Business Effectiveness teams at KPMG in Greece focus on fundamental business issues - managing risk, increasing revenues and controlling costs - which all organizations, in all industries, should address in order to flourish. We help companies identify risks and optimize operations that are used to support their strategic business objectives and financial goals.

Organizations have a range of options to help them manage and improve performance, including process and control design, shared services models and outsourcing. Our firms’ Business Effectiveness professionals seek to empower clients to make better business decisions — decisions that are at the heart of successful business transformation and change management efforts.

Business Effectiveness teams serve our clients in many industries. Our professionals bring extensive experience and work collaboratively with our clients’ teams, assisting them with:

• Rapid Value Procurement
• Business Integration
• Operational Improvement
• Business Performance Management and Business Intelligence

Rapid Value Procurement

Procurement functions can dramatically affect supply chain and operations effectiveness and efficiency. KPMG helps clients focus improvement in several key areas, including strategic sourcing, consolidation of the supply base, improved contract management, improved inventory management through purchase execution & procurement process effectiveness.

Business Integration

KPMG teams assist clients in mergers of business organizations (called post merger integration), shortly after a deal is finalized or years after many mergers have been executed. These types of transformational projects often involve the adoption of new processes and controls, the implementation of new business models, or organizational restructuring.

Operational Improvement

To support client management in their creation of a robust and evidenced business plan to drive sustainable improvements in operating performance. Our work will usually involve challenging assumptions and running workshops and advising management on:

• Articulating and more fully developing their strategy and strategic initiatives,
• Business plan design and structuring,
• Financial analysis and presentation of key KPIs,
• Modeling and sensitivity analysis, to identify the scale of the opportunity,
• Bringing together deep functional and industry expertise, and
• Creating a program to drive and deliver the benefits identified.

Business Performance Management and Business Intelligence

KPMG’s Business Performance Methodology (BPM) enables us to analyze the way our clients conduct and drive business performance by developing an approach to help clients understand their business drivers through the development of KPIs, streamlining the Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting processes by embedding them in an efficient, effective and sustainable performance management process, and streamlining management reporting framework as part of Management Information systems.