Responding to the external factors affecting your organisation. Reducing cost to enable transformation. Looking to rapidly address significant cost pressures. You want to balance your immediate financial stability with long-term profitability and resilience. Strategic cost management and efficient operations will be crucial as you stay competitive and adapt.
Our approach to cost reduction not only maintains profitability during volatile times but also provides a robust foundation for growth and transformation.
We’ll work with you to review strategies, free up resources, and tackle issues such as global trade tariffs, inflation and rising costs, while providing practical support, and ensuring smooth transitions. We’ll also work with you to bring in emerging technologies to enhance efficiency, automate and eliminate non-value activities. In turn, augmenting your people, freeing up their time and empowering them to add their own unique value.
Explore how we can help you manage costs, build confidence and deliver future growth.
A blueprint for sustainable productivity
With transformation expertise, industry and functional knowledge, our Rapid Cost Reduction team provides hands on support to deliver sustainable and fast cost reduction. We can design and implement commercially viable plans with you, generating the headroom required to avoid crisis and invest in future growth areas.
We can tailor our approach to develop and implement realistic and pragmatic plans for your organisation, giving you the confidence to make tough decisions and drive through change in a short timeframe.
“It’s tempting for many businesses to focus on growing the top line, cutting costs, and exploring strategic options such as selling parts of the business. It's easy to take for granted that the cash position is visible, accessible and will ultimately look after itself. But, building a cash conscious culture that permeates throughout the entire organisation is what will help protect businesses on the bumpy road ahead.”
The benefits of Generative AI (GenAI) have moved beyond basic efficiency and productivity gains. From gaining market share and enhancing creativity to personalising offerings and launching new products, it offers abundant opportunities to create business growth in an unpredictable economy.
As GenAI continues to evolve, it is reshaping industries by lowering entry costs and enabling new platform players. This disruption presents an opportunity for organisations to rethink strategies, embrace innovation and find new routes to growth.
36%
of UK CEOs expect GenAI to increase profitability this year
PwC’s 28th UK CEO Survey
By 2028, at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI, up from zero percent in 2024.
Business leaders are considering strategic and longer-term factors to increase their organisation’s resilience and optimise costs. These factors may include supply chain digitisation, new planning processes and procedures, automation, or AI-driven cognitive supply chains that enable ongoing transformation.
Understanding future operational needs is key to putting the right structure, culture and tech in place. We can help you find new value through integrated business and tactical planning, procurement, digital manufacturing and fulfilment.
By combining end-to-end supply chain expertise, digital transformation capabilities and relationships with leading technology providers, we'll help you create the agile and effective supply chain strategy you need to respond to challenges and deliver sustained outcomes.
“Only by developing the right blueprint for sustainable productivity - and the right technology to deliver results - can you embrace change, deliver on your purpose and create lasting value for all.”
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Leader - Enterprise Operations and Transformation, PwC United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)7730 146256
