PROVE THE CASH
See the Hidden Cost. Remove the Loss. Verify the Economic Value.
PRODUCT PROMISE
Most organizations know:
- purchase price
- supplier price
- budget
- unit cost.
But they often do not know:
WHAT THE COMPLETE SYSTEM REALLY COSTS.
RapidKnowHow® TOTAL TCO SYSTEM DELIVERED™ makes the hidden economic cost visible and converts improvement into measurable FCF and ROCE.
SEE COST → FIND LOSS → REDESIGN → PROVE CASH
THE PROBLEM
A low purchase price can still create a high total cost.
Hidden cost appears through:
- labor
- energy
- downtime
- maintenance
- logistics
- inventory
- working capital
- emergency deliveries
- quality losses
- waste
- administration
- low utilization
- service failures
- risk.
The result:
THE BUSINESS OPTIMIZES PRICE WHILE LOSING CASH ELSEWHERE.
THE RAPIDKNOWHOW® SOLUTION
SEE COST
Establish the complete economic baseline.
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FIND LOSS
Identify the largest avoidable losses.
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PRIORITIZE
Rank the highest-value opportunities.
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ONE DECISION
Select the improvement with the strongest business case.
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REDESIGN
Change the system.
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PROVE CASH
Measure before versus after.
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STANDARDIZE
Preserve what works.
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LICENSE
Repeat and compound the system.
WHAT YOU GET
1. TOTAL TCO BASELINE™
Make visible the complete economic cost.
2. HIDDEN LOSS MAP™
Identify where cash is being destroyed.
3. VALUE PRIORITY RANKING™
Rank opportunities by:
- cash impact
- implementation time
- risk
- ease of execution.
4. ONE DECISION™
Select the highest-value practical move.
5. TOP 3 ACTIONS™
Focus execution.
6. TCO VALUE SCOREBOARD™
Measure:
- TCO
- FCF
- working capital
- productivity
- downtime
- asset utilization
- ROCE.
7. VERIFIED VALUE CASE™
Document the result.
ACTION GUIDE
STEP 1 — SELECT ONE SYSTEM
Start with one:
- asset
- equipment system
- container system
- pallet system
- supply chain
- service process
- customer operation
- procurement category.
Do not start with everything.
Start where the pain is highest.
STEP 2 — BUILD THE CURRENT TCO BASELINE
Calculate:
PURCHASE / CONTRACT COST
What do we pay directly?
OPERATING COST
Labor, energy, consumables.
LOGISTICS COST
Transport, storage, handling.
INVENTORY COST
Working capital, space, losses.
DOWNTIME COST
Lost production or service.
MAINTENANCE COST
Planned and unplanned work.
QUALITY / LOSS COST
Waste, damage, rework, failure.
ADMINISTRATION COST
Planning, ordering, control.
RISK COST
Emergency work, service failure, dependency.
STEP 3 — FIND THE TOP LOSSES
Rank the losses.
Use:
VALUE LOST × FREQUENCY × EASE OF IMPROVEMENT
Select the highest-value problem.
STEP 4 — MAKE ONE DECISION
Example:
“We will redesign replenishment because stockouts and emergency deliveries create the largest avoidable economic loss.”
STEP 5 — TAKE THE TOP 3 ACTIONS
ACTION 1 — REMOVE THE ROOT CAUSE
Do not treat the symptom.
ACTION 2 — REDESIGN THE FLOW
Change process, asset, data, responsibility or automation.
ACTION 3 — MEASURE BEFORE / AFTER
Prove the value.
STEP 6 — CALCULATE THE VALUE
Measure:
COST REMOVED
€ saved.
WORKING CAPITAL RELEASED
€ cash freed.
DOWNTIME AVOIDED
€ value protected.
PRODUCTIVITY
Hours or capacity gained.
FCF IMPACT
€ cash improvement.
ROCE
Return on capital improvement.
STEP 7 — VERIFY
The economic proof must show:
BEFORE → ACTION → AFTER → € RESULT
Do not claim value before it is verified.
30-DAY RESULT
Within 30 days:
- TCO baseline established
- hidden losses ranked
- one priority selected
- three actions launched
- economic scoreboard running.
90-DAY RESULT
Within 90 days:
ONE TCO PROBLEM → ONE SYSTEM CHANGE → ONE VERIFIED CASH RESULT
BEST FOR
- Industrial gases
- Manufacturing
- Equipment
- Containers
- Pallets
- Fleets
- Energy systems
- Logistics
- Procurement
- Asset-intensive businesses
- Industrial services.
BUYER
CEO
CFO
COO
Procurement Director
Operations Director
Business Unit Leader
Owner
CUSTOMER GETS
LOWER TCO → MORE CASH → HIGHER FCF → HIGHER ROCE
GIVE + GET™
CLIENT GETS
Verified economic value.
RAPIDKNOWHOW® GETS
Fair value for:
- proprietary IP
- diagnosis
- implementation
- verification
- licensing.
Commercial terms are agreed case by case.
LICENSE PATH
Once proven, TOTAL TCO SYSTEM DELIVERED™ can become the operating standard across:
- assets
- sites
- suppliers
- customers
- business units
- countries.
ONE DECISION
STOP BUYING ON PRICE.
START MANAGING TOTAL ECONOMIC VALUE.
CALL TO ACTION
START MY TCO CASH CASE
Bring:
ONE asset
ONE process
ONE cost problem.
Build:
ONE baseline
ONE decision
TOP 3 actions
ONE verified € result.
RapidKnowHow® TOTAL TCO SYSTEM DELIVERED™
PROVE THE CASH.
RapidKnowHow® — THE DECISION COMPANY™