Cost Reduction

Do you have high customer product returns rates, and / or looking for improved profit margins? If so, then PDQA is able to identify more profitable ways to tackle:

Customer Returns and Transit Damage

Costs can often be saved and recovered from suppliers by reviewing your current products and their packaging. Simple improvements can subsequently have significant effects on reducing the associated costs of customer complaints, transit damage and replacement items / components.

We can help you with:

• Reviewing and analysing your business returns processes and data.
• Investigating issues and identifying root causes.
• Offering proposals for improvements.
• Assist with cost recovery from suppliers and logistics providers.

Cross-costing and Resourcing of Production

Are your cost prices increasing, and /or are you benefiting from the economies of scale from your orders?

We can help you with:

• Management of ‘cross-costing’ exercise.
• Supplier negotiations.
• Movement of production to a different factory.

Testing Costs

One way to ensure compliance is through 3rd party testing. However, with a commercial / risk based approach, in some instances, commonality of components and material can mitigate duplication of testing and unnecessary cost. We are not a testing laboratory, and can often save you money by establishing cost effective compliance options some of which may already be within your supply chain.

We can help you with:

• Guiding you on the correct testing required for your product.
• Investigate and propose cost savings.