1.     Management Level Planning

The Management Strategy core operation for BOD and EXECUTIVES, Frankly SME Owners are more trained in same than any other professionals in world, despite this fact they need support from ABC3M to reconfigure business operations in tune with modern business processes. The problem of SME is not “Understanding of Situation” but is “required process for transition”, “Techniques to Track and Control Changes” and “updating knowledge base about operating procedures under evolving processes”

Instead of Discussing each strategy in detail we are going to use Question based Analytics Method to measure organizational performance for same, same time keeping in mind the adoption of each strategy is function of BOD AND EXECUTIVES has to be kept in mind. Another important aspect that must be understood STRATEGY is Outcome of COSTING PLANNING, whether those cost are monetary or non-monetary. In order to Discuss Same here are few essential control strategies from ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT perspective:

1.       Strategies Used for Production

a.       Lead Strategy

b.      Chase Strategy

c.       Level Strategy

2.       Bottleneck Analysis Done by Management

3.       Value Analysis Exercise and Monitoring Value Chain Analysis for Absolution due to Changes in Market

4.       Periodic Internal and External Benchmarking Process Adaptation

5.       Value Chain Analysis is Established in Overall Organization Level or Not?

6.       Whether Life Cycle Costing is used for Overall Product Planning?

7.       What is Learning Curve and Experience Curve of Directors

8.       Does Directors have formal Process for Growth Planning and Performance Analysis?

9.       Does Directors have made efforts into stabilizing Import and also have made efforts into import substitutes development?

10.   What is Margin of Safety Considered by Management for Control of Additional Expenses to be incurred for improved performance?

11.   Strategy Employed for Improving Overall Organizational Imbalance in Sales and Production Scheduling

12.   Does Joint Venture and Special Arrangement opportunities are searched by Management with Identified Market Opportunities

13.   Talent Management Strategy Adopted by Management?

14.   Pricing Strategy

15.   Product and Product Mix and Placement Strategy

16.   Quality Function Development and Cost of Quality with respect to Premium Earning Strategy used by Management

17.   Market Share Improvement Strategy by Management

18.   Competition Management Strategy used by Management

19.   SCM optimization Strategy Used by Management

20.   Attrition Control Mechanism used by Management

21.   CRM Strategy used by Management

22.   Drs and Crs Management Policy by Management

23.   Creation of Policy Document across all Functions to optimized operations

24.   Fund Management and Non-Core Investment management policy

25.   Contingencies Management Plan preparation from Management

26.   Asset Acquisition Plan and Financing Strategy to build Core Infrastructure and Supporting Investments Policy

27.   Strategy for Building Overseas Operations

28.   Vertical and Lateral Business Combinations and Acquisition Strategy

29.   Overall Human Resource Retention and Development Policy

30.   Debt-Equity Mix Management Policy

31.   Executive Development for Segments Development Strategy

32.   Use of Related Parties for Deeper Business Integration Strategy

33.   EPS Planning for Potential IPO or DEBT Listing for Capital Structure Improvement Strategy

34.   Industry Leadership Attainment Resource Planning

35.   Risk Management Strategy

36.   Use of IT Tools for Effective Business Process Management Strategy

37.   R&D Area Identification and Linking same with Industry Trend Development Analysis

38.   Brand Value Development Strategy

39.   DISTINCTIVE ADVANTAGE CREATION ANALYSIS

40.   Distribution Network Development and Cost Control Strategy

41.   PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY

 

Again this is not a complete list, as discussed earlier; ABC3M requires each function to be addressed as different Client-Service Relationship to enable company to establish Business Process according to their own requirements and based on same they have to revise planning 2-3 times to first establish rules that will help them face future and accommodate needed flexibility in company operations to for change. Then they can have right mix of strategy, But again for same they need to Decide the Profit Centres and Cost Centres along with Cost Driver and Cost Unit and then identify primary overheads allocation method and then secondary allocation method to arrive at perfect strategy, Once this exercise is complete next step is to assess these Cost Drivers and their respective role in future due to change in technology and then select a strategy to mange them. In this Exercise various facts and information needed to be dealt again and again to mature system and to accept an accommodating reporting structure and that is what can be said to be near perfect MIS, The Final Objective of ABC3M implementation process and yet the exercise still stays open, as every quarter or financial period the parameters need to be changed to accommodate changes in environment that change the input cost, and to match it with output; company needs to keep doing this exercise again and again and also need to take help of tools like Target Costing to enable company in Maintaining the DISTINCTIVE ADVANTAGE.

 

ABC3M is a perpetual process to enable company to create and reinvent DISTINCTIVE ADVANTAGE, That must be done again and again to make it as tool to improve function and Business Operations, That allows SME’s to Stand a chance against Large Players. As professionals our job is to enable SME’s to Find that DISTINCTIVE ADVANTAGE AND MIS that will enable them to win this.