Everything you do goes through your operations as some point, your business strategy is at the centre of this. Finance and Marketing might set the rules but it’s generally the Operations that deliver the results. This is where you make the most from your Marketing, keep your Costs low and your Staff happy.
How can Merranti Help?
We think that the Operations is the hub, get this right and everything else will fall into place. As part of an overall package Merranti can increase efficiency and reduce your costs using tried and tested methods. This doesn’t mean Merranti will come in and reduce staff and take everything to basics, your staff are a key asset and need to be brought in with the plan. Risk is another key factor which gets reduced with efficiency with all your legally required paperwork all being dealt with for you as one package.
How do we do it?
Merranti Consulting understands how your business works, looking at all aspects at once. We target the problem causing the issues and often it’s not the obvious. We understand people and why staff will and won’t buy into your program, we can see your business from an aerial view. This is a view that can deliver solutions that can’t see from being involved.
In times of growth companies can often leave a gaping hole allowing costs to escalate and more importantly ignore opportunities that they would normally take advantage of. We were approached by a company that had done just that and held an asset by way of a large development site that also incurred large running costs to maintain.
Our instruction was to limit this cost and replace the current operations manager due to salary cost. Having met the Operations Manager they proved to be a valuable member of staff that in a normal trading climate you would retain. We persuaded the company to see operations as a potential profit centre and to allow the member of staff to prove this. We assisted in rearranging the insurance management and only insuring what was required. This reduced the need for full time security, resulting in a saving which exceeded the staffs salary.
We then looked to how the site could work for them and installed a filming location agency to offer various parts of the building. This required extensive management however it was arranged on a commission basis again assisting the company by preventing further fixed costs.
After 9 months the site had generated over £750,000 additional income and they managed to retain the Operations Manager for the following year. From our assistance they applied the same model to other sites and achieved savings all round. We were credited with saving the company.
