Cost optimisation | PA Consulting

With the global economy set for a significant reset, cutting costs has become essential to survival for many organisations. But too often, a short-term focus on cash flow and liquidity can reduce innovation and long-term competitiveness. Our experts can help you turn straight forward cost-cutting into a longer term cost optimisation, designed to provide you with competitive advantage.

Working together

We believe a long-term focus on cost, embedded in the mindset of your people, can create opportunities to find innovative, differentiated approaches to cost optimisation.

Our tried-and-tested approach contains six dimensions vital to controlling costs. Working alongside your teams, we can help provide the strategy, governance, processes, tools, skills and methodologies to optimise your organisation’s costs. We’ll support you through a diagnostic process that looks at all six dimensions of cost-out maturity, assessing where you are and where you need to be to outperform the competition.

Committed to finding the opportunity in challenging times, our experts will ensure that your organisation's ability to grow, innovate and compete doesn't suffer in the face of economic challenge.

Featured insight

Cost-out

It’s one thing to be good at cost-cutting; another entirely to be able to turn cost optimisation into enhanced and enduring competitive advantage.

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How healthcare organisations can cut costs by consolidating contract data

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In the media

Preparing for economic uncertainty in the supply chain

PA Consulting Consumer and Manufacturing experts Andy Prinz and Drew Andrew share how organizations can prepare supply chain for an economic slowdown

Expert views

Cost management is often seen as a finance function, but it’s for all of us. It’s everybody’s business and this calls for strong governance.”

Shanton Wilcox Supply chain and manufacturing

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In order to sustainably break the declining profitability trend, the financial sector should develop a strategy that consistently integrates cost efficiency into the business.”

Joacim Sundell Transport

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Healthcare organisations have a significant opportunity to improve their current IT maintenance management practices and better manage contract spend.”

Edward Wallace Healthcare

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