Cut the fat, not the muscle: cost improvement strategies for long-term profitability
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Preface xmi
Chapter 1: improving future
profitability takes more
than just slashing costs 1
Watch Out for Across the Board Cost Cutting 2
Avoid Cutting Too Much, Too Fast 2
Be Tough on All Discretionary Spending 4
How to Identify Discretionary Costs 5
Spending Money to Make Money 6
Case Study: Making Increased Market Share the Sole Objective 6
Cost Analysis May Mask Cost Reduction Options 8
Analyze Cost Allocation Carefully 9
Eliminating Unassignable Costs 10
How to Relate Cost Reduction to Profit Improvement 11
Case Study: Resisting a Specific Overhead Allocation 12
Summing Up: Old Style Cost Reduction Techniques Won t
Cut It Anymore 13
Chapter 2: top level strategies that turn
cost cutting objectives into
profit improvement activities 15
Eliminating Functions to Cut the Fat 15
Case Study: Analyzing the R D Budget to Eliminate Functions 16
Four Ways to Gain Control over Manufacturing Costs 18
Outsourcing Administrative and Support Services to Cut the Fat 20
Case Study: Reducing Costs for Credit and Collection Services 21
Case Study: Outsourcing the Maintenance Function 22
Government s Role in Fostering Meaningful Cost Reductions 24
What Industry Would Like Government to Do 26
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Five Elements Required for a Successful National
Industrial Policy 26
Reduce Costs with Distribution Partnering 27
Summing Up: Zero in on Your Key Objectives 28
Chapter 3: gaining consensus for cost
reduction strategies to improve
asset management 31
Success Criteria Should Be Based on Common Asset
Performance Ratios 31
How to Analyze Asset Ratios 33
Forming a Cost Reduction Committee Can Become
an Excuse for Action 34
Why Cost Reduction Committees Fail 35
How to Gain a Consensus of Prioritized Goals 39
Example: Short Term Cost Improvement Goals Selected
by a Division of a Chemical Products Processor 40
How to Use Triangulation to Establish the Criteria
for Success 40
Using Decision Trees to Gain Consensus 45
Case Study: Overcoming a Cash Flow Problem 46
Summing Up: Overcoming the Pitfalls to Successful
Cost Reduction Planning 50
Chapter 4: how to use group consensus
to select areas of cost
reduction/profit improvement
opportunities 51
How to Recognize Three Warning Signs
of Declining Profitability 51
How Management Control Assures Planning Success 55
Include the Decision Makers in the Decision Making Process 56
Choosing Between the Two Dominant Approaches
to Consensus Building 58
How to Install a Mission Statement Environment 58
Six Steps to Preparing an Effective Mission Statement 62
Continuous Improvement Through Benchmarking 62
Partnering as a Consensus Tool in Both Purchasing
and Benchmarking Practices 65
Wedding the Consensus Mission Statement to Benchmarking 66
Example: How a Mission Statement May Be Detailed for Action 66
Contents vii
Summing Up: Group Consensus on Cost Reduction Objectives
Leads to Successful Group Implementation 67
Chapter 5: how to analyze expenditures
as investments to meet
consensus goals 71
Use Expenditure Analysis to Match Costs to Goal Achievement 71
Step One: Initiate the Cost Discovery Process 72
Using the Discovery Process for Construction Projects 73
Using Analytical Questioning in the Cost Discovery Process 74
Step Two: Design the Cost Analysis Decision Tree 75
Step Three: Establish Alternative Overall Strategies 77
Step Four: Select and Schedule Tasks to Achieve These Goals 79
Case Study: Using the Decision Tree to Define Strategic Options 79
Case Study: Making Reduced Asset Possession a Primary Goal 81
Applying Consensus Quality Improvement Through the Use
of Fishbone Diagrams 83
Key Rules for Maximizing Use of the Fishbone Technique 86
Summing Up: Cost Improvement Insights Gained when
Treating Expenditures as Investments 88
Chapter 6: how to conduct organizational
realignments to foster
cost reductions 91
Changing Procedures to Reduce Costs 91
It s No Longer Acceptable to State, That s Not My Job! 92
Case Study: How One Company Cured an Ongoing
Customer Service Problem 93
Making a Just in Time System Work in an Incoming
Goods Warehouse 96
How to Involve the Product Design Group in the First
Stages of All Cost Reduction Efforts 97
How to Practice Asset Conservation in a Fast
Growth Organization 98
How Acquiring Companies Assume Postponed Cost
Reduction Opportunities 99
Considering Short Term Cost Reductions and Sustained
Profitability Simultaneously 100
Implementing Solutions for the Fast Growth Company s
Management in the Good Times 102
Summing Up: How the Present Organization Works Can Be
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a Clue to Introducing Major Cost Reduction Motivators 103
Chapter 7: leveraging cost reductions
to increase profitability 105
How Leveraging Has Been Applied by Successful Strategists 105
Organizing Data in a Chaotic Atmosphere 106
Seeking Order Through Leveraging 107
Data Collection Processes Used for Pre Selected Cost
Reduction Targets 108
Avoid Being Trapped by Short Term Thinking 109
Approaching Chaos with Critical, Non Linear Thinking 110
How Leveraging Builds on Accepted Management Theory 111
The Use of Leveraging Is Not Limited to Linear Thinking 112
Make Better Use of Comparison Data Rather than Simply
Demanding More Data 114
How to Use the Cost Reduction Opportunity Curve 115
Three Examples of Practical Pareto Analyses Used
in Cost Reduction 118
Applying Leveraging Principles to Value Analysis Activities 122
Applying Leveraging to Just in Time Applications 123
How to Improve Time Management with Leveraging 126
Summing Up: How to Effect Large Savings for Relatively
Minimal Effort 129
Chapter 8: cut the fat with true costing
techniques 131
Analyzing the Cost vs. Benefit of True Costing 131
Separating Fixed Costs from Variable Ones 132
How True Costing Makes Commonly Used Breakeven
Curves Obsolete 135
Separating Costs when Evaluating Potential
Cost Improvements 136
Three Methods to Determine Base Data for
Profit/Volume Analyses 137
Using the Leveraging Principle in True Cost Analysis 140
Total Profit/Volume Analysis Reveals Other Cost
Reduction Options 142
Simulating Total Company Profit Improvement from
Positive Cost Reduction Actions 143
Using the Hip Roof Curve to Select Cost Reduction Options 149
Using Activity Based Costing to Identify Cost
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Reduction Opportunities 151
Case Study: Using a Skill/Time Analysis to Determine
True Cost Determining 152
Case Study: Determining the True Cost of
Maintenance Services 153
Case Study: How Changing the Cost Base Became
the Major Factor in True Pricing 154
How to Apply Direct Costing to Reduce Overall Costs 155
Summing Up: Start Cutting the Fat with True Costing
Techniques 156
Chapter 9: managing your time more
efficiently can snowball into
a company wide effort 159
Apply Asset Control to Time Use on a Daily Basis 160
How to Cut the Fat Through the Application
of Time Management 160
Case Study: How a Small Company Examined the Causes
of Their Quality Problem Before Dealing
with the Effect 163
How to Overcome the Overkill Syndrome 163
How to Gain Representative Data of the Causes
of Time Mismanagement 164
How to Use the Proven Activity Sampling Approach 167
Disregard Prior Concepts of Your Time Use 167
How to Categorize Work for Future Analysis 168
How to Select Random Times for Objective Observations 170
How to Use the Collected Sampling Data 176
How to Measure Improvements in Acceptable
Quantitative Terms 176
How to Handle Interruptions 177
Summing Up: Spreading the Improved Time
Management Concept 181
Chapter 10: continuous improvement
(kaizen) through
continuous analyses 183
Applying Cost Reduction Discipline on a Continuing Basis 183
Case Study: How to Use Revenue per Employee
as a Base 184
Test, Measure, Train . . . Then Do It All Again 184
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Case Study: How First Level Supervisors Controlled
Time Use 185
Case Study: Eliminating Time Charged
to Irregular Activities 185
Using Activity Based Management (ABM)
as a Testing Tool 188
How Continuous Improvement Uses Accurate Costing
to Assure Activity Based Management 190
How a Purchasing Group Can Foster Cost Reductions 191
Case Study: Creating Savings by True Costing
of the Purchasing Function 192
Identifying Core Activities 193
Use Available Cost Reduction Checklists to Provide
a Quick Start to the Test Process 194
Examples of Cost Reduction Checklists 194
Initiate Cost Reduction Technique Training
to Gain Continuous Results 198
Four Steps to Assure Training for Results 204
How to Make Cost Reduction a Prime Objective
of the Training Function 206
How to Prepare a Potential Trainee for the Cost
Reduction Seminar 207
Summing Up: Assuring Continuous Improvement Using
the Continuous Testing and Training Approach 209
Chapter 11: increase productivity by
pooling the human
resource s talents 217
Using a Team Approach to Magnify Individual Effort 218
Look for True Cost Reduction Opportunities 219
How the Failure of the One Man/One Job Philosophy Led
to the Brink of Economic Folly 220
Pooling Talent for Increased Productivity
and Cost Savings 222
Case Study: How to Improve the Management
of Multiple Skill Groups 223
Case Study: How Talent Pooling Cut the Costs
of Preventive Maintenance 225
Management Control Is Crucial to Cutting the Fat 227
Summing Up: How to Assure the Long Term Effects
of Cost Cutting 229
Contents xi
Chapter 12: cut the fat without cutting
customer service 231
Selling the Cost Reduction Program to Top Management 231
Case Study: How to Make Your Business Their
Business as Well 233
Using Logistics Management to Study Inventory Cost
Reduction Opportunities 235
Capitalizing on the Extended Enterprise Contribution
to Cost Savings 236
Using Value Analysis as a Customer Driven Tool
for Cost Improvement 237
Standardize or Customize? 239
Developing Cost Reduction Clues from Customer Comments 240
How to Manage Sales Strategy in Tough Times 241
Summing Up: Using Sales Strategies
in Long Term Budgeting 243
Chapter 13: final thoughts on cutting
the fat, not the muscle 245
Use a Practical Design Approach to Gain Cost
Reductions from the Beginning 245
Group Technology as a Cost Saving Tool 248
How to Apply Logistics Management Principles
in Cost Improvement Strategies 249
How Re Designed Cost Systems Aid Efforts to Cut the Fat 250
How to Use Strategic Sourcing to Define Overall
Supply Strategies 252
Cutting the Costs of Outside Services 252
Tips on Motivating and Maintaining Supplier
Cost Reductions 254
How to Maintain Employee Morale During
and After Rightsizing 256
Basing Rightsizing Decisions on a Full Analysis
of Work Flow 258
Index 261
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