Improve liquidity to support your plans
If sales take too long to turn into cash, reviewing payment terms and collections management can help your business meet its commitments.
Business consulting
Turn your business
potential into
results.
EFO Designers develops and implements efficiency projects to improve operations, strengthen management and turn identified opportunities into measurable results.
Processes · Structure · Ways of working
Let’s talk about your businessExplore where we can helpBusiness challenges and opportunities
Create new opportunities for your business.
Growth opportunities may call for greater operating capacity, a stronger commercial response or new ways of working. Understanding what needs to change helps focus your efforts on what your business wants to achieve.
Serve more customers with better service
When orders take too much time or effort to fulfill, better coordination between invoicing and dispatch can help you meet demand more promptly.
Make better use of your investment in inventory
Overstock and stockouts may reveal opportunities to adjust purchasing and availability, reduce avoidable costs and support sales activity.
Turn decisions into the capacity to move forward
Connecting priorities, responsibilities and information more effectively helps coordinate work and respond to growth and transformation opportunities.
01 · Costs and margins
Retain more of the value your business creates.
We analyze costs and expenses in relation to the processes that generate them. We implement improvements to reduce avoidable resource consumption, rework and duplication, and strengthen resource control.
Commercial decisions also influence results: we examine how pricing, discounts and sales terms affect margins, and how purchasing, inventory and cancellations affect the value your business retains.
We aim to generate savings, reduce avoidable losses and improve margins. Sales growth is an opportunity that must be assessed alongside profitability and your ability to deliver on commitments.
Pricing and terms
Review commercial policies to protect margins.
Purchasing and inventory
Align purchasing and availability to reduce costs and losses.
Avoidable losses
Identify avoidable resource consumption, rework and duplication.
02 · Productivity and operating capacity
Build capacity to meet greater demand.
An operation under pressure does not always need more resources. It may need better workload allocation, fewer interruptions or simpler activities.
We assess workloads, time requirements and ways of working to identify what limits available capacity. We redesign tasks and workflows, and implement improvements to make better use of time and resources.
Depending on the opportunity identified, we assess the automation of records, notifications and handoffs between departments, and the use of AI to support request classification and review. We evaluate its contribution through response times, errors and service quality.
Improve productivity. Free up capacity. Scale with greater control.
03 · Structure and coordination
Turn decisions into effective execution.
We analyze the relationship between organizational structure, responsibilities and operations. We adjust how work is organized to reduce overlaps, clarify responsibilities and facilitate coordination among those involved in the same process.
In corporate governance, this work focuses on clarifying leadership and oversight responsibilities, and connecting decisions with follow-up in day-to-day operations.
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Priorities
Define what matters most at each stage.
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Responsibilities
Clarify who does what.
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Coordination
Align work across departments.
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Follow-up
Connect decisions with progress.
04 · Processes and management information
Lead with a clearer view of what is happening.
In commercial management, this view can connect conversion, cancellations, margins, credit, collections and order fulfillment. It helps identify where opportunities are lost or where increased activity does not translate into better results.
We improve workflows and the information that supports them. We define indicators linked to business objectives to facilitate monitoring, detect deviations and guide decisions.
Business Intelligence organizes this information to answer management questions. Applications to assess include automated report consolidation and AI-assisted analysis of patterns and deviations, with findings reviewed before they are used in decision-making.
Operational information
Consolidate and organize key business information.
Useful indicators
Turn data into a clear, understandable view.
Well-founded decisions
Guide action with greater clarity and evidence.
Optimization, innovation and automation
Optimize to innovate and automate with purpose.
We first understand the causes and assess the impact of improvements. Innovation, artificial intelligence and automation make sense when they help address a business need more effectively. Optimization and automation can be developed together where appropriate.
We design and implement improvements, support their adoption in operations and measure their contribution to results.
Optimize
Simplify what limits operations
Innovate and automate
Technology that serves the business
Measure
Verify the contribution to results
5:1
Measurable results. A minimum 5:1 return commitment.
EFO Designers delivers projects to reduce costs, increase productivity and achieve measurable results, with a minimum guaranteed return of 5:1 where the diagnostic findings support that commitment, subject to the conditions agreed for each project.
Experience in consulting and business leadership.
EFO combines experience leading consulting projects with managerial and executive responsibilities.
- Commercial management
- Credit and collections
- Productivity
- Operational coordination
Frequently asked questions
Before we begin.
How does a project with EFO Designers begin?
The first step is a conversation about your business situation and the objectives you want to achieve. This context informs the scope of the diagnostic assessment and the information needed to identify and quantify improvement opportunities.
What involvement is required from the company?
The level of involvement is agreed according to the project scope. It may include access to relevant information, discussions with those responsible for operations, and coordination to analyze processes and validate proposed improvements.
How is the 5:1 return commitment established?
It is established for projects where the diagnostic findings support the commitment, subject to the conditions agreed in the proposal. The investment used as the basis for this commitment is EFO’s fees. The scope, committed results and measurement criteria are defined for each project.
Does every project require automation or artificial intelligence?
Our work begins with understanding problems and their causes. Simplification, redesign, innovation, automation and artificial intelligence are incorporated when they contribute to the company’s objectives.
Let’s talk about the business you want to build.
Your goals deserve an organization capable of supporting them. Let’s discuss opportunities to strengthen your business and move it closer to the results you seek.