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      Cash Flow Management

      Effective cash, capital, and balance sheet management is the bedrock of successful businesses. We help transform these critical areas into powerful enablers of growth, resilience, and long-term competitive advantage.

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      We work with clients at various balance sheet performance entry points. For those with strong balance sheets, our consulting services focus on optimizing cash availability, allocation, and efficiency, while improving capital allocation for stronger stakeholder returns. Organizations that still rely on traditional capital planning may limit their adaptability to changing investment priorities. We help clients reassess capital allocation with customized evaluation criteria, ensuring priority projects receive proper funding. For companies facing liquidity challenges, we provide rapid cash generation solutions, addressing urgent needs through our working capital management solution. Regardless of your starting point, we tailor our programs to enhance cash and capital capabilities, drawing on our experience from over 600 successful cash flow management cases. Our agile investment approach leverages the right tools and processes, including dynamic forecasting, streamlined governance, and approval structures as critical supports. 

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      Align cash strategy with company strategy

      Develop a cash-focused strategy that is embedded in and enables the overall company strategy

      Establish critical cash management capabilities

      Build the knowledge and tools to better assess availability, allocation, and efficiency of cash

      Put the right enablers in place

      Support these capabilities with a fit-for-purpose operating model and business processes

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      Increase your capacity to adjust to changing market conditions

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      Capital costs remain high, bolstering the impact of unlocked operational cash.

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      We supported a multifaceted program across several key projects, using Agile principles to drive impressive results.

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      Agile cost transformation ensured discipline, speed, and accountability.
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      Companies can free up significant cash by focusing on working capital, yet most struggle to make that happen. Our Net Working Capital Excellence program helps you quickly generate the cash you need to spur critical improvements to your business.

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      Turn ambition into achievement by connecting strategy, innovation, and action to drive accelerated performance.

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      Make sure that every dollar you spend serves your strategy. Zero-based budgeting creates an ownership mindset that reduces costs by 20 to 40 percent, and keeps costs out.  

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      Transform your operating model to simplify your organization, streamline work processes, reveal digital opportunities and unlock massive savings.

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      Complexity kills growth. Fight back with Complexity Management, a proven approach that boosts revenue 5%-40% and reduces costs 10%-35%. Even better, it improves customer satisfaction, inventory turns and margins.

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      Transform your support functions so they power your growth.

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      Cash Finder is a custom AI-powered solution designed to quickly help businesses unlock trapped cash in payables. Boost liquidity, cut financing costs, and strengthen financial resilience—all with unparalleled speed and efficiency.

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