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Optimising an Organisation's Internal and External Costs
Reducing costs begins with understanding what drives them. Analyse activities and resources to distinguish meaningful levers from savings that weaken service. Develop a method to justify priorities and support spending-control decisions.
- Duration
- 3 days 21 hours
- Code
- ACHA001FR Code
Presentation
In an increasingly competitive global economic environment, organisations face growing challenges to remain competitive. To overcome these obstacles, they must introduce an ambitious cost-reduction policy to generate stronger margins. However, it is crucial to recognise that competitiveness comes not only from eliminating waste but also from optimising costs.
This course addresses that need by analysing all of an organisation's internal and external costs. Its primary aim is to achieve sustainable reductions across procurement, inventory management, contracts, overheads and related areas, excluding staff costs.
Through this 3-day programme, you will gain in-depth expertise to assess these areas and act effectively. You will learn to adjust costs to an optimal level while ensuring long-term viability, and leave with an audit method and an action plan directly applicable to your organisation.
Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Analyse all internal and external organisational costs, including procurement, inventory management, contracts and overheads, excluding staff costs.
- Audit the various internal costs.
- Detect excess costs and identify their causes.
- Manage costs rather than simply absorb them, taking the market, organisational context and operations into account.
- Involve operational staff and the entire organisation in tackling excess costs.
- Build an optimisation action plan that can be applied sustainably.
Program
Module 1: explaining the challenges of cost optimisation for the organisation
- The history of cost cutting and cost optimisation.
- Analysing existing costs.
Practical work
- Mapping the main expenditure categories of a typical organisation.
Module 2: setting up an internal audit
- Communicating information about the audit.
- Launching the internal audit.
Practical work
- Building an audit checklist suited to a particular department or function.
Module 3: targeting costs for optimisation
- Analysing audit results.
- Identifying and eliminating waste.
Practical work
- Identifying priority excess costs from a practical case.
Module 4: identifying useful actions to optimise costs
- Writing specifications in line with best practice.
- Conducting functional analysis.
- Applying value analysis.
- Selecting suppliers.
- Reducing inventory.
Practical work
- Conducting value analysis on a product or service.
Module 5: defining optimisation strategies
- Optimising external costs.
- Optimising internal costs.
- Improving procurement management.
- Using outsourcing.
- Transforming the buyer's role into that of a cost optimiser.
Practical work
- Building an optimisation action plan using a continuing case study.
Module 6: evaluating potential short-, medium- and long-term gains
- External gains.
- Internal gains.
Practical work
- Quantifying the expected gains from an optimisation action plan.
Audience
This course is intended for professionals involved in managing their organisation's costs, including:
- Procurement managers wishing to structure an approach to internal and external cost optimisation.
- Department managers involved in controlling their area's budget.
- Management controllers wishing to strengthen their cost audit and analysis tools.
Prerequisites
The following prerequisites apply:
- Basic knowledge: understanding organisational cost structures.
- Professional experience: working in procurement, budget management or the operational management of a department.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
- Quiz / multiple-choice questions
Course highlights
- Balanced learning approach: structured theoretical input complemented by practical work in every module.
- Learning assessment: a multiple-choice assessment to validate your understanding of key concepts.
- Experience sharing: participants share field experience to enrich collective reflection.
- Personalised action plan: you leave with an audit method and an action plan directly applicable to your organisation.
Dates and sessions
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