In the first part of this series we established that by managing the element of time better it is possible to reduce the cash needs …

The New Business Reality

For the first time in decades, instead of experiencing continuous growth, this last several-year period has been one where many businesses …

The Challenge: This was a reasonably profitable $80M manufacturing business located in the Midwest. The business was comprised of five manufacturing plants that all supplied …

In today’s businesses, manufacturing overhead is often a major portion of product costs. There are two elements to overhead – variable and fixed costs. In …

In today’s business environment, labor is much lower as a total percent of sales than it was several decades ago. I can remember in the …