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How do you ensure the financial stability of your projects? Discuss strategies for effective cost control and budget management in the supply chain.


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-What methods and tools do you use for budget control?

-How do you deal with unexpected costs or budget overruns?


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That sounds almost too simple. In my decades of experience, I have seen that budget overruns are often caused by external factors that you simply cannot foresee. It's not always about poor planning, but about the ability to react flexibly and pragmatically.

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But isn't that exactly the problem? These “external factors” are often used as an excuse to cover up poor planning. Of course, you can't foresee everything, but if budget overruns are the rule and not the exception, something is fundamentally wrong.

However, the reality is that we work in a complex world in which not everything can be planned. It's about managing risks and still keeping an eye on the goal. A little flexibility doesn't hurt, and there are situations where budget overruns are unavoidable - that's part of the business.

Perhaps, but isn't that precisely why you should work even harder to build this flexibility into the plan? If budget overruns occur so frequently, it could also mean that the project goals are too ambitious from the outset. Less would sometimes be more.

That may be true in theory, but in practice it is rarely so black and white. If we approached every project so conservatively, we would often get in our own way. The key is to find a balance and not get lost in unrealistic demands for perfection.

Are budget overruns really unavoidable? Or are they the result of poor planning and unrealistic expectations? I think we often tell ourselves that it is “normal” to go over budget. Perhaps we should rather question the causes.

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