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resource box is included with article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 994 words long including resource box. Thanks for your interest.What Would you Do with $1,000,000?
With $1 Million would you: •Pay off debt? •Purchase new equipment? •Invest/save for future? •Give yourself a bonus?
$1,000,000 Waiting in Wings
What do you and your business need that you have been putting off because you don’t have money today? $1 Million certainly would fill those needs. But where do you find 1 Million just lying around your business right now? Well, you probably have $250,000 in each of four areas in your everyday business, and you don’t even realize it.
Money in Business Procedures
And so let’s look at four places in your business where we will find $250,000 each and see how we can help you find it:
Part 1: Inventory - $250,000.00 Part 2: Receivables - $250,000.00 Part 3: Sales - $250,000.00 Part 4: Accounts Payable - $250,000.00 Part 5: Procedures - $1,000,000.00
Turn Cash into Time with a New Company Policy
But just what exactly is this source for cash? It’s time. If you are looking for $250,000 then it costs you $4,808 every week that you delay. So what you do with your time quite literally amounts to either costs of delaying, or it can amount to savings when you take action and control of your time. To correct this cost of delay, an increase in velocity must follow - which will set difference between 'good' and 'great'. The consequences of this shift in system velocity increases discipline and competency: ability to maintain increased velocity and ability to make adjustments to achieve 'great'. So how do you realize difference?
Eliminate Inventory and Increase Cash
Let’s start with biggest, most obvious source – your balance sheet, specifically inventory. If you are a manufacturer with $300,000 or more of inventory (raw materials, work in process or finished goods) then STOP! We found it. Why? Because inventory is an unproductive asset. Inventory is money, and having it lying around your factory is not where your money belongs. So if we reduce inventory to Just-In-Time (JIT) levels, then we can eliminate 85% or more of your inventory, which translates into $250,000 in cash. But that's not all. You will also save another $50,000 or more in annual inventory carrying costs. With less inventory, there are lower costs of holding inventory. Let's look at an example of what we're talking about.
Manufacturing Business Procedures Case Study
A manufacturing organization with 2 Million in average inventory balances needed assistance. We examined their inventory consisting of raw materials, work in process and finished goods to understand and quantify workflow, workload, and demand forecasting issues. Then we designed and implemented a process to improve their inventory cycle and tie it closer to their actual sales.
The metrics we developed reduced their inventories by 85% and increased their manufacturing cycle efficiency from 60% to 90% within 120 days of implementing new procedures. With these new processes and reports, company now tracks manufacturing cycle efficiency and delivery time variance rather than just units produced, as measure of their manufacturing effectiveness. The result: extra capital plus a 50% increase in process capability (capacity).
