Cost Optimisation

Companies today are under constant pressure to improve profitability and eliminate cost out of their business. This has prompted them to seek greater transparency into their financial performance and discover actionable insights that can enhance their decision making and create value.

The key to unlocking value is cost and profitability transparency that helps finance professionals analyse profitability along such dimensions as product, service, and customer. While many companies can effectively analyse revenue by these key dimensions, costing data is another matter.

It is often a struggle for companies to understand their true costs due to the complex issues rooted in the systems, processes, and capabilities across the enterprise. Therefore, it’s not surprising that, although information to support strategic decision making is a top priority, most organisations identify it as one of their top areas for improvement.

Our service offerings help clients adopt a strategic approach to gaining visibility and transparency into IT cost management. Our offerings include:

Visibility and Management of IT Costs:

• Analysis into what’s driving profit performance and what areas in the business need attention
• Determining the levers used to reduce overhead and shared services costs
• Visibility into the total cost to serve by customer, channel, or region
• Understanding of what costs are being put into product or service offerings and not being recovering on price