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Support Function Advantage

Go beyond efficiency to act as effective, valued business partners. Bain Support Function Advantage partners with IT, finance, HR, legal, real estate and facilities management, and other support functions to shift their focus to more value-added activities while reducing costs.

Support Function Advantage

Why Bain

Why Bain

  • We challenge the status quo and think boldly and pragmatically to help you achieve your aspirations.
  • We bring external best practices and benchmarks; powerful digital tools (such as Bain Org Architect, Bain Activity-Based Costing and, process mining); design tools; and Bain Results Accelerator.
  • We tailor our proven approach based on your unique situation and utilize our dedicated Support Function Center of Excellence to serve your needs.
  • We fundamentally change how work is done by simplifying, eliminating low-value activities and harnessing digital.
  • We employ a collaborative process—executed with you, not to you.
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Results You Can Expect

Results You Can Expect

Higher satisfaction

Raise satisfaction among stakeholders served by support functions.

Lower costs, better service

Achieve greater than 20% cost savings combined with improved service quality.

Organizational buy-in

Secure buy-in at all levels of the organization to make change happen—and stick.

Embedded capabilities

Embed capabilities in your team to sustain savings and drive continuous improvement.

Client Results

Consumer Products

Strategic G&A approach cooks up savings

Our consumer goods client was searching for savings. Despite efforts to reduce General and Administrative (G&A) spending, executives still lacked a holistic view of where the money went. The firm overspent on inefficient support functions and skimped on high-priority areas. Bain helped the company develop an end-to-end view of functional costs and a new strategy to align spending with business needs.

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Our Team

Michael Heric Partner New York

  • Bain Shared Services
  • Bain Support Function Advantage
  • Capability Sourcing
  • Cloud
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Performance Improvement
  • Technology
  • Telecommunications

Kurt Grichel Partner Seattle

  • Bain Support Function Advantage
  • Performance Improvement
  • Retail

Sabine Atieh Partner Paris

  • Bain Support Function Advantage
  • Chemicals
  • Energy & Natural Resources
  • Performance Improvement
  • Utilities & Renewables
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Insights
Performance Improvement
Kurt Grichel: Rethinking How Finance Uses Digital Tools
Bain Partner Kurt Grichel discusses the four ways finance departments can use existing technologies to their fullest.
Video
Performance Improvement
Fast and Easy G&A Cuts Won’t Cut It in the Next Recession
Companies need to raise their G&A cost efficiency.
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Performance Improvement
Think Cutting G&A Costs in the Next Recession Will Be Easy? Think Again
Cost efficiency has stalled, despite massive investment in digital technologies.
Brief
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