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Business profile
CRA is a team of management, financial and engineering experts,
focused on providing cost reduction consulting services to small,
medium, and large companies worldwide.
CRA offices support each other with technical
assistance at any project as a one team, as we offer a top class, Cost
Reduction service to our clients.
CRA International has completed extensive cost
reduction projects, worldwide, for numerous companies across
diverse industries.
Our client base consists of
companies that engage in the electronics, industrial, food, communications, and financial industries, as well as
multinational service corporations.
Our Theme,
No-one understands a client's
business quite like your client does, so we take the time to listen
to the client's business needs and goals. This allows us to develop
cost reduction plans that make sense for the client's business.
When it comes to listening, we
have the best ears in the business! Our proposal to implementation
ratio is among the highest in the industry, allowing us to safely
offer our NO SAVINGS - NO CHARGE approach to cost reduction
consultation.
Operation,
Our company investigates and
reduces costs, expenses and overheads for small, medium, and large
organizations.
Not only we do investigate, but we also implement new systems, negotiate
new pricing and contracts and identify any abnormal or excessive
spends in a variety of areas. The client organization will obtain
SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS in the sample categories below (not an
exhaustive list) that we investigate on their behalf.
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Office/Computer/Printing Supplies
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Packaging
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Travel Costs
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Bank Charges& Interest
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Telecommunications Costs
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Credit Card Commissions
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Freight/Courier/Transport Costs
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Food& Beverages
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Cleaning Costs
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Maintenance Costs
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Fuel - Gas, Oil, Electric
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Protective Clothing
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Insurance
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&many more!
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We are in business to reduce your costs:
It happens, as an organization
expands, overheads grow. While management systems are doubtless in
place to review costs, few organizations are in position to release
time or the personnel to produce costs analyses in depth.
Which is why cost reduction
analysts was formed. Our function is to direct more of your top underscore
line earnings to the bottom line.
Over the years our expertise
has benefited a broad base of organizations throughout the world,
including major private and public companies, partnership,
government agencies and international banks.
Regardless of the sector or
the businesses with in it, every market place has become
increasingly crowded, there for more demanding cost containment is
now essential to both profit margin and competitiveness.
This is your opportunity,
through CRA, to have specific cost centres analyzed and cost reduction
implemented with nothing to lose except overheads.
The Ethics of Independence
Our consultants bring a high
degree of financial and administrative expertise to what is
carefully planned process.
For every client, our prime
concern is to produce reviews and reports of the highest quality,
the results of which could be seen easily reflected in the caliber of
organization CRA typically represents.
Our independence also gives us
an objective perspective on your accounting
conventions. We always take the “clean sheet” approach
and, wherever improvements can be made, deliver fresh solutions.
Collectively, the CRA team is well qualified and
thoroughly experienced in all aspects of, financial organization,
and business management and information technology.
You can be assured we will respect the lines of
business-to-business relationships already in place.
In short, we think and behave like an integral part of
your organization.
No Savings – No Charge
Your consultancy arrangement with CRA could not be
simpler. Either you money saving or where savings cannot be
achieved you pay no fee.
Our average cost reduction percentage is around 16%
and we have realized a saving of as much 50%
Fees are based on agreed percentage of your cost
saving over 24 month period.
Fees can be paid in quarterly installment as the
saving benefits come on streams
Your report
Our input data will be normally be collated from your
management reports, our reports are set out in a clear, easy to
read format, whatever products or services under review.
CRA will produce a set of recommendations and
implementation schedule.
Recommendations will define your current process;
pinpoint weaknesses and High light clear opportunities for
improvement. At all times, our interest in this is as a direct
extension of your operation.
For example purchasing department:
Systems require streamlining we may suggest
intranet/internet, disk base, e-mail communication for future
ordering.
Alternatively CRA will implement a fully documented
purchase order system.
So, why is Our Service
Unique???
- We
work on a contingency basis - unless we actually save the
client money, there is no charge for the service!!
We apply the TIME AND
RESOURCES to investigate cost areas that normally would not get as
much attention as a client would
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approach and technique also ensures that the client is not
required to allocate resources to the project. We provide all
the staff required. We only spend approximately two weeks on the client premises and
even then it will not be necessary for the client to allocate
staff to us during that time. The balance of the work is
completed at our offices.
- Strict
confidentiality is maintained on all information received from
clients.
Remember, the client has
nothing to lose and everything to gain!
Conclusion
Appointing CRA is no risk there are no real cost, only
real cost saving
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