Cost & Cash Competitiveness
Cash & cost management is at the heart of financial success
In this ever-challenging environment, with strong markets expectations and the necessity to finance innovations for the future, we support our clients to secure their financial performance with:
- Variable cost reduction: product costs including purchasing and labor, as the main contributors to the cost of goods sold (COGS)
- Fixed cost reduction: resources and assets (tools, surfaces, etc.)
- Working capital optimization: lead time reduction, inventory reduction, financing and debt management (ROCE improvements)
At CYLAD, we also believe that to ensure a sustainable impact and a long-lasting performance, business controlling practices need to be strengthened and leveraged with digital technologies/Analytics/AI and we help you to achieve it.
What we offer
Our strong ability to understand business drivers, deep expertise in specific industries and broad set of skills including an in-house data team, uniquely position us to:
- Make the connection between financial concepts such as CAPEX, OPEX, EBIT, and NPV and technical content on R&D, production or commercial activities,
- Build and drive competitiveness platform to deliver financial impact,
- Model, challenge and deliver business cases.
Here below are some examples of key topics and levers we address to help our clients:
SECURE BUSINESS CONTINUITY
- Provide visibility on financial performance per business & product lines
- Secure P&L vs. inflation (e.g. back-to-back contracts / negotiation)
- Support Top Management team in restructuration or turnaround situation
INCREASE REVENUE
- Decide new product / service launch, based on EBIT and Cash modelling
- Develop end-to-end P&L by product line / program
REDUCE NON-RECURRING/ FIXED COSTS
- Fund design to costs approach
- Reduce white collars / blue collars ratio
- Lower breakeven point when delivery volume decreases
OPTIMIZE VARIABLE COSTS
- Optimize investments (in line with business requirements)
- Improve Buy perimeter competitiveness: Negociation dossier, Design to Cost, savings analytics radar and further levers in Operations & Supply chain
- Perform supplier audits & improvement plans
RATIONALIZE WORK IN PROGRESS
- Reduce Inventory: WIP and stocks
- Reduce industrial lead-time
LEVERAGE FIXED ASSETS
- Develop Center of Excellence (e.g. tooling)
- Optimize investment costs
We support our clients with proven approaches all along the product life cycle, from product development to serial production and services:
Client testimony
"CYLAD did a great job, very good return on investment; we have €10 million savings while in February we had nothing."
Head of Quality of an Aerospace Manufacturer
