Cost Reduction Report Deck

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Twelve slides that report savings, and prove them

A twelve-slide report deck for the review where a cost reduction program is closed out. Its center of gravity is not the savings number but the verification of it, which is why “Verifying the savings” gets a full section of its own. If you are proposing cuts rather than reporting them, this is the wrong shape – the comparison slide here is written as before and after, in the past tense. The agenda on slide 2 lists six lines; the first three take a divider plus a body slide (3-4, 5-6, 7-8), then comparison, metrics, trend and closing.

Result, breakdown, proof

• Slide 4, “Savings summary”, under “Target savings against what we actually saved.”: target KRW 1.2bn against actual KRW 970m, the year closed at 81% of target, 13 of 18 savings tasks done.
• Slide 6, “Savings by item”: raw material repricing KRW 420m, route consolidation KRW 260m, higher equipment uptime KRW 180m. Those three are the recurring savings and add to KRW 860m; the remaining KRW 110m is the one-off saving that slide 8 deliberately breaks out, so the two slides reconcile to KRW 970m.
• Slide 8, “Verifying the savings”, under “Finance has to confirm before we call it a saving.”: reconciled with the ledger, KRW 110m of one-off savings split out, selling-price cuts excluded.

Slide 8 is what separates this deck from a list of good intentions. Present it even when nobody asks.

Before and after

Slide 9 sets Before against After: raw material prices set yearly against renegotiated each quarter, three separate logistics contracts against one combined contract, equipment uptime 68% against 79%. The two uptime figures are the pair most worth keeping, because they are the only line in the deck that shows a mechanism rather than an amount – the 11 point gain is what produced the KRW 180m on slide 6. Keep the columns parallel; an item on the right with no counterpart on the left reads as a claim rather than a change.

The tiles and the cumulative bars

Slide 10 carries 970m annual savings in KRW, 81% target attainment, 13 tasks completed and a 2.1%p gain in cost ratio. Only the last of those is not repeated elsewhere in the deck, and it is the one an auditor will ask about first: a 2.1 percentage point improvement in cost ratio is a much larger claim than KRW 970m on its own, so be ready to show the revenue base it was calculated against. Slide 11 runs Q1 18, Q2 44, Q3 71, Q4 97 under “Unit: index”; the series is cumulative and lands on 97, which matches the KRW 970m card if the unit is KRW 10m. Say so in the caption instead of leaving “Unit: index” in place, and shade the last bar differently if the fourth quarter is still an estimate.

What breaks a savings report

• Counting price cuts you passed on to customers. Slide 8 excludes them on purpose.
• Reporting one-off savings inside the annual run rate. Splitting the KRW 110m out is what makes the rest credible.
• Leaving the item breakdown short of the headline total without saying why.
• Skipping the side effects. If quality or delivery moved, that belongs in the deck before someone else raises it.