability.
The solution executed by eChain Technology is a targeted series of improvements that are orchestrated to work together to pull down excess inventory and costs while improving service levels and the core business. Results in as little as 3 months can increase net income even when sales are declining.
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What is the eChain Assessment? |
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 The eChain Assessment is a Gateway service offering.
We want the opportunity to demonstrate our superior capabilities in order to convince you to let us implement our recommended enhancements for your company.
We have the tools, experience and track record to go a great job analyzing and fixing supply-chain and operations issues. We are supply-chain, solutions and operations efficiency experts. We understand the difficulty of internally executing significant cross-functional changes.
We work within your existing technology framework to maximize your realization returns and minimize your spend to achieve them. We provide strategic recommendations and tactical, easily implemented and immediately impactful action plans.
Our goal is to immediately begin demonstrating improvements in your inventory, service levels and working capital. Longer term goals include improving your product forecasting, rationalizing your SKU’s and inventory, reduce total inventory stock, identify core SKU’s and define order thresholds and targets. We want to show you how to best utilize your procurement/purchasing, forecasting and ordering systems if necessary. We will provide you strategic recommendations that are backed by solid analysis. Our goal is to make you as competitive and profitable as possible for your particular business. |
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What is Included and How Does the Assessment Reduce Costs? |
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Quantify the Excess Cost Opportunity
Using our proprietary tools, we can tell how much excess cost your company is carrying in excess inventory, lost sales, etc. We can determine what cost and net income impacts can be expected by implementing the recommended improvements. This is a high level ROI estimate that we calculate in a few hours using your information.
The subsequent activities determine the specific actions that are needed to deliver the expected cost savings. We use the low hanging fruit method to identify and fix the easiest problems first. These are issues that are easy and inexpensive to fix, but have the highest value return.
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