CRD Business Consulting LLC

CRD Business Consulting specializes in bringing bottom line profitability improvements to our clients through the use of advanced cost and performance management techniques.

Saving money for our clients is our number one priority

Cost management benefits we have delivered:

• Insurance - $2B IT Costing implementation based on Activity-Based Costing
• Shared Service Center - $3M recovered in payments utilizing cost analysis
• Telecom - $30M cost improvement from process redesign utilizing cost analysis, Activity-Based Management, IT Chargeback and cost model development
• Financial Services - $9M reduction in payment processing costs utilizing cost analysis and Activity-Based Costing
• Shipping and Distribution - $300M in cost savings utilizing cost model development and cost benchmarking
• Semiconductors - $60M in increased revenue and $10M in profits from improved mix management utilizing the Theory of Constraints, Cost Accounting and Standard Costing
• Automotive - $7M cost savings in IT organization utilizing IT Costing, IT Chargeback and Activity-Based Management (ABM) 
  

We Specialize in Cost and Performance Management Solutions

Our clients typically experience at least a 20% improvement in cost savings and profitability. 

These improvements are obtained using techniques and methods that include:

• Activity-Based Management (ABM)
• Activity-Based Costing (ABC)
• Cost Model Development
• Cost Analysis
• Cost Saving Programs
• IT Costing
• IT Chargeback
• Standard Costing
• Cost Accounting
• Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
• Benchmarking
• Six Sigma
• Theory of Constraints (TOC)
• Shared Services Redesign.

Contact us today to learn how we can help you improve your costs!  

Our goal is to identify and capture cost savings and profit improvements while establishing a maintainable process and transferring that knowledge to our client’s staff.

Please contact us anytime to get started.   You can contact us here.

Recent events:

Spoke at the ITFMA conferences in St. Louis (June 22-24, 2011), San Antonio (July 20-22, 2011) and San Francisco (April 18-20, 2012), Scottsdale (August 22-24, 2012).

Upcoming events:

Speaking at the ITFMA conference Mobile, AL (April 1-5, 2013) and Savannah, GA (July 8-12, 2013).

Useful cost management links:

Gary Cokins, an internationally recognized expert in cost management, provides a variety of downloadable articles at www.garycokins.com.

Article from Gary quoting Chris Dedera:

When IT Services are Free, Guess the Consequences