Optimizing Your Free-Cash-Flow by Applying the RapidKnowHow BALANCER SYSTEM

RapidKnowHow® — THE BALANCER SYSTEM™
CREATE MORE CASH TOGETHER — AND ENSURE BOTH PARTIES BENEFIT.

The game shows how an industrial gas supplier and its manufacturing customer can combine their knowledge to improve total cash flow, then share the resulting value.

The rule of the game

Your mission is to achieve:

• At least €130,000 combined additional cash in year one.
• A positive year-one cash result for both supplier and customer.

Reducing the customer’s gas bill alone does not guarantee success: the supplier may lose income. You win by improving the joint operating result and agreeing how to share it.

All figures are illustrative, incremental, pre-tax cash estimates, not verified free cash flow.

Step 1 — Choose your perspective

Select Supplier, Customer, or Joint team.

The supplier contributes gas, application, technology and logistics knowledge. The customer contributes process, consumption, operating problems and cost information.

The role button changes your perspective and guidance. It does not change the calculation.

Step 2 — Select the improvements

You can select one, two or all three:

Improvement	Customer benefit	Supplier impact
Stop gas losses	Lower gas consumption and expenditure	Lower sales contribution from reduced volume
Replenish intelligently	Less inventory and better replenishment	More efficient deliveries and less inventory
Improve the process	Lower scrap and processing costs	Additional net contribution from application services

Each choice includes its assumed operating benefits, investment and any inventory cash release.

Step 3 — Set realistic execution

Move the year-one realization slider between 50% and 100%.

This represents how much of the annual operating benefit you achieve during the first year. At 50%, you receive half the annual benefit, while the game still charges the full investment and includes the full inventory release.

Step 4 — Agree the supplier’s service fee

Move the annual customer-to-supplier service fee slider.

This compensates the supplier for its contribution to the joint improvement.

The fee shares value; it does not create additional combined cash. Every euro paid by the customer becomes one euro received by the supplier. The game applies the realization percentage to this fee as well.

Step 5 — Read the result

The game displays customer cash, supplier cash and their combined total.

It gives one of three results:

• UNBALANCED: one party has zero or negative year-one cash.
• BOTH GAIN: both benefit, but combined cash remains below €130,000.
• SCENARIO PASS: both benefit and combined cash reaches at least €130,000.

A successful example

Select all three improvements, set realization to 100%, and agree an annual service fee of €50,000.

Year-one calculation	Customer	Supplier	Combined
Annual operating benefit before fee	€185,000	€25,000	€210,000
Service fee transferred	−€50,000	+€50,000	€0
One-time investment	−€80,000	−€40,000	−€120,000
One-time inventory cash release	+€30,000	+€20,000	+€50,000
Additional year-one cash	€85,000	€55,000	€140,000

Outcome: SCENARIO PASS. Both parties gain, and the joint target is exceeded by €10,000.

The €50,000 inventory release happens once. It must not be counted as recurring annual cash.

Step 6 — Turn the scenario into verified value

The game produces a proposed business case. To establish an actual result:

1. SHARE: agree a baseline using consumption, inventory, deliveries, costs and cash records.
2. ACT: assign owners, approve investments and the sharing agreement, and run a 90-day pilot.
3. PROVE: compare actual results with the baseline, adjusting for production volume and mix. Include actual costs and avoid counting the same benefit twice.

The commercial next step is Find the Cash Gap™ — €299, leading through WooCommerce checkout to the customer PDF Action Guide.

The final outcome

A successful game ends with one joint improvement decision, a positive cash case for each party, and a clear plan to verify it.

Scaling follows verified results—not the simulation alone.

ACTION CHECKLIST

☐ Select the improvements.
☐ Set a realistic realization percentage.
☐ Agree a fee that leaves both parties better off.
☐ Check the €130,000 combined target.
☐ Assign owners and establish the baseline.
☐ Run the pilot and verify actual cash.
☐ Fix the largest obstacle before scaling.

RapidKnowHow® · THE BALANCER SYSTEM™

Optimize Total Cash Flow
Industrial Gas Game

CREATE MORE CASH TOGETHER.

Balance supplier know-how with customer process knowledge. Select improvements, share the gains and build a case both parties can support.

Illustrative manufacturing-site case. All results are incremental, pre-tax cash estimates in euros, not verified FCF. No information is submitted or saved.