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Cost reduction-

Emergency measures / examples

This is not a measure to change the structure, but a small-handed measure that cannot be advanced very much, but when a company is in a difficult situation in terms of business performance, it spends time without taking any effective measures, and later. Employees are unbearable if "salaries and bonuses are cut".
In order to prevent such a thing from happening, "emergency measures" for cost reduction are unavoidable means.

"Emergency measures" are to achieve the "profit target" by "cost reduction" when the profit target cannot be achieved even though the settlement date is approaching, and changing the structure explained so far is in time. not.

Therefore, as the direction of measures

"Stop = Cancel" , "Postpone = Postpone" , "Reduce = Reduce" ,

There are only these three, but all are limited to reducing the "quantity".

The things to do when implementing "emergency measures" are as follows.


1) Setting the person in charge of implementing "emergency measures"
* The president is the most suitable person in charge because it shows the importance of the matter and the size of the determination (if it is absolutely impossible, an officer equivalent to the president is set).

2) Disclosure of current performance and future forecasts
* Clarify how much the business performance will deviate from the profit budget if it remains as it is (even if it is impossible to give accurate figures, it is necessary to have an approximate figure or an achievement rate in%).

3) Sharing the crisis of budget underachievement as it is
* Shared recognition of the crisis of "profit budget not reached" company-wide

4) Clarify the purpose of implementing "emergency measures"
* Clarify the achievement of profit budget by implementing "emergency measures"

5) Setting the target amount for "emergency measures"
* Clarify the target amount for "emergency measures" and share how much the budget will be achieved.

6) Materialization of "emergency measures"
* Thoroughly inform the contents, target amount and start time of each measure of "emergency measures" through briefing sessions and notifications

7) Secretariat setting
* Set as a control tower for thorough implementation and follow-up of "emergency measures"

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