Cost Saving Programmes

Challenges

• Corporate real estate management has the task to optimise the real estate costs of the group short and mid-term.
• An intervention into the core business should not be carried out (no disturbance for core business)

Project approach

• Preparation of cost baseline
  • Access to group data
  • Recording of data as per web-based survey (upon request)
• Portfolio and performance assessment
  • Analysis of existing portfolio
  • Recording of service rendering all around the real estate
• Determination of optimisation focusses
  • First assessment of costs and portfolio
  • Definition of focal points (space, provision costs, service costs, organisation)
  • Examination of focus areas with the help of 54 single levers
• Determination of cost levers ready for implementation
  • Consideration of potential and implementation effort
  • Consideration of implementation risks and time per lever
  • Determination of realisable levers
• Deduction recommendations for action
  • Definition of single measures (responsibility, points in time, risk, implementation costs)
  • Preparation of implementation planning
• Communication of measures and measures
• Upon request: co-ordination and project steering regarding implementation of measures

Results

• Achievement of monetary quick wins
• Mid-term implementation of defined real estate potentials amounting to a minimum of 20% p.a.