Training

CEBRS Consulting and Training Services

Level 1: No Charge Consultation
- After an initial evaluation your CEBRS Consultant will recommend potential improvements and discuss how our providers may be of help.

Level 2: Fee Based Customized Consulting Project that Fits Your Needs
- If after the initial review you want to have a more extensive examination resulting in detailed recommended actions, your CEBRS Consultant is available for a deeper analysis.
- In advance of any engagement, you will be given a Proposal that outlines the scope, deliverables, benefits and cost of a project. The objective will be to customize our approach to address your specific needs.

Why a Customized Consulting Project?
- Is your company experiencing increased accounts receivable risk? Slow A/R turns? Increased Customer Claims, deductions and short payments? Eroding profitability? Increasing overhead expenses? We help you generate the cash needed to sustain and grow your business and to reduce overhead costs to increase bottom line profit.

What to Expect:
- Our objective is to spend only as much time as necessary on site, with minimal distraction to your busy staff. We provide a hands on approach, leveraging decades of practitioner and consulting experience. We first learn about your business, the issues and opportunities. We directly engage with key stakeholders. We provide detailed short-term, mid-term and long-term actions your company can take to make improvements.

Results:
- Revenue Opportunities: We maximize them
- Collection Cycles: We shorten them
- Costs and Efficiencies: We improve them
- Bad Debt Risks: We help control and reduce them
- Supplier Risks: We bring transparency and predictability
- Our goal is to assist companies by addressing the unique financial and operational challenges
- faced by businesses of all sizes today.
  - We improve working capital through improved cash flow and accounts receivable management.
  - We help find ways to increase sales even when there is an identified risk.
  - We introduce alternatives to get to “Yes” by securitizing or financing sales.
  - Our experienced consultants are dedicated to providing realistic and comprehensive solutions that are customized to suit your company's needs and achieve results.

Our Services:

CEBRS Working Capital and Turnaround Consulting Service
We address:
- Working Capital Management:
  - Open opportunities to increase revenue and profit
  - Reduce overhead expense through process streamlining and efficiencies
  - Review, recommend and assist with organizational optimization and staff deployment
  - Implement risk mitigation and securitization approaches to increase customer credit lines with managed risk.
  - Review automation opportunities, recommend solutions, and assist with the implementation of software tools and outsource opportunities in the areas of:
    - Credit/Collections
    - Dispute Management
    - Cash Administration
    - Payment Processing
    - Invoicing
    - Treasury management
- Performance Measurements, Trending, and Management Reporting:
  - Implement performance measurements and targets related to Credit, Collections, Dispute Management, and other critical Working Capital Management functions.
  - Implement Management Reports, bringing operational transparency for effective performance oversight.
- Revival of Distressed Companies:
  - Proven turnaround success devoted to:
    - Needs Assessment
    - Recommendations and assistance with actions to bring a failing company to solvency and lead it to growth and success.
- Determining Borrowing Needs and Assisting Approval of Alternative Financing Options:
  - Optimize the Cash to Cash Cycle with supplemental borrowing capacity
  - Increase Supply Chain credit line availability
  - Recommend Financing Resources and Options
  - Assist with Loan Application and Approval
- Provide Management and Staff Development and Subject Matter Training:
  - Management and Leadership
  - Accounting and Finance
  - Treasury
  - Credit Analysis and Management
  - Collections Management

Quote to Cash Process Improvement:
- We provide complete process management consultation.
- We look at processes, systems and tools as well as staff deployment and utilization.
- Each engagement is scaled to the needs and budget of the client.
- We analyze the current financial status of our client’s businesses, recommend improvements and if needed, provide implementation oversight to ensure that our clients achieve the best possible results and a tangible return on any investment.
- Supply Chain Risk Review:
  - We provide the processes needed for you to know your Supplier’s financial stability both up-front and on an ongoing cycle?
  - We help answer the question, “Will this Supplier deliver what is needed to operate my business for as long as needed?

Supply Chain Risk Review:
- We provide the processes needed for you to know your Supplier’s financial stability both up-front and on an ongoing cycle?
- We help answer the question, “Will this Supplier deliver what is needed to operate my business for as long as needed?

Training:
- CEBRS Consultants can provide both Webinar and face to face training and meeting facilitation.
- Our training and meeting facilitation is hands on, with a “See, Hear, Do” approach.
- We bring the subject matter to life and engage the participants.
- By the end of each program, participants have developed meaningful take-a-ways they can use on the job the next day.
- We bring decades of training and facilitation experience to meet each client’s needs covering critical business areas including:
  - Management development and Leadership
  - Negotiations
  - Credit Analysis
  - Collections
  - Dispute Management
  - Order to Cash Management
  - Employee stress management and incentive
  - Executive retreat and symposium facilitation
  - International credit and finance

Our Consultants Deliver:

CEBRS can help you. We work with businesses to establish cross-functional approaches to issues related to:
- Credit
- Billing
- Customer Service
- Cash Administration
- Collections
- Dispute management

Contact Us:  We invite you to contact us today and begin working towards a more productive and efficient working capital management process, leading to stronger financial results and increased customer satisfaction.

Please contact CEBRS for more information on this program and to determine if this will provide a viable solution for your particular needs.

For additional information, or to schedule a call/visit you can contact a CEBRS Partner:

Robert Shultz:      rshultz@cebrs.com / (805) 520-7880 (Office) / (805) 501-1769 (Mobile)
Mel Kaye:             mkaye@cebrs.com / (724) 635-5293 (Office) / (805) 300-1769 (Mobile)