Friday, November 17, 2023

Total Cost Management - CII Maturity Model

Cost management as an accounting activity is focus of the accounting system on providing cost information on objectives relevant for cost management.

Cost management as a managerial activity of managers of various departments is understanding cost drivers and their impact on the cost. Hence cost drivers are to be planned or usage of cost drivers (activities that use resources) has to be planned to give the desired result with minimum cost possible. The first focus is on getting the desired result and the next focus is one cost.

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CII TCM Maturity Model  - Pdf File
http://icmai.in/upload/Institute/NCC_2013_Presentations/TCM-Maturity-Model.pdf


http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-mentor/modelling-cost-management-maturity/article1087018.ece



Level 1 - Minimal Level
• Features
– Financial Report Driven
– Collection of costs at “Cost Centers”
– Cost awareness only at senior management level
– Inadequate for the Managerial Reporting and Control
– Assignment of only manufacturing / operating expenses to products/ services


Level 2 - Functional Level
• Features
– System driven Data Support
– Material cost is in place for the evaluation and compilation of the product wise / customer wise 
with built in wastages
– Information Technology is interfaced. – Cost measurement not driving cost improvement initiatives
– Cost information more supportive of operational decision making & less for strategic

Level 3 - Operational Level
• Features
– Synchronization of financial accounting and cost accounting
– Both Material costing and process costing based on acceptable cost accounting standards
– Effective utilization of cost data for improvements (such as Kaizen)
– Operational support for budgeting process

Level 4 - TCM Enabled
• Features
– System support to strategic decision making – Integrated cost system in place
– Customer focused cost measurement & management 
– Operational excellence reinforced continuously through cost management
– Cost management link with business strategy explicitly articulated
– ERP System providing total solution for cost management requirement

Level 5 - Exemplary
• Features
– Systems and procedures followed become a trend to other companies
– Companies in this category are ICONIC
– Drive cost structural's in a particular industry
– The internal system is designed to minimize and absorb both national and global uncertainties
– Achieve an edge in having a cost advantage in external value chain

Internal Benefits
• Strategic Benefits
– Multi product/service profile
• P/L of Product / Service emerges from a sound cost management system in an organization
– Customer Profitability
• Customer Profitability review highlights the pattern & flow of cost, enabling informed decision making about the viability
– Competition
• Rating facilitate the organization to
– Review its cost structures continuously
– Draw a road map to enable metamorphosis to next level
– Capital Projects
• Scientific basis for the evaluation of project viability
– New Product Development
• Simulations of existing process data at multiple stages to establish product viability


Companies Associated with CII TCM

 ITC (2 units)
 Godrej & Boyce (8 
Divisions)
 Escorts, Faridabad
 Amararaja batteries, 
Tirupathi
 Hyderabad Industries
 Subros, Noida
 JCB, Ballabgarh
 Kirloskar Brothers, Dewas
 Hi tech arai, Madurai
 Menon & Menon, Kolhapur
 Cavin Kare, Chennai
• Kirloskar Vadi
• Wipro engineering – B’lore
• JSW Steel– Bellary
• Shree cement – Jaipur
• ITW Signode - Hyderabad
• Tata Motors - Mumbai
• Grundfos pumps - Chennai
• Rajashree cement – Malkhed
• Wheels India - Chennai


Total Cost Management Framework AACE International

Interesting discussion of strategic asset management and project management of asset projects.


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Ud. 17.11.2023, 1.7.2023
Pub. 12.11.2016









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