Infrastructure Costs
Infrastructure Costs: managing the variety of organizational costs efficiently
Infrastructure costs are necessary for the functioning of any organization, they can be characterized in extremely different ways and have a different impact depending on the business at hand. When considered individually the amounts often seem negligible. However, when considered altogether they reach significant totals.
It is common to draw attention away from the management of the single cost, on one hand because it may seem too negligible to take care of, on the other because it requires specific expertise that isn't always available in-house.
The Competence Centre for Infrastructure Costs offers business analytics tools for Digital Cost Management so as to apply efficient control over costs while wasting as little energy as possible.
Insurance
Critical Issues
This cost category is often handled by in-house personnel with limited relevant skills, who handle accidents in a non-professional way; in other cases its management is fully delegated to a broker or local agencies of the insurance companies, thus losing know-how and control. The growth of companies and the markets is instead demanding insurance policies that are always up-to-date so as to guarantee coverage of all corporate risks and, at the same time, the best financial terms and conditions.Intervention Strategy
Consumables
Critical Issues
These goods have a low single-unit value, but the issue becomes relevant if we consider their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Companies often show low sensibility towards controlling this expense, entrusting its management to non-specialized staff who work thinking about satisfying the internal client and not in terms of cost optimization or optimization of the processes connected to it.Intervention Strategy
Advertising ( Brochures / Flyers / Direct-mail Catalogues )
Critical Issues
This cost category requires specific skills in supplier selection and accurate analysis of the relationship between cost optimization and needs, to assess for example the number of prints for a catalogue so as to achieve a good level of savings compared to the unit cost, avoiding overprinting and thus waste.Intervention Strategy
Real Estate Management
Critical Issues
This cost category has a significant impact on the management of the company in financial and legal terms: The proper sizing of the need for space and careful evaluation of the geographic location of the chosen facilities is particularly strategic. This is why such studies could take up a lot of the company's time and resources, and could require specialized skills that aren't always available within the company itself.Intervention Strategy
Cleaning
Critical Issues
Cleaning costs are an important chapter under Facility Management. It is important to carry out a careful and cautious supplier selection to avoid problems related not only to the accuracy and quality of the service, but also to compliance as regards the corporate policy. For example, as regards environmental sustainability when using certain procedures or the use of certain cleaning products, tools and chemicals.Intervention Strategy
Waste Management
Critical Issues
This cost category is not easily monitorable, as it includes often unspecified fixed and variable costs, such as tools, selection, warehousing, transport, disposal and taxes. On top of these there are those aspects that regard the relationship between private corporate services and public service, municipally owned, and taxes that follow constantly-changing regulations.Intervention Strategy
Security Management
Critical Issues
This cost category requires wide-spectrum and highly specialized skills so as to be able to satisfactorily "secure" several aspects of the business. Improper management of this cost category, on the other hand, could have a strongly negative effect on the whole structure, because it involves different roles and processes at different levels.Intervention Strategy
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