Manufacturing SMEs need help to improve management!
At best Australia is a middle ranking country when it comes to manufacturing management. We at CMC believe there is a great requirement for Australian business to become better managed across the board. Governments of all persuasions have over recent years created many of the conditions in terms of legal and policy frameworks to enable world class performance.

SMEs in manufacturing need to improve effectiveness of managing all the business functions.
These are activities that every business needs to manage effectively and efficiently. Every enterprise, not matter how big or small needs to get these things done, to improve value creation.
CMC can help you improve management in many of these areas.

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Mainstream operations or primary activities

•  Developing and improving product/services for clients.
•  Producing the goods or services, by design, manufacturing, and market logistics.
•  Procuring materials, components, etc. needed for producing product/ services.
•  Delivering the goods or services.
•  Selling and effecting sound customer relations.
•  Marketing in the sense of analysis of needs of the client population as whole, and of promotions calculated to encourage clients to seek the goods or services.
•  New business development, not just improving current business, but developing new types of business calling for new business units or the transformation of existing business units.

Specialist Support Staff functions - assisting operational managers in the major dimensions of their work:

• Financial policies and priorities. Capital raising, investment management  
• Priorities setting; scheduling, resourcing, business analysis.
• Human resourcing, organizational development, remuneration, training.
• Technology and business process improvement.
• Legal policies, legislative developments.
• Public affairs, relations with major organizations other than clients.
• Budgets and accounts, and monitoring of expenditure trends.
• Auditing- internal financial and performance reviewing and auditing for CEO and owners, to ensure that all managers in all functions are operating within company policy.
  
• Service providing; centralized or shared services brought together on an economies of scale basis, such as: routine recruitment or training, insurance, property, maintenance, stores, purchasing, payroll, accounting, ICT.

Corporate management and governance
Above all these functions we have governance, and as a foundation for it all enterprises need sound corporate management including strategic planning and management, and ensuring appropriate conduct of all the parts of the business in a coherent ethical whole.