manufacturing cost policy deployment

To be honest, many of those who make improvements just review what has already been designed.
Often real-time business managers say:

we need an improvement in price competitiveness on the basis of a continuous and flexible reduction of unit costs;

we would like to reform the current profit structure so we can inte […]

The basic goal of MCPD thinking is to ensure a sustainable competitive supremacy through cost-competitiveness improvement to achieve real structural profit reform based on productivity reform.
At the beginning of the MCPD projects, managers and practitioners are concerned about:

concomitant reconciliation between the […]

Structures for Achieving and Sustaining Targets and Means of Cost Improvement Deployment

In the previous episodes we have presented how to approach the initial conditions of the company’s external environment from the perspective of the MCPD system (respectively the Productivity Business Model (PBM) as the […]

Cost Improvement Targets Deployment: Preliminary Steps

The fundamental tasks of any manager are to continually understand the real situation of the company’s external and internal business environment, to identify the main issues alone, and to come up with solutions and to mobilize his/ her own staff, colleagues, su […]

Sales Decrease Scenario: Internal Target Profit by Minimizing Inputs

Over the life of each company, shorter or longer periods of decline in sales may occur. The causes of these decreases may be diverse from internal causes of the company (lower quality level, increased cost level, slowing innovation, unsynchronized proces […]

Sales Increase Scenario: External Target Profit by Maximizing Outputs

As it is easy to see lately, the business environment is increasingly challenging both inside and outside companies. However, the board of companies and top management teams must manage how to create business profit consistently.
As we already know, sus […]

The Basic Concept of the MCPD: Definition, Phases, Steps, Basic Principles and Effects

As I have presented in previous episodes, Productivity Business Model (PBM) is the framework in which the MCPD system develops. Therefore, continuous identification of the steady growth directions of manufacturing profit, based on produ […]

From Multiannual and Annual Productivity and Costs Policy Deployment to Productivity Master Plan

As presented in the previous episode, Aligning Profitability and Productivity Scenarios and Strategies to Productivity Core Business Goals (PCBG), after setting the two profitability and productivity scenarios (in case of incr […]

Aligning Profitability and Productivity Scenarios and Strategies to Productivity Core Business Goals (PCBG)

As presented in the previous episode, the main concern of the board of directors is to show the clear direction towards which the company must go in the future, namely to establish the company’s productivity v […]