Cost cutting

At certain times, it becomes necessary to take a straight-forward approach and protect your business by reducing existing costs.

We understand where the opportunities lie to remove spend from your cost base. While the real value often comes from engaging with suppliers and stakeholders who understand how and where your organisation is spending money, we have experience of a variety of methods to make quick and effective changes. This can be through: re-negotiation with existing suppliers; demand management; benchmarking; adjusting commercial models; re-engineering of specifications; lower-cost methods to get to market; alternative suppliers.

Case study: Moving to an in-house solution

Our customer is one of the leading integrated financial services providers worldwide. Challenge: This client engaged the Harler team to review their incumbent print management relationship to identify alternative operating models for the future.  The supplier's service delivery had not progressed in recent years and improved innovation or improvement was not forthcoming. Solution: Over a [...]