Operational Performance Improvement Practice

Ephor Group increases profits for firms through our Perform Business Process™, a proven, pragmatic, measurement and metrics driven methodology.

Businesses that are underperforming are always sequestered by more than one factor.  Perform Business Process™ combines a pragmatic analysis of the company, its capital structure, and a performance improvement initiative. We then fill-in-the-gaps between the resources the company can bring to bear on the problem and the needed solution. 

Organizational Effectiveness Aligned with Financial Results.

Increasing profits means improving the following business drivers:

• Identification of cost-savings (Order-to-cash waste elimination or outsourcing for example)
• Daily operating performance alignment and improvement
• Operational scalability (Supply Chain Management, Lean Implementation, Six Sigma Implementation)
• Leveraging economic efficiencies

What Sets Ephor Performance Improvement Group Apart:

Ephor Group creates constituency alignment between all stake holders (investors, boards, suppliers, partners, employees, etc.) to improve operating and financial performance.  Ephor Group’s Perform Business Process™ ensures consistent, measurable results.  Furthermore:

• Talent that has operating, consulting , Six Sigma / Lean, Supply Chain Management and vertical domain specialists as well
• Speed-to-value to obtain quick impact results
• Quantitative results (not opinions and plans)
• Sustainable improvement

Ephor Group Operational Performance Improvement Practice services include:

• Evaluation of business plan to ensure projected revenues and profits are achievable and that the tactical plan to achieve projection plans is in place and metrics are established and progress to date evidences  plan effectiveness.
• Review inventory levels, accuracy, turns, ageing, and plans to reduce inventory levels without service disruption to support cash flow and generate working capital.
• Review current operational cost containment and reduction plans and determine plan effectiveness. Excess or unnecessary costs reduce profit, cash flow, and availability of resources. Plans must be in place to allow the company to persevere under unfavorable business conditions, plans need to be in place to develop high levels of efficiency to ensure financial obligations are meet.
• Assess Order-to-Cash process to identify operational issues / inefficiencies and determine if resource allocation is appropriate.
• Assess expenses to identify potential cost saving opportunities and to assure expense have been reduced as revenues decreased.
• Assess the distribution system and identify possible cost reduction opportunities.

Operating Metrics

• DSO reduction
• Cycle time reductions
• Waste elimination
• Layout and operations improvement
• Outsourcing
• Constituency alignment (organizational and executive alignment)
• Due diligence and M&A support
• Cost-savings
• Interim and/or crisis management

A thorough assessment is at the heart of our process. Read more about our assessment process the Perform Business Process™. For additional information please contact us.

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