LAKSHAY.

Two-minute self-check

Where is your money waiting?

Eleven questions about your company, or the division you run. Answer for how things work today, not how they should. You score yourself; we never see your answers.

Self-checkThis is a self-check, not a diagnosis. It runs in your browser and sends nothing. No email, no phone. Your answers are saved only on this device, and you can clear them.

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Part 1 of 4

Commercial leakage

Question 1When steel, aluminium or copper prices move past your contract's trigger, how soon does the claim reach the OEM?
Question 2When were the cost sheets behind your live quotes last updated?
Question 3When an engineering change moves your cost, is the price revised before the first changed part ships?

Part 2 of 4

Where work waits

Question 4Think of the last claim, quote or price revision that went out late. Where did it wait longest?

Part 3 of 4

Data, systems and IT

Question 5What runs your accounts?
Question 6Where do your OEM contracts and price letters live?
Question 7Who holds the passwords to your ERP and your OEM portals?
Question 8Would your company's or group's IT need to approve a new tool?
Question 9Could the data stay on your own cloud or servers?

Part 4 of 4

People

Question 10Is there one person who could own a result, with time set aside for it?
Question 11Is there anyone who builds things: Excel models, macros or small tools?

Sources

Where the figures come from.

Only figures from these public documents appear in your results. Company figures come from listed companies' own earnings calls.

  1. Sundram Fasteners, earnings call, February 2023: first-quarter raw-material recovery of 70-75%, aiming for 85-90%. BSE filing (PDF)
  2. Lumax Industries, Gurugram, earnings call, August 2026: 150 bps margin reduction in a quarter from recoveries not yet realised. NSE filing (PDF)
  3. MoSPI, Annual Survey of Industries 2022-23, Volume I: materials at about 68% of output for motor-vehicle parts (NIC 2930). MoSPI (PDF)
  4. Office of the Economic Adviser, Wholesale Price Index, 2022-23 base, August 2026: copper cathodes 159.6, steel forging 82.0. eaindustry.nic.in
  5. Cummins India, purchase order terms and conditions (indirect purchases): 14 days to claim the price impact of a change. Cummins supplier portal (PDF)
  6. BCG, Where's the Value in AI?, October 2024: about 70% of AI implementation challenges come from people and processes. bcg.com
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