Combining data analytics with
sales & operations planning expertise
Actionable Insights© provides you with unique insights to:
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Identify and quantify exact root-causes for excessive inventory or stock-outs
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Generate a common understanding inside your team
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Develop your own effective and sustainable solutions within your team
* Download the 5 Step Framework we use to analyse inventory to understand the core questions to ask from the data, the conclusions you can draw from the output and the next steps to take. To download we will ask for your contact data to follow up at a later stage.
Michael Bist, Founder
Actionable Insights & Impact Consulting
Developed for a 150m EUR HSBC investment fund | Perfected for a 3.5bn Swiss multi-national
WHAT MAKES ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS DIFFERENT?
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Identifying and quantifying specific root-causes of your company's performance instead of providing only 2-dimensional situation reports
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Allocating additional dimensions to data points based on deep operational business understanding from sales to purchasing
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Empowering teams to develop their own solutions and execute on them (option of mentoring)
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Engaging teams through collaborative insight development to realise improvement potentials (even if initially hesitant) and to get on board to create their own solutions
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No hidden intention to find pre-determined issues to sell implementation projects
(example for slow moving inventory - SKUs are not solely linked to stock-turns and product category, but to purchase dates with related stock level at time of purchase, demand forecasts, purchase recommendations, buyer decisions, etc. - those together form Actionable Insights©)
INVENTORY OPTIMISATION CASE STUDIES & INSIGHTS
ENTRY LEVEL ASSESSMENT
Drawing from our executive experience, we understand the frustration of engaging with consultancies that overpromise and underdeliver, leaving you with disappointment and high costs.
To address uncertainties before committing, we've introduced an entry-level assessment. Our entry-level inventory optimisation assessment, offered at a nominal fee, empowers you to:
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Quantify your actual inventory optimisation potential.
Not all of your excessive inventory or stock-outs might be possible to eliminate sustainably. For example cases caused by external factors rather than internal root-causes, or obsolete inventory kept for warranty purposes.
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Gain insights into the quality of our data analysis.
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Get a better understanding of our collaborative approach and the fit with your team.
*In this free introduction meeting we will discuss your business and current situation and see whether Actionable Insights© is a good fit for you, your company and your goals.
ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS BACKGROUND
Actionable Insights© began as a company analysis tool for HSBC's 150m EUR mezzanine fund in Germany. It was later expanded and brought to its current extent for a 3.5bn CHF Swiss multinational holding.
It brings together a rare combination of deep analytical thinking and senior management / consulting experience across multiple functional areas.
Insights are developed by:
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Combining data and process insights from different departments, which often operate in separate data silos
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Creating a multi-dimensional analysis
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Applying logic tree methodology to discover the exact root-causes for each situational layer
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Conducting in depth feedback rounds with process owners to ensure a collaborative result
Actionable Insights© has been successfully applied to analyse performance root-causes and help teams to develop improvement solutions in over 100 companies on 5 continents in a variety of sizes and industries.
Its collaborative approach has turned a dreaded internal audit function into a searched after business partner and we will bring this collaborative experience also to your team.
TESTIMONIALS
Peter Spirig
Chief Executive Officer
V-ZUG AG
"remarkable mix of analytical rigour and practical understanding of how a business ticks"
"reports were spot on and truly value-adding from an operational perspective"
"involvement has made us a better performing outfit while keeping risks in check"
"if you need someone to help you designing key processes that are “workable”, Michael’s a superb choice."
Kari Harteva,
Vice President and Country Director Thailand,
TAO Paint
"Our Management Team and I received invaluable advice and support to strengthen our business in order to become a company it deserved to be.
Michael has an in-depth understanding of businesses and all processes. Has seen the inside-outs of numerous companies from manufacturing to trading formats. When one has seen the worst, one has a full appreciation of what needs to be done to ensure successful business operations."