| • Understand what drives the overhead expenditure of the vendors to identify cost-saving initiatives through gaining complete visibility into cost elements such as up-front costs, ongoing costs, costs to run etc.,
• Spot additional benefits such as tax claims, rebates, energy savings, etc., that can be used to select the most optimal solutions |
| • Choose the solution that provides you maximum benefit. For example, a product requiring high initial investment or up-front costs may still be beneficial due to low maintenance cost over the ownership period compared to alternatives with lower initial investment
• Conduct value engineering to replace high-cost items with alternatives that are cost effective and to achieve continuous improvement and align with best cost sourcing philosophy |
| • SpendEdge’s insights help you figure out if making or outsourcing a product or service is better. We also help you choose between global sourcing and low/best cost country sourcing strategies
• Our detailed cost engineering techniques for TCO supplemented with granular insights will aid in decision making and improve operational efficiency
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Our experts have over 20 years of experience in insights generation. This has helped us to offer accurate TCO analysis to several of our Fortune 500 clients. Our clients have constantly realized the benefits of TCO to achieve incremental savings, competitive edge through identification of cost saving opportunities.
Our experts spare no effort to ensure they deliver high-quality outcomes in the shortest time possible. They make sure to include all factors to consider in TCO analysis to go as granular as possible. Time constraints have never held us back from ensuring attention to detail. All aspects of a product/service are taken into consideration while building the TCO calculator.
Special efforts are taken to ensure the clients have the best understanding of all cost elements involved when owning a product or service. Our experts conduct thorough value engineering to identify specific cost elements such as manufacturing cost, labor cost, raw material cost, transportation cost etc., to provide best granular insights.
TCO analysis focuses only on the cost and tends to overlook benefits offered by products/services. However, our benchmarking experts help clients get the complete picture as we are known for offering one-stop solutions. This has helped several of our clients use our reports as efficient TCO calculator and create value beyond cost savings.
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