In the process of development, the factory will always encounter development bottlenecks in a certain period of time. It feels that the cost of operation has been rising, but it is difficult to find the "location" of the cost. We call it "hidden cost".
This is like a disease implied by the living body, which cannot be cured for a long time and lingers, which makes the operators quite a headache. If these "hidden costs" can be found, it is undoubtedly like finding "pathogens", then the next step of "prescribing the right medicine" must be the time to take off again.
If you can sum up the various "hidden costs" that often exist in enterprises, enterprises can conduct self-inspection by comparison. Today, are you still "invisible"?
1. Meeting costs
A meeting is a collective activity for enterprises to solve problems and issue instructions, but it is also a high-cost business activity. Because this event is often a group activity involving many leaders, every minute means the number of minutes of the total number of participants, and the managers of many companies have not mastered the skills of meetings, and there are "unprepared before the meeting, and in the meeting". No theme, no implementation after the meeting, no need to attend the meeting, no time control, and no limit to the speech.” Six non-phenomena. When paying salaries and summarizing income every month, the figures in the financial statements always become the miraculous "insomnia medicine" for the operators, but they don't know that a large part of this "medicine" is the meeting.
2. Purchase cost
Purchasing takes different forms in different companies, but it is an important part of the cost that affects business operations. We often only focus on the price and quantity of this cost, and it is difficult to see other factors besides this.
There was once a company that had a daily operating cost of 80,000 yuan when working on a new project. However, on the eve of the launch of the product, the purchasing department spent a week purchasing more than 100,000 yuan of packaging. Find suppliers with low prices to save procurement costs. The entire marketing team therefore waited an extra week to sign a contract with the client. And this phenomenon actually exists in many enterprises.
The blind pursuit of reducing the direct cost of procurement ignores the "hidden costs" that coexist at the same time. Of course, reducing the direct cost of procurement does not conflict with this article. Here, what we want to say is that the procurement department of the enterprise must comprehensively weigh various indicators from the perspective of overall operation in order to truly control the cost of procurement.
3. Communication costs
Communication is an important link in business operations. Many companies are doing a lot of system training and spiritual training, but most of them do not have "communication ability" training. In most companies, you will find that in the process of communication between colleagues, there will be serious distortions, or the words are not conveyed, or the answers are not answered, or people can't understand... This phenomenon, to say the least, makes many processes Become an ineffective process, or lose many important opportunities. If it is too big, it may bring hidden dangers to the enterprise. This is a typical cost increase due to poor communication.
4. Overtime cost
Many bosses always think that the "overtime" of employees who "forget about eating and sleeping" after get off work is a phenomenon of professionalism. As everyone knows, this may imply a high cost. There are three reasons:
First, the reason for working overtime is not necessarily because the work tasks are too heavy, but because the employees' work efficiency is low. Overtime work means low efficiency. If the objective work tasks are really heavy, then the company should replenish new personnel and positions in time to achieve real development and progress.
Second, working overtime consumes more energy and physical strength of employees and seriously overdraws the health of employees. In the long run, some important employees will not be able to exert their effectiveness for a long time, and there is a hidden danger of burdening the company.
Third, overtime employees are not necessarily "doing business properly". Some employees work overtime after work, use the company's resources, engage in their personal affairs, and receive overtime pay from the company at the same time. Many important losses and data loss of enterprises etc. all occur during off-duty hours, and overtime has become a dead end for enterprises to "shelt dirt and evil practices".
5. The cost of talent flow
Many companies are lacking in human resources management. They believe that talents are unlimited, and they become "iron camps", and employees naturally become "flowing soldiers".
It has to be said that the departure of an employee is a cost to the company, because the company has to bear the initial investment in training fees for this employee, the initial cost of recruiting new employees for this position, and whether the new employee is suitable for the position. risk, and the resignation of old employees may also lose important internal materials or information due to professionalism, and after resignation, they are likely to enter their competitors' companies.
Therefore, the loss of employees, especially old employees, will undoubtedly bring expenses several times higher than their income. After many small businesses have been in operation for many years, you find that they have always been such a small team, and except for the boss, no employee has stayed from the beginning of the business. I think this may be an important reason for its failure to develop.
