Process Improvement (PI)

Does the current environment have you looking for immediate ways to increase cash flow, lower costs, improve productivity, and manage risks? The Johnsson Group can help you develop and implement process improvement strategies that provide real and immediate cost savings, increased productivity and improved cash flow. And, we can manage your entire initiative or start where others have left off. Consider us to help improve performance, drive results and achieve a real return on your investment.

Our Process Improvement services include:

• Finance Transformation and Organizational Assessment
• Shared Services and Outsourcing
• Planning and Implementation
• Performance Monitoring
• National/Regional/Global
• End-to-End Process Optimization
  • Procure-to-Pay (PTP)
  • Material-to-Inventory (MTI)
  • Sell-to-Customer (STC)
  • Order-to-Cash (OTC)
  • Hire-to-Retire (HTR)
  • Record-to-Report (RTR)
  • Governance and Performance Metrics
• ERP Process Design and Optimization
• Enterprise Risk Planning and Management
• Corporate Crisis Planning and Management
  • Business Continuity Planning
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
• Accounting Policy and Procedures
• IFRS Readiness

Finance Transformation and Organizational Assessment

As the lines between an organization's functional departments become more transparent, the role of the finance and accounting departments is evolving from "bean counter" to business partner. To facilitate your finance department's evolution, The Johnsson Group has developed a Finance Leadership Scale assessment tool, designed to rank your finance department and provide recommendations for process and organization improvement.

Yesterday's close process was all about speed. Today, your close process demands both speed and quality. With an increased emphasis on internal controls, as well as accelerated reporting requirements, many companies are taking a more comprehensive look at the close process. The Johnsson Group offers a proven approach and methodologies to evaluate, and optimize, your close process - integrating data quality, technology and organizational alignment activities.

Shared Services and Outsourcing

Are you looking to centralize and streamline your back office functions? Or are you considering an outsourcing initiative in your organization? The Johnsson Group has "hands on" expertise in the assessment, evaluation and implementation of these services, including business case development, location rationalization, organization and process design and project implementation.
Are your existing Service Level Agreements (SLA's) providing an effective governance structure to measure and improve performance within your shared service organization? Are the capabilities of your shared service organization aligned effectively with the business strategy of your organization? The Johnsson Group consultants can create a detailed governance program for your organization or update your existing agreements.

End-to-End Process Optimization

Cash is still king. One way to ensure that your cash flows are optimized is through the timely and efficient processing of transactions that impact working capital. As part of our Process Improvement practice, The Johnsson Group can help you assess your processes and technology to improve, and optimize, end to end performance. Let us show you how our value-added approach to end-to-end process improvement can boost cash flow by optimizing your Procurement, Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing, Transportation and Logistics, and Human Resource processes.

As part of our process optimization initiative, The Johnsson Group consultants can provide your organization with a comprehensive governance model that will align departmental goals and objectives with company goals and objectives, creating one unified end-to-end process. Our consultants utilize an approach to governance that enables the design and implementation of a metrics based management system to achieve the sustainability of desired performance within your organization.

ERP Process Design and Optimization

Whether you are embarking on an initial Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system installation, or an upgrade to your existing system, organizations often require external integration assistance to perform business requirements data collection, functional design, and user testing/training. The Johnsson Group consultancy can provide those services, as well as project management and change management capabilities.

Enterprise Risk Planning and Management

Does your organization effectively balance risks with rewards? Does your organization have a solid understanding of the role management must play in a solid framework of enterprise risk management? Our consultants will examine and assess the current state of your organization's potential risks and create a plan for implementation within your organization.

Corporate Crisis Planning and Management

How well is your organization prepared in the event of a natural disaster? Do your employees know how to react efficiently in the event of a power outage or network failure? The Johnsson Group consultants can work with your organization to document a detailed business continuity or disaster recovery plan and lead a workshop within your organization to ensure your team can effectively respond in an emergency. Our consultants can provide training for your staff in crisis management, which may minimize the financial risk to your organization in the event of a disaster.

Accounting Policy and Procedures

Are your Accounting Policies and Procedures up to date and documented? Our consultants can assess the current state of your Accounting Policies and Procedures documentation; then create a project plan to efficiently develop the documentation and/or update your Accounting Policies and Procedures.

IFRS Readiness

No longer a matter of “If” but “When”. Have you performed an impact readiness assessment? Have you started down the road toward implementation? Our consultants can assess the impact IFRS will have on your processes, controls and systems to ensure you make the right investments now for the conversion to IFRS and to identify potential organizational process and decision making modifications. In addition, The Johnsson Group’s expertise in project management and change management can prepare you for the upcoming implications on time and on budget.