Decrease Expenses and Optimize Costs

"Control your costs better than your competitors. That's where you can always find the competitive advantage" - Sam Walton

The application of the Zero-Based Budgeting methodology helps companies to answer 4 fundamental questions:

• Are there wastes of resources that can be eliminated without compromising revenue growth in order to ensure its survival?
• Is the current structure adequate to support the growth strategy efficiently in the face of current challenges?
• Are there productivity gaps, even considering the growth of the company?
• Where should we allocate resources to maximise return?

The answer to each of the points will be built by implementing a proactive culture of constant questioning aimed at optimising expenditure, eliminating waste from processes and raising the overall efficiency of the company.

We help the company understand the cost and return of each of its deliverables across all areas and ensure only what adds value to the organisation is delivered.

The implementation journey involves a review of the budget process, questioning of paradigms and mapping of gaps based on best internal and market practices. The OBZ seeks to build a culture of continuous improvement with the use of performance indicators for all accounts and areas of the company.

"Cost is like a nail, you always have to cut it" - Carlos Alberto Sicupira

Matrix Expense Management (GMD) is a management methodology used for the analysis and optimization of operational expenses, also called SG&A.

In a traditional budget management model, it is up to the area manager to manage the expenditure under his/her responsibility.In a traditional budget management model, the manager of the area is responsible for managing the expenses under his responsibility. The GMD proposes budget management as follows:

Cross control of expenses, where two managers manage the same account from different perspectives: the package manager, who manages an account across the organisation (throughout its structure), and the area manager himself, thus promoting a gain of scale;

The expenses are parameterized by their "generator fact" of expenditure, establishing the performance indicators in order to identify opportunities for improvement and best practices, assisting in the process of negotiating the company's goals;

For each negotiated target, action plans are drawn up. In addition, governance rituals are structured to control and capture results.

The ultimate goal of GMD is to help the company improve its operating results, promoting competitiveness and sustainable growth.

ROP is a solution aimed at improving results through the implementation of cross-functional process management. The company's operations and results are improved through four levers: Technology, Structure, People and Standards.

This happens through 3 steps:

1 - Value Chain Assessment

Survey of the company's macro-processes and prioritisation of those that generate most value for stakeholders

2 - Mapping the Current Situation

Prioritised macroprocesses are analysed further to identify opportunities for improvement

3 - Definition of the Future Situation

The most relevant improvement opportunities are listed, creating a future model of the organisation's processes and structure

4 - Planning and Implementation

Action plans are drawn up totion plans are drawn up to support the transition from the current to the future situation, through the monitoring of strategic process indicators and compliance with standards

The main objective of day-to-day routine management is to improve results and stabilise processes.

In addition, performance indicators are defined, improvement and maintenance targets are set, and the control system is reviewed.

This happens through 4 steps:

1 - Setting targets;

Analysis of the performance of the established indicators and proposed targets for improvement and maintenance.

2 - Standards Review;

Definition of the best practices used in the execution of tasks in order to optimise their operation and make processes predictable.

3 - Elaboration of Actions and Follow-up;

For each identified opportunity, Action Plans are drawn up to achieve the goals. Furthermore, monitoring rituals are structured to guarantee results.

All this so that your processes are the best in the sector, ensuring competitiveness and market growth for your company.

"Remote work is the future of work" - Alexis Ohanian, Reddit

Hybrid Work Management is a solution that helps companies that wish to structure hybrid and remote work without losing productivity, defining policies and enabling its management. The tool is modular and versatile, and can meet various needs:

1) Cost reduction: it is possible to optimize the costs related to face-to-face work, such as the physical space required, infrastructure assets, and charges for employees working face-to-face.

2) Organizational climate: understanding how employees see remote work, considering its advantages and disadvantages, allows its implementation to be coherent and improve the quality of work life.

3) Level of remote work implementation: understand if the company is making the most of remote work, extracting all the advantages in quality and quantity from the model.

4) Team efficiency and productivity: define clear efficiency and productivity indicators to ensure that the hybrid work maintains the same performance as the face-to-face work.

Are you 100% satisfied with your company's current work model?

Did your team achieve the planned and expected productivity in the remote working model?

If you understand that your company has opportunities for improvement in the work model, Hybrid Work Management is the ideal solution to identify and help capture these opportunities.