In today’s highly volatile global business and economic environment, enterprises worldwide are facing increased challenges, both internally externally, to sustain profitable growth.

Under rapidly changing market conditions, the ability to reduce operating costs and allocate budgets correctly is paramount for organizations to survive and grow.

MBS' strategic cost management services enable leadership teams to reduce expenses in categories that yield little impact, and optimize spend in areas that drive sustainable growth. Our strategic cost management programs can help to identify and eliminate up to 70% of none-obvious expenses for your business within a year, freeing up cash that can be invested to drive growth and enhance shareholder ROI.

MBS is uniquely positioned to advise clients, bringing its category and transformation expertise to help clients achieve their specific organizational, financial management and process efficiency objectives.

Traditional approaches to cost reduction are predominantly reactive and focused on “top slicing” across the organization. While these initiatives deliver tactical, within quarter results, they are not sustainable for three key reasons:

1. Focus on “big-ticket items” without understanding of cost, activity and output
2. Fragmented and inconsistent implementation
3. Lack of visibility into results to measure effectiveness

Our sustainable cost reduction approach puts in place five key levers that combine value chain insight and Zero-Based-Budgeting across direct, indirect, people and property. MBS strategic cost management system can help you:

• Understand what your cost and drivers are (spend and demand)
• Know how activity relates to cost and output (good and bad cost)
• Embed accountability with visibility (aligned sponsors, targets and structure)
• Extract unnecessary cost with the right lever (value chain-defined cost reduction levers)
• Enable control and intervention (category ownership and value delivery)