Business Effectiveness 

Business Effectiveness teams focus on fundamental business issues— managing risk, increasing revenues, and controlling costs—which all organizations in all industries should address in order to flourish. We can help companies identify risks and enhance operations to support their strategic business objectives and financial goals.

David J. Evans

David J. Evans

National Practice Leader, Management Consulting

519-672-4880

Our Featured Publications

Should You Develop a Sustainable Supply Chain? 

Canadian companies can develop new business, reduce costs, and protect customer relationships and reputation by thinking more broadly about environmental and social issues in both their organization and their supply chain.

 

 

Managing Product Recalls

A product recall can have terrible consequences on a company, even more if it is not prepared for such an event. Reverse logistics, when not previously organized, usually costs 10 times more than regular logistics.

Organizations have a range of options to help them manage and improve performance, including process and control design, shared services models, and outsourcing. Our Business Effectiveness professionals seek to empower clients to make better business decisions—decisions that are at the heart of successful business transformation and change management efforts.

 

Business Effectiveness teams serve our leading clients in all industries. Our professionals bring extensive experience and work collaboratively with clients, advising them on:

 

  • Managing and reducing materials costs
  • Optimizing overall internal supply chain costs
  • Reducing supply chain risk
  • Improving service to the customer
  • Globalization.

 

In addition, the Business Effectiveness team can transform the business by helping clients think through:

 

  • Operations risk management:
  • Supplier risk
  • Product portfolio risk
  • Process risk.
  •  Strategic cash generation:
  • Working capital optimization
  • Revenue management.
  • Operational optimization:
  • Integrated supply chain
  • Rapid value procurement
  • Cost management and optimization
  • Global logistics.

Business Effectiveness teams can assist our clients with:

 

  • Supply chain development advising on making your supply chain an agile operation, implementing lean operations, sales inventory and operating planning, distribution and logistics, operations scorecard, and carbon footprint reduction
  • Rapid value procurement focusing on enhancing strategic sourcing, consolidation of the supply base, improved contract management, improved inventory management through purchase execution, and procurement process effectiveness
  • Working capital management designing and embedding approaches to develop and implement visibility, control, and generation of cash and working capital through operations and inventory enhancement
  • Business integration — advising on mergers of business organizations (called post-merger integration), shortly after a deal is finalized or years after many mergers have been executed
  • Customer management advising on improving customer management supporting processes, helping with visibility into customer profitability and price to perform services, and assisting in revenue generation by leveraging supply chain opportunities.