Business analysis


What are the basics for planning analysis?

complete information, industry knowledge, country knowledge, market knowledge, competitor knowledge, customer knowledge


Can planning & analysis find out critical success factors and drivers?

Yes


Is the purpose of planning & analysis to identify trend?

Yes


What are an orders of importance of competitors?

In term of turnover and profitability


How to decide reward system with so many uncontrolled factors?

With adjustment


How to ensure budget figures are accurate?

compare with last year, current month, source of change, ratio analysis


How to ensure budget profit figures are close to the facts?

compare budget figures with those of top ten customers


How to ensure budget figures are based on the most reliable and current information?

compared with customer budget


Why budget figures is important?

explore business opportunity and risk


Why is budget accuracy difficult?

information not available, too much unaudited information


Does Budget facilitates alerts?

Yes


Budget facilitates advance planning?

Yes


Budget can identify critical uncontrollable factors?

Yes


What will be the result of inaccurate budget

wrong human resource planning, over commitment, idle costs


What are the most common type of business analysis?

  • Revenue management
  • Investment/valuation on new opportunity
  • Total cost analysis of trucking department, truck and driver
  • Cost reduction
  • Sourcing
  • Consolidation
  • Financial option, sourcing, lease or purchase, truck type, serial number  and size
  • Competitor analysis
  • Source of change analysis
  • Efficiency
  • Idle capacity
  • Size of truck
  • Driver efficiency vs driver information
  • Transport efficiency vs driver information

What are business analysis on sourcing?

  • Insourcing or outsourcing
  • Local, country source or foreign source
  • Single source or dual source
  • Disintermediation
  • Combine purchasing power of vendor
  • Vendor selection

What are business analysis on organization and structure?

  • Location
  • Merger Acquisition, horizontal and vertical
  • Partnership
  • Disintermediation