Supply financial services and manufacturing, petroleum, mining and pharmaceuticals with the highest Return on Investment (ROI) and profitability

We provide a strategic consulting solutions in operations, finance, strategic sourcing in engagements.  We have enhanced the performance of operating units and improved productivity and efficiencies. 

Process Offers

• Total Expense Management Solution (TEMS)
• Performance Improvement, Turnaround and Restructuring
• Financial Advisory
• IT Turnarounds
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  Experienced team of professional consultants leads every engagement.  Our low-leverage outsourcing model means that you get responsive service, insights, and results in which you can have a high degree of confidence, at highly competitive rates

• Work with management teams to develop highly focused strategies, targets, and plans of action

• Guiding principle is that all improvements need to explicitly flow through the P&L, become budget sweeps or are quantifiable (e.g.: system implementation, business plan, etc.)

• Financial targets are normally agreed upon by all affected business units and broken out to individual managers within each business. 
  All managers need to own their targets and help make certain that managers understand their targets

• Ensure that proper MIS is being generated consistently and timely (create or redesign if necessary)

• Establish periodic business unit performance KPI / KRI review meetings with senior management

Total Expense Management Solution (TEMS)

TEMS is a “turn-key” process that identifies, creates, and sustains measurable savings from expenditures, operational efficiencies, leverages strategic sourcing best practices, and enhances a firm’s culture on how it thinks about expenses

• Savings Identification – translate and analyze your financial data from multiple disparate systems to identify savings and control spending
• Process reengineering and Expense Efficiencies - business process efficiencies along with desired cultural enhancements are driven by the review of demand for sourced items, how and why they are utilized/consumed.
• Strategic Sourcing - savings are extracted from all expense categories by leveraging our deep sourcing and supplier industry expertise, inclusive of unique, complex or strategically sensitive areas.  An improved sourcing strategy execution adds real value to the supply chain.
• Strategic Alliances –

• Strategy is developed with Firm’s management to execute a successful plan

• C Level Executive Consulting oversees project management and deploys alliance companies to support initiatives as required

• You get a “turn-key” Total Expense Management Solution

Expeditious Implementation

• We perform initial expense analysis, generating customized reports in only 2-8 weeks from receipt of suitable data.

• Market and supplier analyses for key expense categories are performed.

• Set baselines, goals and plan of attack with your business units, financial and procurement groups.

• Current sourcing practices are evaluated and selected contracts benchmarked against our experience with "best-in-class" pricing and service levels.

• Fund longer-term sourcing initiatives by taking immediate advantage of savings by piloting target categories during the review period

• Program builds incentives and ensures all stakeholders are represented and engaged.

Sustaining Savings

• Ensure cost savings are sustained each year by tracking and analyzing expenditures, and monitoring contract compliance.

• Strengthen your financial and procurement organizations’ capabilities with cutting-edge sourcing and organizational collaboration skills training.

Benefits

TEMS is the solution when you are looking for more than just price reductions:

• Complete understanding of expenditures and control over demand

• Well-defined specifications and cost/benefit options for optimal purchasing

• Improved policies and procedures

• Improved service and quality levels

• Best-in-class contract terms and conditions

• Total cost of ownership savings opportunities

• Project/event design and management

• Post-event bid analysis and recommendations

• All client and supplier communications

• Performance metric reporting

Performance Improvement, Turnaround, and Restructuring

Expertise in dealing with under-performing divisions, troubled business processes, or ineffective organizational structures.  We identify opportunities and act with you to take advantage of them

• Offer practical thinking and hands-on action in times of dramatic corporate change and times of crisis with effectiveness in:

• Financial forecasting and cash flow planning

• Accounts receivable and payables issues

• Inventory and turnover

• Renegotiate loan covenants

• Product reviews – profit margins, industry benchmarks

• Working with management we execute quick improvements and restructuring solutions that sets the stage for long-term corporate health and success

• Transition can create challenges, but also generates real opportunities for improving corporate performance. Our planning process ensures the greatest possibility to harness value from transitions.

• Proven methodology clearly identifies performance obstacles and provides a wide variety of alternatives to manage challenges and enhance performance.

• Providing the strategy, we work together with your managers and staff, and drive a results oriented implementation of whole-business turnaround solutions.

• Lend credibility to management's restructuring strategy by executing quick improvements - identifying and mitigating risk, helps retain credibility.

Financial Advisory

Develop tailored programs that help management make informed decisions and comprehend facts and figures that lead to sound choices.

• Corporate Health Checkups

• Project and new initiative capital spending and ROI evaluations

• Our professionals have combined industry knowledge, credentials and hands-on experience to help understand the financial, transactional, regulatory, and legal issues

IT Turnarounds

CLEC offers a unique set of information technology services, focused on retrieving and using operating data to support turnarounds or performance improvements

• Our strategy ensures that your information technology investment is aligned with business objectives

• We perform due diligence and analysis, looking for ways to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and increase the value that your IT investment brings to your daily operations and ultimately, to your bottom line.  This defines optimal IT capacity

• Expertise in structuring, negotiating and managing outsourcing relationships to ensure an equitable balance, as well as for helping companies restructure the IT function, drive mission-critical projects, and develop e-business strategies