Indirect Cost Toolkit

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Standardize Indirect Cost: actively involved in aspects of Technology Transfer and Scale Up of oligonucleotide Manufacturing Processes delivered from manufacturing Technical Services into manufacturing.

More Uses of the Indirect Cost Toolkit:

  • Supervise Indirect Cost: proactively engage with the direct and inDirect Sales teams to coordinate, communicate, and optimize the impact of marketing activities.

  • Identify areas user errors are likely to occur in the indirect vendor creation and organization master set up process and help inform on design and training.

  • Ensure you do cument; build, develop, and manage team of direct and indirect Category Managers engaged in End To End Strategic Sourcing activities, Cost Savings across the enterprise, and negotiation strategies.

  • Standardize Indirect Cost: proactively engage with the direct and inDirect Sales teams to coordinate, communicate, and optimize the impact of marketing activities.

  • Formulate Indirect Cost: proactively engage with the direct and inDirect Sales teams to coordinate, communicate, and optimize the impact of marketing activities.

  • Supervise Indirect Cost: direct or indirect involvement in the development and/or adoption of policies, Best Practices and guidelines for portal technologies.

  • Contribute to you Performance Management Process for all indirect functional reports and contribute feedback to any project related resources.

  • Be accountable for developing and executing systems to support the implementation and ongoing administration of scorecards for direct material, research and indirect Suppliers.

  • Ensure you oversee; build, develop, and manage team of direct and indirect Category Managers engaged in End To End Strategic Sourcing activities, Cost Savings across the enterprise, and negotiation strategies.

  • Oversee Indirect Cost: monitor development and performance of indirect reports by reviewing progress against goals through direct reports and periodic meetings to develop or maintain relationships.

  • Manage indirect or possibly direct reporting resources to clear expectations and delivery across the capabilities outlined here.

  • Have indirect influence beyond functional boundaries, as with product on technical feasibility and roadmap, or with Test Engineering on tooling and execution needs.

  • Provide expert guidance to Project Managers and Planners regarding the development of direct and indirect resource needs and compile forecasts.

  • Formulate Indirect Cost: monitor development and performance of indirect reports by reviewing progress against goals through direct reports and periodic meetings to develop or maintain relationships.

  • Manage work with the marketing department and channel organization to develop marketing programs and campaigns that support your inDirect Selling efforts through your resellers, technology partnerships and MSSPs.

  • Provide expert integrated Business Planning and Stakeholder Management for all indirect items and services.

  • Solidify in depth dialogues, conversations and explanations with customers, direct and indirect reports and outside vendors can be of a sensitive and/or highly confidential nature.

  • Steer Indirect Cost: effectively promote Business Growth through indirect management of extended teams, affording a balanced selling effort at multiple customer levels of the strategic accounts.

  • Manage Indirect Cost: indirect leadership and Communication Skills to lead cross functional optimization and collaboration across multi cultural teams and external partners.

  • Systematize Indirect Cost: indirect report (titles) varies by client.

  • Ensure your organization complies; focuses on revenue producing activity and maximizes selling time on direct and inDirect Sales efforts and local marketing.

  • Direct Indirect Cost: proactively engage with the direct and inDirect Sales teams to coordinate, communicate, and optimize the impact of marketing activities.

  • Manage the communications ecosystems, providing guidance, coaching, and feedback to indirect team members located in business segments as Finance (investor relations) Compliance (government relations), Marketing (lines of business) and People and Culture (employee communication).

  • Identify Indirect Cost: indirect leadership and Communication Skills to lead cross functional optimization and collaboration across multi cultural teams and external partners.

  • Maintain ERP System for managing spare parts inventory and provide weekly reporting on indirect material purchases and inventory levels.

  • Be certain that your corporation complies; focuses on revenue producing activity and maximizes selling time on direct and inDirect Sales efforts and local marketing.

  • Lead and manage it Supply Chain team to deliver site operational objectives and provide outstanding Supply Chain Service Levels on quality and delivery whilst achieving lowest total cost of acquisition for direct material, indirect Goods And Services, and logistics.

  • Initiate Indirect Cost: hrm direct activities of direct and indirect reports, general human Resource Management functions, and staffing.

  • Contribute to the Sales Enablement strategy and provide Thought Leadership around the management of an indirect Sales Channel.

  • Ensure quality use of Performance Management Processes with direct and indirect reports.

  • Implement the Document Management strategies and solutions, developed in partnership with the client, which ensure the delivery of a cost effective product or communication technique, that is appropriate for the clients Business Requirements.

  • Ensure you relay; lead and support the Commercial Team in developing and maintaining price sheets for all products and segments and key customers / distributors.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Indirect Cost Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Indirect Cost related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Indirect Cost specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Indirect Cost Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Indirect Cost improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. How do you improve your likelihood of success?

  2. What is the output?

  3. What are the core elements of the Indirect Cost business case?

  4. How do you catch Indirect Cost definition inconsistencies?

  5. How do you keep records, of what?

  6. Do you have the right capabilities and capacities?

  7. How do you do Risk Analysis of rare, cascading, catastrophic events?

  8. How do you identify specific Indirect Cost investment opportunities and emerging trends?

  9. How does your organization define, manage, and improve its Indirect Cost processes?

  10. What relevant entities could be measured?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Indirect Cost book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Indirect Cost self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Indirect Cost Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Indirect Cost areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Indirect Cost Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Indirect Cost projects with the 62 implementation resources:

  • 62 step-by-step Indirect Cost Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Indirect Cost project requirements and success criteria:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Indirect Cost project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Indirect Cost Project Team have enough people to execute the Indirect Cost Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Indirect Cost Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Indirect Cost Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Indirect Cost project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Indirect Cost project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Indirect Cost project with this in-depth Indirect Cost Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Indirect Cost projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Indirect Cost and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Indirect Cost investments work better.

This Indirect Cost All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.