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Activity-Based Cost Management - A Value-Centric Solution

Globalization… Decentralization…Restructuring... Mergers & Acquisitions…Change...

Market dynamics and change are revolutionizing the way companies currently do business. To compete effectively in this volatile economy, rapid decision-making is the lifeblood of today’s executive. Decisions on business strategy that could mean the difference between surviving the change unscathed or fighting for economic survival depends on accurate, detailed information to illuminate the links between long-term strategies and day-to-day processes. Yet most executives are forced to make these decisions with incomplete and often inaccurate information.

Despite heavy investment in business intelligence and performance management solutions, strategic decisions in most companies are based on the numbers found in standard costing systems, traditional financial reports and spreadsheets. These reports often contain improper assignments of costs, which give companies a distorted view of true profitability.

Activity Based Cost Management is the cornerstone of strategic decision making, because it pinpoints your most profitable customers, products, regions or channels, as well as uncovers the costs of individual business processes, that may need to be improved in order to drive higher profit levels. Armed with this critical information, a company can decide to take a number of management actions including:

Essentially, whether a company is documenting their business processes ("What do we do?"), measuring key performance indicators ("How effectively do we do it?"), or devising profit strategies ("How should we do it better?"), ABCM will provide the insight required to transform business with effective decisions that optimize cost and maximize profitability.

Adjility Expands the Focus from ABCM to Integrated Value-Centric Management

Adjility Consulting is a leading provider of best-in-class Activity Based Cost Management solutions. Since ABCM is an integral element of many other strategic enterprise initiatives, Adjility leverages their extensive experience in this arena to deliver integrated, value-centric management solutions that provide mission critical information and feed into…

• Balanced Scorecards
• Customer, Product and Channel Cost & Profitability Analysis
• Activity Based Budgeting and Planning
• Customer Relationship Management
• Product Pricing
• Shared Services Implementation
• Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Performance Measurement and Management Solutions