Cutting costs: maximizing results
- Jayadev, ERP Consultant

- Nov 1, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 7, 2021
Running a business is not easy any more as the competition increases day by day. Finding new markets and opportunities, collecting the money from customer, retaining customers, ensuring customer satisfaction, managing the inventories, managing the finance etc. are the other challenges faced by most of the organisation. Availability of the right skills and managing the resources is undoubtedly a challenge for Small and medium size companies. Transforming the organisation to become fit in this competition should be the top priority.
Cost reduction is possible only by planning. Planning the sales, planning the inventory, planning the finance, planning the man power- everywhere planning takes a major role in cost cutting. How does this planning possible ? The modern business management tools help this to achieve because planning is an inherent feature. Workflows and alert systems facilitate controls. The best practices in running the business is incorporated in these tools. With little training and practices, in a few days or weeks, you can achieve planning.
It's also important to understand how each function performs. Data analysis plays a major role in decision making. Based on the insights from the operations, the changes needs to be done from time to time. Wastage of time is nothing but directly impacts the cost of operation. Monitoring and controlling the resource is another way to achieve cost reduction. Modern tools are built to monitor the process efficiency.




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