1. We believe in simultaneous improvement of the top and the bottom line
Successful business must be able to simultaneously work on improving both the top and the bottom line. Simmtex helps clients in both domains and enables maximisation of the profit margin through different workstreams.
Exhibit 1: Profit maximisation depends on two factors: revenue and cost
2. People are the most valuable asset as they enable all other elements of business success
We look at the client business as a combination of five core interconnected elements:
- Innovation
- Production
- People - Stakeholders
- Market intelligence
- Sales
Businesses that can successfully manage all 5 elements are set on a path of success. The first two elements represent the “business engine”, and the fourth and the fifth represent the “business intelligence”. Both are connected with each other by people (stakeholders) who are the biggest and most important asset of any enterprise.
Exhibit 2: Five interconnected core business elements
3. Our experience covers the entire Customer Value Chain: Manufacturing Enterprise Model
Simmtex can maximise the impact on the client business because we always take a holistic view across all elements of the client value chain. Improvements are possible in each element in isolation, but the synergy effect comes from understanding of how supply chain, logistics, manufacturing (assembly) and sales & marketing couple together in delivering the business success. Simmtex developed its partner network carefully by choosing their expertise that enables Simmtex to deliver synergy solutions. Simmtex can has eight distinctive areas of expertise represented in its Manufacturing Enterprise Model:
- Supply Chain
- Logistics & Inventory
- Product Innovation & Product Life Cycle Management
- Manufacturing and Assembly
- Project Execution Model
- Cost, Quality and Lead Time
- Customers and Markets: Product Launch, Sales and Business Development
- Team Building: Leadership, Organisational Development & Performance
In addition to that, Simmtex can cover additional aspects of the business improvement such as:
- Carbon Management (Reporting and Decarbonisation) – “CBAM Tracker”
- Financial Analysis and Reporting – Dr. Ivana Raonic
- Digitalisation, Data Management & Reporting Automation (IT solutions) – “Riskpoint” through active collaboration with its business partners and partner companies.
Exhibit 3: Manufacturing Enterprise Model - interlinked elements of the Customer Value Chain
4. “Wheel of Business Success” is an enabler of continuous business improvement
The “Whell of Business Success” is a unique empirically developed consulting model aimed at addressing the 4 phases of a successful business improvement cycle:
- Ideation – enables exploration of new ideas that initiate improvement
- Planning – success must be planned in advance
- Execution – enables success realisation: execute as planned
- Improvement – enhances future opportunities (continuous improvement mindset)
The fifth and complementary pillar is the Team Building which enables Organisational and Leadership development supportive of all four core phases of the business cycle.
Exhibit 4: “Wheel of Business Success”: Spin to Win
Simmtex embedded the following beliefs and values to its consulting model:
- Anchoring lean and kaizen culture top down is a prerequisite for a
continuous improvement
- Capability to coach the client organisation on all levels best leadership practises based on the core values of Lean and Kaizen
- See through the client operating model with multiple lenses and achieve the following benefits
simultaneously:
- Enhancement of sales and new business development
- Continuous reduction of cost in all parts of the business
- Carbon neutral footprint and decarbonisation strategies
- Productivity gain
- Increase in the innovation capacity
Matrix of Business Success: Fine-Tune Your Business Model by Delivering Improvements Across the Key Elements of the Customer Value Chain: Pillars of Business Success
Exhibit 5: Key pillars of client business success stretch across all business functions
Simmtex is focused on delivering its value to the clients by connecting any improvements to the financial performance of the company as we strongly believe that this is the only way to deliver the real value and convince the stakeholders in pursuing an engagement with us.
5. Carbon Neutrality is the driver of future market competitiveness
Simmtex is actively helping their clients to increase the awareness and measure its exposure to climate related changes and to turn the related risks into advantages. Senior management should be able (with our help) to measure the impact of carbon emissions, whether carbon intensity boosts or abates the revenue. Such a calculation should be shared with investors in their financial reports (annual, quarterly). Simmtex can help to determine their financial exposure in terms of the carbon intensity and take necessary steps to cover the short-term positions or monetize carbon surplus.
Simmtex can enhance its value add by creating the opportunities for the secondary revenue streams:
- By achieving carbon neutrality, the client could start trading carbon credits and will reduce its liability
- By finding the secondary markets, the client can turn its wastes into commodities
- By finding sources of recycled raw material the client can lower the raw material costs and offset its carbon footprint
- By finding sources of recycled raw material the client can increase its green image and lower the raw material costs and offset its carbon footprint
Simmtex has partnered with its sister company CBAM Tracker in providing support in reporting the carbon footprint as per the EU CBAM standard.