Operations
The unit price came down 6%. The minimum order tripled.
Purchasing wins get measured on the line item. The cost that offsets them usually lands somewhere the line item cannot see.
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Operations
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Operations
Revenue grew 38%. The overdraft grew faster.
Growth consumes cash before it produces any. There is an arithmetic that says how much, and how fast a business…
Operations
The contract started in January. The value landed in June.
Between the signature and the first real result sits a gap nobody owns, and it quietly sets the terms of…
Operations
The dashboard has forty metrics. Two of them arrive in time to matter.
Most management reports are accurate, thorough and useless for deciding anything, and the reason is not what they measure but…
Operations
The terms are 30 days. The money arrives on day 68.
Most firms negotiate payment terms and chase overdue invoices. The largest recoverable delay usually sits somewhere neither of those touches.
Operations
The new hire is productive in month seven. You budgeted month three.
Most hiring plans price the salary and ignore the ramp, and the gap between the two is where growth plans…
Operations
Capacity went up 30%. Throughput went up 4%.
Money spent on the wrong machine buys nothing but a longer queue somewhere else, and the accounts almost never reveal…
Operations
You dual-sourced. Both suppliers buy from the same plant.
Two approved suppliers only halve your risk if they fail independently, and in most categories, nobody has ever checked whether…
Operations
The work is bespoke. Most of the hours are not.
Service firms defend customisation they have never measured, and the delivery record usually shows the variation sits in a much…
Operations
The job takes three hours. The van drives ninety minutes.
In any business that sends people to customers, the thing you sell and the thing you actually run out of…
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This is the general pattern. Your business is the specific case.
Everything here is free to read with an account, and always will be. What it cannot do is tell you which of these applies to your numbers, your market and your constraints. That is the work we do with clients.