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Books - Cost Reduction - Cost Management

When Lean Enterprises Collide: Competing Through Confrontation

Robin Cooper

Harvard Business Press, 1995 - Business & Economics - 379 pages

When Lean Enterprises Collide reveals a new theory of competition in which lean manufacturers  create the most innovative product at the lowest price. These firms engage in a game of constant and lightning-fast leapfrogging in pursuit of transitory gains. This is the confrontation strategy, and it will shape the competitive landscape for lean enterprises.

Cooper shows that the key to success in such an environment is the careful balance of cost, quality, and functionality - the survival triplet - in which cost is the critical element. He describes eight innovative cost management techniques - including target costing and value engineering - that have emerged in Japanese firms to manage costs across the value chain. Leading manufacturers must use aggressive cost management along with TQM and time-to-market to develop products with the appropriate mix of quality, cost, and functionality to satisfy the customer.

Evidence of this relentless confrontation strategy and the hidden role of cost management within it emerged during Cooper's five-year study of the management systems inside twenty Japanese companies, including Olympus, Nissan, Citizen, and Komatsu.

https://books.google.co.in/books/about/When_Lean_Enterprises_Collide.html?id=sIckcFP-QbQC

Concept Papers

CFD for Productivity in Design
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/08/cfd-software-being-promoted-as-cost.html

Robust Design Optimization for Productivity in Design Departments
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/08/robust-design-productivity-during.html

Riding the Storm in 2012 - How to make cost reduction possible? Deloitte White paper
http://deloitteblog.co.za.www102.cpt1.host-h.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/How-to-make-enterprise-cost-management-sustainable.pdf
Easy efficiency opportunities have dried up. But still cost reduction is required. This means more strategic, agrresive cost and performance initiatives have to be taken up by companies.

Sustained Cost Reduction - Bain & Co.
http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/sustained-cost-transformation.aspx




Sustained Cost Transformation - Bain
http://www.bain.com/consulting-services/performance-improvement/sustained-cost-transformations.aspx

Supply Chain Cost Reduction

Supply Chain Cost Reduction UPS
http://harshbudholiya.blogspot.in/p/cost-reduction.html

https://www.e-logistics.ups.com/solutions/white_papers/wp_real_value.pdf

Supply Chain Development for the Lean Enterprise: Interorganizational Cost Management

1st Edition

By Robin Cooper, Regine Slagmulder

Copyright Year 1999

ISBN 9781563272189

Published June 18, 1999 by Productivity Press

544 Pages

https://www.routledge.com/Supply-Chain-Development-for-the-Lean-Enterprise-Interorganizational-Cost/Cooper-Slagmulder/p/book/9781563272189

Top Consultants in Cost Reduction

Strategic Cost Reduction: Services Overview - Accenture
http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/service-strategic-cost-reduction-services.aspx

Sustained Cost Transformation - Bain
http://www.bain.com/consulting-services/performance-improvement/sustained-cost-transformations.aspx

Sustainable Cost Reduction - Deloitte
http://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/operations/solutions/about-our-strategic-cost-reduction-services.html


Cost Management and Cost Reduction - KPMG
https://www.kpmg.com/ro/en/services/advisory/performance-technology/business-performance-services/cost-management-cost-reduction/pages/default.aspx

Design to Value - McKinsey
http://www.mckinsey.com/client_service/operations/expertise/product_development/design-to-value

Sustainable Cost Reduction - PWC
http://www.pwc.com/us/en/industry/entertainment-media/sustainable-cost-reduction.jhtml

Scope and Challenge Papers

2012

Achieving Sustainable Cost Reduction in Investment Banks - Accenture
http://www.accenture.com/us-en/blogs/accenture-core-trading-blog/archive/2012/07/02/achieving-sustainable-cost-reduction.aspx

For Photovotaics cost reduction is a priority
http://www.pv-tech.org/guest_blog/high_efficiency_grabs_the_headlines_but_cost_reduction_remains_the_priority

IT Cost Reduction - CIOs are using New Technologies
http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-it-cost-reductions-new-technologies.aspx

Case Studies and News

August 2012

Cost Reduction Opportunity in Imaging Systems in Companies

The process of optimizing the imaging and output infrastructure unnecessarily high costs and underutilized assets. IDC Research studied nine large enterprises in the United States, Europe, and Asia and found the majority of organizations studied reported major problems related to overall cost awareness of their imaging hardware, their ability to assess device utilization, and high costs of maintaining an often aged and out-of-date fleet of printers, copiers, and multifunction devices. Based on the experiences of these nine companies and other research, IDC published a white paper that looks at the unnecessary costs and inefficiencies that typically exist within these resources and the significant opportunities to achieve cost savings, boost employee productivity, and speed up core business processes from tighter integration between the document advances of hardcopy devices and business process workflows.
http://ievarunmitra.blogspot.in/2012/08/cutting-costs-and-maximizing-return-on.html

May 2011

Lean Processes Trim $1.3M in Costs From ORs at Michigan's Oakwood Annapolis Hospital
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/or-efficiencies/lean-processes-trim-13m-in-costs-from-ors-at-michigans-oakwood-annapolis-hospital.html

DuPont™ Surlyn® as a Seal Layer Enables Increased Productivity During Filling of Resealable Tubular Bags
http://www2.dupont.com/food-beverage/en-us/fb/press-release/surlyn-seal-productivity.html


Updated  12.1.2022,  6 March 2015, 21 Feb 2013