This presentation will help you drastically improve your knowledge and skills in improving analyzing business issues, especially during consulting projects. It is designed for people who want to become management consultants, business analysts or have to run and optimize sales and marketing, operations on daily bases. In this presentation you will learn 3 things
1. How to understand main challenges in business analyses in Excel
2. How to use Excel, to find improvements in sales, operations and the business model.
3. Where to look for savings and improvements, how to calculate potential savings in Excel and implement them
The presentation is based on my 14 years of experience as a consultant in top consulting companies and as a Board Member responsible for strategy, improvement and turn-arounds in biggest companies from Retail, FMCG, SMG, B2B and services sector that I worked for.
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During consulting projects you will have to analyze, fast and
efficiently many things in Excel. In this presentation I will show
you a series of real life analyses.
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In this presentation I will go through following type of analyses
Sales analyses
Business modeling in
Excel
Operational Analysis
Market estimation
analyses
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Let’s start with sales analyses
Sales analyses
Business modeling in
Excel
Operational Analysis
Market estimation
analyses
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Does it make sense to introduce new
services or products
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You have to remember that when you introduce a new product or
service it may have benefits but it can also cause problems
It can create new reasons to
visit the place
It can increase frequency
New product can attract new
customers
New product can disturb the
delivery of basic product
It can require additional assets
or training
It can repel current customer
base from coming
It can increase margins
May be not compatible with
your concept
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Imagine that you are analyzing a salad fast food that has just introduced 2
new products and you want to check whether it makes sense
100 location in Easter
Europe
Fast food for salads
They have just introduced
coffee and soups to the
menu
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Before we go to the case a few words why it makes sense to
get do away with some customers
Focus on profitable customers
Get rid off problematic
customers
Get rid off dedicated
solutions
Create space for new
customers
Prepare for recession
Scale down the business
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Let’s imagine that you are advising a firm providing analytical services
to other companies
200 customers in 6
countries
500 business analysts and
data scientists
Find out which customer
you have to remove
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As a reminder you are advising a firm providing analytical services to
other companies
200 customers in 6
countries
500 business analysts and
data scientists
Find out which customer
you have to remove
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When you look at the data you can see that some customer
have much lower margin
Monthly hours sold
In thousands of hours
20
10 5 3
10
20
5 1 2 4
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10
10 10 15 20
5 10 5 10 10 10
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10
Average margin per hour
In USD per hour
25% 33%
50% 50%
13%
50% 50%
25% 29% 25%
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10
% Margin
In %
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780
54
834
Current Margin Customer portfolio optimization Target Margin
If we remove the Group 5 and replace them with customers that generate
higher margins we can boost our margin by USD 54 K
Potential of increasing monthly margin
In thousands of USD
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Let’s have a look at the sales force efficiency in Poland of a cosmetics
producers
20 sales rep in Poland
A sales rep visits all
customers in his region
You want to improve
efficiency
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Before we go to the Excel let’s talk about what we have to
know to judge the efficiency
What is the full cost per 1 sales
rep?
What value creates a specific
type of customer?
Is it worth to visit a customer?
How often should I visit specific
type of customers?
How I can improve efficiency of
the sales rep?
What can I standardize
automate?
What I can outsource to
cheaper provider?
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Let’s have a look at the sales force efficiency in Poland of a cosmetics
producers
20 sales rep in Poland
A sales rep visits all
customers in his region
You want to improve
efficiency
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20,195
30,124 31,210
Current Margin Maximazation without outsourcing and
reduction of headcount
Margin Maximazation with outsourcing and reduction of
headcount
When we look at the data we can see that there are regions where we
are really weak. In those regions there is a big potential for
improvement
Total net margin generated
In thousands of USD
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There are 3 groups of solutions that will help you improve the efficiency
of your sales team
Focus on what creates value
Improve efficiency of daily
work
Outsource / Specialize
Calculate the net margin per type of customer
Check the return on a visit and decide how often
it should be made
Concentrate on those customer for which the
net margin per visit is the highest
For other create more self-service solutions
Rearrange the regions to minimize the travelling
Implement remote solutions to reduce the need
to travel
Create a standard of the visit to maximize the
impact
Go through the tasks that should be performed
during the visit and check whether they make
sense and create value
Create standards and modules
Create software to automate part of the process
Plan the trips to maximize the usage of their time
Standardize fleet, phone, software and others
Pick the optimal legal solution of cooperating
with sales rep to optimize the cost of labor
Outsource what you can to local suppliers i.e.
merchandising
Create support teams for the sales rep that can
do part of his job in a cheaper manner and
higher quality at the same time
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How to find the white spaces untouched
by your brand – Introduction
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Let’s have a cosmetics producer and see where is the potential for
development
You are a market leader
in Poland
You have entered 5
years ago Romania
You want to find white
spaces in Poland
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How to find the white spaces untouched
by your brand – Solution
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Let’s have a cosmetics producer and see where is the potential for
development
You are a market leader
in Poland
You have entered 5
years ago Romania
You want to find white
spaces in Poland
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0.2 0.4
0.9
1.3 1.4
2.0
3.2
7.0
6.6
4.8
1.2 1.0 0.8
2.1
2.5
1.0
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15 R16
When we look at the data we can see that there are regions where we
are really weak. In those regions there is a big potential for
improvement Average and target for
regions with smaller
sales per capita
Sales per person - Currently
In USD per Capita
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1% 3%
6%
10% 10%
17%
27%
58%
55%
40%
12%
21%
8%
30%
25%
10%
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 R9 R10 R11 R12 R13 R14 R15 R16
When we look at the data we can see that there are regions where we
are really weak. In those regions there is a big potential
Average and target for
regions with smaller
share
Share in local market - Currently
In %
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14,544
11,283
7,099
5,301
4,439
1,609 1,550 1,211 1,067 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
48,104
R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R13 R11 R6 R16 R7 R8 R9 R10 R12 R14 R15 Total
Using the data in Excel we can estimate the potential increase in sales
by regions
Potential of increasing sales
In thousands of USD
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Let’s start move to business modeling in Excel
Sales analyses
Business modeling in
Excel
Operational Analysis
Market estimation
analyses
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Let’s start move to business modeling in Excel
Sales analyses
Business modeling in
Excel
Operational Analysis
Market estimation
analyses
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Let’s have a look at plywood producer that has 2 factories and is
considering where to build the third one
2 plants
3 potential locations for
the 3rd plant
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There are things you should consider when choosing the
location for you factory
Sufficient amount of raw materials /
suppliers in the catchment area
Sufficient number of customers in the
catchment area
Cost of transportation of raw materials to
the factory
Cost of transportation of finished goods to
customers
Local labor market – sufficient amount of
workers and wages
Cost of electricity
Support from local government
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Car Industry – Planning the flow
of finished goods – Introduction
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Let’s have a look at car producer that is wandering which plant should
supply to which country
4 plants
4 countries
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Let’s start move to business modeling in Excel
Sales analyses
Business modeling in
Excel
Operational Analysis
Market estimation
analyses
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