Bill Canady ranks cost cuts by dollar impact and says focus on the top two or three. Assign a named owner and deadline to each: Karen deactivates 947 SKUs by March 31. Skip the rest, they waste effort.
Rank it by dollars, contribution recovered plus capacity recovered, priced at your loaded rate. 2 top 3, 2 or 2, 2 or the top 3. That's your program. Everything else wastes. Go get those. They're big. It'll move the needle. Step 3, build an elimination plan with named owners and dates. A name, a date, a definition of done, not reduce SKU complexity. Boy, I see that all the time. Instead, 947 SKUs deactivated in the Item Master by March 31st, and the owner is Karen. We love Karen. Go get 'em.
