Cost Reduction Strategies

We conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplifications and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively.         

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• ORDER PROCESSING -
  -------- Created and implemented a better process for a local chain of retail furniture stores to order office and other operations related supplies with order guidelines.
  The new process saved the company more than $25,000 in the first year alone.
  
  
   
• WORKSTATION RE-ORGANIZATION -
  1.-------- A local printing company had 20 customer service representatives and six were in the wrong set-up.  That means three employees were right-handed and three were left-handed.  A simple switch or trading workstations between the different employees increased in each customer service representatives productivity somewhere between 20% to 50%.
  
  ROI - 12 - 30 minutes per hour or $37,440.00 - $94,500.00 per year in productivity savings for the company for the 6 employees.
  (Calculated at $15.00/hr)
  
  
  -------- A legal executive worked at his desk with a stapler, printer, scanner, etc... somewhere between 3 and 5 feet from his desk.  A simple relocation of frequently used items improved his productivity enough each day to save over $8,000 in otherwise wasted time. 
  
  ROI - 104 hours per year or $$8,320
  (Calculated at $80.00/hr)
   

  
   
• DOCUMENT & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT -
  "My Documents" had no subfolders and many documents were misnamed and there were more than 857 electronic documents in the single folder.  This corporate executive was wasting approximately 15 to 30 minutes per day to find documents.
  We customized her system to suit her needs and thinking.
  ROI - 15 - 30 minutes per day or $6,162 - $12,324 per year
  (Calculated at $200K/yr.)
  
  
   
• SETTING PRIORITIES & GETTING IT ALL DONE -
  A common statement I hear is..."I don't have time or a need to make a TO DO LIST. I know what I have to do."
   A corporate executive had an immigration issue with an employee. The task at hand had been escalated to a legal issue. No action on his part would mean 30-days in jail. He assumed the task would take 2 days, lots of phone calls, digging through loads of documents and filing out lots of paperwork. So he procrastinated.
   We have a habit as human beings, to do  first  the things that are quick, fast and easy.   We put off the longer or harder tasks until "later." 
   Once  the executive realized the importance of writing a TO DO LIST, he finally sat down and put ALL his tasks on the TO DO LIST. He took immediate action on the immigration issue because  the TO DO LIST put it at top priority before any other item. 
   Funny thing is, the task only took him 2 hours. He wasted weeks and days worrying over and procrastinating about a task he thought would take too long.
   Figure the ROI on implementing his TO DO LIST: compare the possible lost time in jail - vs - actual time to complete the task.
  ROI  = $19,754 (21 work days minus 2 hours) 
  (Calculated at $250,000.00 annual salary)
   
• EMAIL MANAGEMENT -