Service area
Zero-based budgeting.
We have rebuilt budgets around business needs and strategic value.
Our experience
How clients have engaged us.
- Established a cost baseline and assigned accountable budget owners.
- Challenged activities, service levels and spending from a zero base.
- Redesigned demand, processes and sourcing to support the required outcomes.
- Embedded approved choices in budgets, operating routines and benefit tracking.
Rebuild the cost base.
- Establish the activities and service levels the business needs before allocating spend.
- Compare demand, process, sourcing and organization options for each cost package.
- Separate recurring benefits from change costs and sustaining investment.
Make decisions stick.
- Cost packages with explicit assumptions, owners and approval responsibilities.
- An agreed budget linked to operating changes and implementation milestones.
- Finance-led reviews of realized benefits, service performance and emerging cost pressures.
Selected client work.
Delivered by Scipio & Partners Executive Advisors.
Related services.
Organization design
We have designed organizational structures, roles and decision rights around business needs.
Procurement strategy
We have defined procurement priorities, category strategies and supplier governance.
Planning, reporting & analytics
We have aligned planning, forecasting and reporting around business performance drivers.
