manufacturing cost policy deployment

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 […]

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 […]

The real long-term competitiveness of companies is ensured by market share and acceptable profit levels to ensure business continuity and steady development.

1. Current Conditions and Challenge: a Real Competitiveness through Productivity

The main current and, above all, future challenges of […]

”On the occasion of the Romanian Centenary of the Great Union these two books were released at Routledge – Productivity Press (New York, USA) (February and October 2018). These two books were written as a dedication to the Romanian Centenary, with a hope for a more productive and prosperous Romania for all the years to come. Certa […]

Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) Profitability Scenarios: Systematic and Systemic Improvement of Manufacturing Costs 
Author: Alin Posteucă
by Productivity Press – Routledge, London (UK), Oct. 2018

Alin Posteucă is Managing Partner at Exegens®.
This book shows […]