As any business owner or CEO knows, manufacturing costs are constantly rising and you have to fight the battle every day to guard your profit margin. If you are using a Catapult to fight rising costs and your competition is using a Howitzer, you need to read this book. In this economy, if ever there was a time to use a howitzer to attack the castle where the profits are stored, this is it. Well, maybe it's not quite that serious, but you certainly can't sit back and just hope it gets better. The only way it will get better is if you are proactive, and the sooner you start the more impact you can have. This book will help you evaluate your situation to see if you need to do a cost reduction project, help you choose the project, walk you through the steps of a project, and even take it to the next level with cost containment. After you have done the work to reduce the costs, you want to make sure they don't creep up on you after the project is complete. There are some really good tips to make the process easier and at the end of the book there are even "Excel Hints" to help you with the spreadsheets. Just remember that if you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. Are you ready to do something different? If so, try these proven methods - today This book is for managers to get the overview and understand the process. Order the full sized, full color companion workbook for the people that will be doing the projects.