Understanding Your Carbon Tax Exposure and Minimising Its Impact

Heidelberg Business Consultancy (BY) was introduced in Australia and New Zealand back in 2001 with the main goal of helping customers to thrive.  A lot has happened to the world and to our industry in the last 10 years, nevertheless BY remained with the same objective towards our industry and also broadening its offerings in this ever challenging business.

With the introduction of a carbon tax in 2012, there will be an impact on most businesses in Australia. Rather than reacting to the inevitable, you should assess your business now, to ascertain utilisation, productivity gaps and waste and start to recoup funds and mitigate losses. With that in mind, Heidelberg Business Consultancy created the Business Sustainability Audit. 

You cannot manage what you don't measure.

The Business Sustainability Audit, or 'BSA', consists of a deep and through analysis of your production and site facilities. With this audit, we can take operational snapshots of your business, specifically looking for waste and your exposure to a carbon tax through your supply chain.  We can measure, calculate and assist you to reduce your carbon emissions, energy costs and waste in a staged process that can increase your profitability and productivity.

Furthermore, our consultancy solutions provide a holistic approach for printers. The Machine Room Audit, or 'MRA'. Introduced in 2001, the MRA captures production data and relates it to sales. This way we are able to understand the critical factors of your production process and connect them with your revenues, in order to answer several questions, such as;

• Which customers are most beneficial to you based on return on production effort?
• Which products do you produce most efficiently and profitably?
• Do you have the right equipment to match your business strategy and product portfolio?

Once we have completed the MRA, we take these findings and apply a second tool, the Analysis of Option, where  we can compare alternative equipment and production scenarios to determine existing and potential utilisation, look at the increasing-cost risks of keeping the 'business as usual' approach or any other matter raised in the process.  With our comprehensive database of industry information, we can help you benchmark your business to similar companies to help establish best practice and help improve business processes.  

With Heidelberg Business Consultancy we assist you to view your businesses from an impartial perspective and help you to make informed profit-oriented decisions.