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Downsizing avoided with help of customers
Rather than layoff employees when faced with a decline in demand, Rhino Foods Inc., a US dessert manufacturer, asked its customers to help and five partnering companies offered to hire its employees during slow-demand months. Hourly production and shipping and receiving employees were asked..
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| EFQM Excellence Model helps firm create a culture of continuous improvement
To help secure its future a UK Charity carried out an organisational assessment using the European Excellence framework (EFQM). The process provided valuable insights and comparisons with best practice in many areas from leadership to performance measurement. Critical drivers for change were identified, the process model from which all services were delivered was defined,..
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Cost reduction programme involves HR Outsourcing
To cut overheads an anonymous US retailer identified HR functions it believed could be better handled by a service provider. The company then outsourced its 401(k) plan (a type of retirement..
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| Cost reduction programme tackles supply issues
To reduce costs a US manufacturer examined its materials requisition processes and decided to implement a supplier-managed, in-plant store programme..
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Cost reduction programme succeeds with a broad and deep approach
To reduce costs an US manufacturer looked at the whole organisation and conducted a reorganisation of responsibilities, consolidated operations to reduce rent..
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| Cost reduction programme focuses on insurance costs
To reduce costs a US Wholesaler/Retailer moved to self-insure its properly and casualty (P&C) risks from a deductible programme with third-party administration of claims. The company developed an effective self-insured..
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Cost reduction programme addresses inventory carrying costs
To reduce costs a US Medical Instruments Company looked to streamline its inventory-management operation usinga modified activity-based costing (ABC) approach. 6% of SKUs were classified as A items, 10% as B items and 84% as as..
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| Cost reduction programme tackles training costs
To reduce the costs of training hourly employees a Texas Government office decided to move to self-paced intranet based learning modules. Whilst there was some dissatisfaction..
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Cost reduction programme gets at costs of office suppliesThis snippet and its associated article report on a cost cutting initiative.
To effect savings a US Technology company decided to go to desktop ordering of office supplies. Clerks and administrative staff were issued with..
Read more... | Vehicle Fleet Management goes green
To meet SKF's global vehicle emissions target SKF Group Australia, a manufacturer of ball and roller bearings, spindles and seals, established a policy, called 'Beyond Zero' in 2005, and set out to address its biggest carbon problems - a car fleet of large six and eight-cylinder, petrol-driven vehicles. As staff motor vehicles were an attractive employee enticement in Australia, the company took into account..
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Vehicle Fleet Management rental scheme
The 48 nurses and hospice workers at the Health at Home Agency of Alegent Health, a US hospital system, drove their own vehicles for which they received mileage reimbursement. When gas prices began to soar in 2007 and the IRS increased the mileage reimbursement rate to 50 cents a mile, up from..
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| Travel and expenses cost cutting
To contain its travel and entertainment spending A US company designed a travel requisition form that included a travel budget and a asked for the total number of corporate employees travelling. The form..
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