Improving Operational and Financial Efficiency with Product ID Rationalization — Cisco`s Experience

The article shows how Cisco improved its operational and financial efficiencies with PID (product ID) rationalization. Not only that, it outlines the strategy used to get the executive buy-in, and then implementing it. Savings can come from various sources. It shows all the sources of saving for a hardware (HW) portfolio, and the way to monetize them to know exactly how much has been saved from rationalization.