Moving into the Express Lane

Rick Pay has been dubbed by his clients as the ÒSherlock Holmes of operations and supply chain management.Ó He is the principal and founder of The R. PAY COMPANY, LLC, a consulting firm established in 1999 to help mid-market companies accelerate profit and growth through leading-edge business and operations strategy, profitable partnerships, and operations and supply chain excellence. His clients are rapidly growing manufacturing, distribution, retail, telecommunications, high tech, and professional service firms. Rick's book, 1 + 1 = 100: Achieving Breakthrough Results Through Partnerships, was published in December 2016 by Business Expert Press. Rick appears frequently as a speaker, and his articles have been published by Industry Week, the Institute for Supply Management, Supply Chain World, and others. He has been interviewed and quoted in publications including Forbes, National Foundation of Independent Business (NFIB), and CFO Magazine.

Moving into the Express Lane: How to Rapidly Increase the Value of Your Business will show readers how to exponentially increase their company's value by aligning operations strategy with the business model. Increasing a business's value and potential sale price is important for business transitions as well as for ongoing operations to accelerate revenue growth, increase profits and cash flow, and to allow the company to increase capacity and grow without capital expense. Many companies focus on implementing tactics, such as lean, without a strategic framework, which renders their efforts fruitless. By taking a holistic operations-based view of strategy and tactics, executives can exponentially improve their company's value. The concepts and resources in Moving into the Express Lane are useful to manufacturing, distribution, and retail organizations, as well as any company that has an operations component and suppliers. Executives, managers, and practitioners at all levels-as well as consultants-will use it as a desktop reference