Case study:

Created double-digit margin improvements at multi-billion-dollar retailer by reducing costs, increasing revenues, and engaging employees

Company Profile

Large retailer with thousands of stores located throughout the United States 

Business Imperatives

• Control increasing costs in an extremely competitive environment
• Realize value of acquisitions that had not yet been integrated
• Strengthen management of dispersed workforce

Our Approach

• Structured and executed an enterprise-wide process improvement program to drive key strategic imperatives
• Aligned executive team and key champions; trained 200+ black belts
• Established Finance, IT, HR, communication systems
• Focused project selection efforts on key business opportunities
• Tailored the enterprise-wide work to the specific needs and characteristics of individual operating and functional units
• Created a leveraged process to take improvement processes and projects from one division to the next

Results

Close to $200 million annualized, recurring margin, representing 10%+ of firm’s entire net operating profits.  After 3 years, client has a self-sustaining program.

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