A Manager's Guide to Creative Cost Cutting
A Manager's Guide to Creative Cost Cutting

Author: David W. Young

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780071396974

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A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Practical, creative strategies and solutions for cutting costs­­without cutting people In an age of cutting costs­­no matter the cost­­the unspoken contract between employer and employee has never been more tenuous. But while trimming payroll may be the easiest answer, it is often far from the best. A Manager's Guide to Creative Cost Cutting presents specific ways that companies can reduce costs without reducing staff, along with implementation plans and real-world case studies and examples. Concise and compelling, it shows today's leaders how to better leverage resources to control spiraling costs while creating a sounder, more stable work environment. Featuring 101 techniques for executives to reduce expenses and expand profits, without disrupting workers' lives and deep-sixing morale, this unique and easy-to-read guidebook: Shows how to uncover hidden costs and then reduce or eliminate them Helps readers overcome 21 common cost-reduction prohibitors Highlights real-world examples, from Intel's unpaid leave to Goodyear's debt negotiation

Food Service Managers Guide to Creative Cost Cutting
Food Service Managers Guide to Creative Cost Cutting

Author: Douglas Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13:

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This is one of the very few books written for existing operators in both the commercial and non-commercial sectors. You will find over 2,001 practical, insider techniques and tips that have been gleaned from successful operators from around the world.

2,001 Innovative Ways to Save Your Company Thousands and Reduce Costs
2,001 Innovative Ways to Save Your Company Thousands and Reduce Costs

Author: Cheryl L. Russell

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0910627770

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For the small business owner, every dollar you can save by reducing costs goes directly to the bottom line in increased profits. This book details over 2,000 specific ways that your company can reduce costs. It includes practical advice on many innovative ways to cut costs in almost every area of your business.

The Food Service Managers Guide to Creative Cost Cutting
The Food Service Managers Guide to Creative Cost Cutting

Author: Douglas Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13:

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This is one of the very few books written for existing operators in both the commercial and non-commercial sectors. You will find over 2,001 practical, insider techniques and tips that have been gleaned from successful operators from around the world and tested in real-life food service businesses. You can put this information in place today to reduce expenses and expand profits. Easy to read and understand, this step-by-step guide and will take the mystery out of how to reduce costs in four critical areas: food, beverage, operations and labor. The companion CD-ROM is not available for downlo.

Manager's Guide to Cost Reduction
Manager's Guide to Cost Reduction

Author: Janice Czaplewski

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-02-05

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781494889128

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As any business owner or CEO knows, manufacturing costs are constantly rising and you have to fight the battle every day to guard your profit margin. If you are using a Catapult to fight rising costs and your competition is using a Howitzer, you need to read this book.In this economy, if ever there was a time to use a howitzer to attack the castle where the profits are stored, this is it. Well, maybe it's not quite that serious, but you certainly can't sit back and just hope it gets better. The only way it will get better is if you are proactive, and the sooner you start the more impact you can have. This book will help you evaluate your situation to see if you need to do a cost reduction project, help you choose the project, walk you through the steps of a project, and even take it to the next level with cost containment. After you have done the work to reduce the costs, you want to make sure they don't creep up on you after the project is complete.There are some really good tips to make the process easier and at the end of the book there are even “Excel Hints” to help you with the spreadsheets. Just remember that if you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. Are you ready to do something different? If so, try these proven methods – today!This book is for managers to get the overview and understand the process. Order the full sized, full color companion workbook for the people that will be doing the projects.

Cut Costs Not Corners
Cut Costs Not Corners

Author: Colin Barrow

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2010-05-03

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0749459778

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Cost cutting is an issue for every manager and executive at every level in every company, large or small, public or private sector. Junior managers who are proactively tight on cost are learning good habits for the future, ones that will bring them recognition and advance their climb up the organizational chart. The HR department is now staffed with tough cost managers dealing with the most difficult cost category, people. Marketing departments now focus on how to get higher returns from less spend. Cut Costs Not Corners has a coherent and structured approach to cost cutting as a permanent activity, combined with guidance on the practical steps to take and powerful international case studies. It covers strategic and tactical cost cutting options such as analysing space needs, buying technology for less, selling off redundant assets, reducing credit risk, reviewing distribution methods, sourcing new suppliers or consolidating existing ones, advertising for less, changing the route to market, travel and utility savings, minimising finance and tax costs, crisis measures - freezing recruitment, delaying pay rises, sell and lease back assets - keeping budgets rolling and using a daily cash flow model.

The Cost Management Toolbox
The Cost Management Toolbox

Author: Lianabel Oliver

Publisher: Amacom Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780814470534

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This text provides a presentation of how to use financial information to manage costs. It explains how the financial processes of an organization are interrelated, and interprets these processes in the context of the firm's strategic objectives and long-term goals.

The Non-commercial Food Service Manager's Handbook
The Non-commercial Food Service Manager's Handbook

Author: Douglas Robert Brown

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0910627819

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Finally, the non-commercial food service director has a comprehensive manual to aid them in their day-to-day operations. This massive 624-page new book will show you step by step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation. The author has left no stone unturned. The book has 19 chapters that cover the entire process from startup to ongoing management in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid many common mistakes. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through basic cost-control systems, menu planning, sample floor plans and diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety and HACCP, dietary considerations, special patient/client needs, learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, learn how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. The extensive resource guide details over 7,000 suppliers to the industry; this directory could be a separate book on its own. This covers everything for which many companies pay consultants thousands of dollars. The companion CD-ROM is included with the print version of this book; however is not available for download with the electronic version. It may be obtained separately by contacting Atlantic Publishing Group at [email protected] Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.