Gross margin improvement / COGS engineering
Identify and quantify the levers that reduce cost of revenue — infrastructure efficiency, support automation, vendor renegotiation.
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There is no bill of materials to engineer. Margin improvement means changing delivery leverage and seniority mix, raising realisation, or moving work offshore — organisational changes rather than sourcing ones, with a much longer payback.
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Produces: COGS bridge · Margin improvement tracker