A management-consulting firm focused on producing tangible and significant results to global 1000 organizations, through strategic cost reduction and sales enhancement initiatives.
Optimizing revenues and expenses to ensure profitable outcomes.
Company Background & Cost Reduction Services
MRO
SSA employs two main strategies to impact Maintenance, Repair and Operating (MRO) expenditures. We tailor these strategies based on a client's specific situation relative to MRO purchasing, usage and inventory carrying costs.
MRO Case Study
Marketing & Advertising
To produce results in marketing and advertising related spending, SSA has developed and integrated two key strategies that achieves maximum savings results while ensuring promotional effectiveness:
Marketing & Advertising Case Study
G & A
SSA has conducted a wide variety of expense control efforts to impact General & Administrative (G&A) expenditures. These include areas such as office supplies, temporary services, banking fees, computer equipment, travel, security services, etc.
There are a number of activities and strategies that SSA commonly conducts to reduce G&A expenditures. They include the following:
Implementation of Improved Purchasing Processes & Consumption Controls
- Process mapping/comparison of processes across operations
- Improvements in contractual terms
- Process re-engineering
- Implementation of policies or procedures to control various aspects of consumption/ordering associated with particular categories
- Changes to the existing supply chain to improve position and relative purchasing powerSupplier Consolidation & Expenditure Leveraging
- Research and identify additional world-class and industry-leading suppliers
- Consolidate and leverage suppliers through RFPs/bidding/competitive strategiesInternal & External Benchmarking of Pricing and Practices
- Internal benchmarking of multiple suppliers providing similar products or services
- External benchmarking of prices and sourcing practices among companies of similar size and industriesStandardization of Products Specifications
- Identify savings opportunities from product alternatives/changes to existing product specificationsExecution or Implementation of Electronic Sourcing Strategies
- Streamline purchases and activities through reverse auctions, electronic bidding tools, eCommerce marketplaces/exchanges, online/electronic catalogues, electronic travel and expense reporting and tracking
G & A Case Study
Sales Growth and Effectiveness
SSA employs a highly effective, results-oriented approach to improve sales effectiveness and increase revenues. Often, this involves ingraining highly effective fundamental selling and sales management skills through in-field training and coaching to prove the power of the strategies we develop.
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