CFO Actual Combat: Double Regulation Of Cost Optimization

"Thanks to the origin of science and engineering, when the product manager tells me what is a hoist and what torque is, I can quickly grasp it."

Zhang Rui, who was originally engaged in professional financial work, now speaks of BOSCH Rexroth's products and production lines.

In her words, "although it is a financial personnel, it is necessary to understand the production line in the cost optimization management of projects."

Of course, even if Zhang Rui knows more about the production process, he also needs a project manager to cooperate with him.

Zhang Rui said, "the cost optimization of our type of production process is to cover almost all departments of the company.

In general, the so-called "throttling" that we understand may be rationalization proposals, saving water and electricity and so on.

And our cost optimization is more than that.

When we do cost optimization, we must have a dedicated project manager, because we need to make the most reasonable planning for the design of the production line and the capacity of each machine, such as whether the capacity of the machine is optimal.

It is emphasized that many problems can not be seen under the condition that the production line is not saturated, but once the capacity is saturated, the problem of unreasonable design of the production line will be concentrated.

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The problem of unreasonable design directly results in the increase of investment in equipment by the production department.

But for BOSCH, which has complex production lines, high technology content and high equipment requirements, the cost of a production line is very high. Therefore, it is the core work of Zhang Rui's cost control to optimize the design and management of every production line.

In fact, the rationality of productivity is a concept of interval, and saturation and oversaturation will be given.

Optimization brings trouble. Zhang Rui told us that "when the cost is optimized, the difficulty usually lies in the change of the market environment. When the market environment has undergone a bad change, it is often the most stringent requirement for our cost optimization, such as the reduction of orders, but the production line and labor cost are fixed. How to achieve the cost optimization management at this time is often the difficulty of the work."

Zhang Rui was also troubled by this kind of difficulty. Finally, the trouble was solved by a senior manager who was engaged in cost optimization.

"He said that although we are financial workers, we must always go to the production line to see, believe me, every time you go, you will find that there is room for improvement.

This is indeed the case. Every time I go, I can find some problems. The continuous resolution of these problems is the gradual process of cost optimization.

Unlike traditional finance, many of our work is to have a deep understanding of the product line. "