{"id":3517,"date":"2020-09-23T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyivlogisticsschool.com\/audit-consulting\/"},"modified":"2021-11-07T01:16:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T22:16:21","slug":"audit-consulting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kyivlogisticsschool.com\/en\/audit-consulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Logistics consulting and operational audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Consulting by Kyiv Logistics School<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eventually, any business has a crisis of ideas or a procrastination period. This is neither good nor bad, this period is typical for the company\u2019s functioning<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes companies deliberately choose to hold positions for various reasons. For example, low productive capacities or lack of staff strongly affects choosing this way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But companies do not necessarily make this choice consciously, it commonly happens on its own due to various factors. Business processes are equally influential. Their well-functioning is the main indicator of the company&#8217;s willingness for expansion and further development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right decision in this period would be seeking professional consulting. Consulting by Kyiv Logistics School is an excellent solution for your company. Practitioners will help you with setting up any branch of the business process, tell you about its implementation specificities in a particular area, give advice on ways of implementing optimization and validate all changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Logistics School is an international expertise platform where each expert has a sufficient number of certificates confirming their deep knowledge of certain industries. Applying for consulting, you can be fully confident in the information quality which will be provided and the competence level of the specialists further working with you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results of each client and partner are important for Kyiv Logistics School. After consulting, companies return to \u201cthe Big Game\u201d and become powerful rivals. They multiply traffic, the marginality of operations, reduce logistics costs, grow and place a large market share.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An experts\u2019 team will not only help to improve existing functioning but will also provide you with detailed advice on other niches and give recommendations concerning new business areas. If it\u2019s necessary, experts will draw up a business model including the risk probability and all development scenarios. This type of service gives a business and its owners the ability to save a large amount of their own time, money, resources choosing a direction that may turn out to be unprofitable or unwinnable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years of experience of the school&#8217;s experts have positively influenced the development of dozens of companies as well as helped to establish additional business units and lead companies on the innovative marketplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Audit by Kyiv Logistics School<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All over the world, it is considered normal to use external expertise for assessing the operational efficiency of the company. It does not negate the presence of quality management departments and an operational performance management department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts highlight issues that the company\u2019s employees might not have noticed. Each company has growth zones. There isn\u2019t a company with a perfectly functioning business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s great when the company&#8217;s owners understand the importance of conducting regular audits to adhere to the path of sustainable development and continuous improvement. Experts notice the smallest details and elementary chronophages which unfortunately are not in plain view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s great if the company knows how to maintain the achieved results and tries to do something for the development progress daily. At that point, it is important to manage all business processes for overall coherent functioning and being a single mechanism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While holding positions it is necessary to conduct regular sets of performance indicators for each division, to analyze the gaps forming as a result of daily work, to work them out with the further elimination of the problem source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The best method for conducting a set of indicators is comparing an existing company&#8217;s success with a benchmark &#8211; the world&#8217;s best practices. Benchmarking will be most effective in a way of comparing similar companies or enterprises of the same business area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides, for conducting a high-quality set of indicators it is necessary to have a metrics catalog which will be useful for effective tracking of each division in all business processes. Using metrics an enterprise can control the customer service quality, the profitability level, the warehouse, the transport department functioning, manufacturing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Metrics can be useful for business owners intending to monitor their team&#8217;s functioning. This relates to any department because each has its own KPIs set and performance indicators. Metrics is a highly adaptive means and may be established based on the specificities of a particular company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What is the meaning of consulting and auditing for a company<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An integrated strategy is a choice of two optimization issues at once by Kyiv Logistics School. Consulting and auditing are better functioning in the complex because an initial audit may help to identify needs, weaknesses, bottlenecks. Then, subsequent consulting gives an ability to reduce them and further eliminate the sources of the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Is it possible to do without it and manage everything in-house? Maybe yes.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But absolutely any company eventually reaches a level when it seems everything is perfectly functioning but still somewhere there are flaws hidden deeply in the analytics depths. It is these shortcomings that form unnecessary costs, employee overtime, loss of margin as a result. All this can be avoided by regularly auditing the business processes of the enterprise and making a set of performance indicators for each department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each company varies in its frequency of the audit. For some of them it is important to get in touch with experts at least once every six months, for others &#8211; once a year. It all depends on the company\u2019s size and goals. If the company is in the active restructuring phase, creating new business processes and optimization of its activities, it is better to conduct an audit every 3-6 months. Such frequency is due to the importance of controlling the restructuring effectiveness to better notice potholes, prevent possible mistakes, also save time and money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Particularly stable companies that have been on the market for a long time and know their goals for the year may easily get in touch with experts only once a year for validating the quality of business functioning, taking into account all performance indicators and consulting on existing activities optimization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any optimization is an economy and economy is an additional profit for the entire company. For example, well-functioning logistics may help to save up to 10% of a company&#8217;s net profit. It is difficult to imagine a sufficient number of orders that need to be managed by a large company to earn an additional 10% of net profit. Therefore, insignificant spending on audit and consulting may cause much more benefits than it seems at first.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Advantages of ordering consulting and audit by Kyiv Logistics School<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyiv Logistics School has merged the best experts in various fields of logistics, experts of great experience in their working field. And most importantly &#8211; people who are ready to share their knowledge and experience, help Ukrainian businesses in developing, reaching new results, expanding sizes, increasing income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The school currently employs over 200 experts working around the world in various business areas. Dozens of experts gained education abroad as well as a set of international certificates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The school is the only official representative of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) in Ukraine. Cooperating with Logistics School companies gets highly qualified consulting and knowledge shared by coaches while joint projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each consulting is some kind of training and experience exchange. It is necessary to regularly find out ways of achieving the targets and looking for means to achieve them daily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyiv Logistics School is a reliable partner in the audit and consulting of companies because only its experts will not look down on you but will help to solve existing issues, train your staff and create a development map for the customer company.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>\u00a0Working phases<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each project starts with a short meeting for getting acquainted where experts ask important questions regarding the company\u2019s activities, ask about their features of business processes and their existing goals to be achieved during the project implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beginning the cooperation experts of Kyiv Logistics School sign an NDA agreement to gain access to the company&#8217;s data for conducting an initial mini-audit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A mini-audit consists of several phases: requesting company\u2019s data, communicating with the company\u2019s employees, visiting an object (for example, a warehouse or manufacturing house), primary data analysis, providing a small report of carried research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, Kyiv Logistics School gives a commercial strategy based on the carried for the project research and signs an agreement with the customer company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having signed the contract a team of analysts analyzes all the data according to different assessment criteria, compiles a metrics catalog for your company individually and makes an operational analysis divided into levels of immersion and complexity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to such analytics, experts prepare an interim project report provided with an essential number of business optimization recommendations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next phase means the integration of optimization in the company. The company can conduct this phase on its own with the use of the current validation of the research results by the School\u2019s experts. There is also intensive cooperation which means the School&#8217;s expert monitors an entire optimization period becoming an integral part of the team for improving the company&#8217;s operational effectiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having completed the project an experts\u2019 team checks the results and makes a report on the carried research. As a result, the customer company can fix its current indicators and conduct optimization on its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Consulting and auditing price<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The price of Kyiv Logistics School services is very transparent and simple. It is always based on following the required number of hours per project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts assess the status of business processes and create an important tasks list for completing during the project. They calculate the number of hours required for the project implementation and formulate a commercial strategy on this basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It should be realized that the expert has to provide statistical data on various business processes of the company and the number of hours required for their standardization and processing will depend on the quality, accordance and accuracy of this data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyiv Logistics School is one of the best logistic audits and consulting centers in Ukraine since it consolidated real experts but also remains within the marketplace concerning the price of provided services.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Reports on the conducted consulting and auditing<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After finishing each project an experts\u2019 team formulates a report and a presentation on the conducted research with plenty of additional recommendations for independent subsequent business optimization. Creating a list of recommendations experts must calculate the price of each optimization and how its integration will affect the company\u2019s development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After providing the customer company with a detailed report experts present the project results showing examples of operational indicators sets before and after having finished the project, changes of the business efficiency, which needs to be additionally implemented, the main issue &#8211; how.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consulting by Kyiv Logistics School &nbsp; Eventually, any business has a crisis of ideas or a procrastination period. 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