Equine Vet Practices Enjoy Increased Profits With Profit Solver
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Equine Vet Practices Enjoy Increased Profits with Profit Solver
London, UK, Dec 6 2016 – Zoetis Inc. today announced equine veterinary practices in the UK are reaping the benefits of Profit Solver, a proven financial analysis tool provided by Zoetis Business Consulting that has been designed to significantly improve practice profits. Profit Solver was rolled out to the UK last year following its launch in the USA, where more than 300 practices have now benefited significantly from the service.
Traditionally veterinary practices have set their prices by simply adding a set mark-up, without knowing which services make a profit or loss and without understanding exactly how overall practice profit is being generated.
Profit Solver replaces guesstimates with precision. It uses the practice’s own data to calculate the exact cost for the 130 most commonly performed veterinary services, representing 90% of the revenue generated by the practice. Labour, inventory and equipment costs are combined with time-and-motion studies for each service and Profit Solver assesses the variance between cost and price to reveal profit or loss.
Using a collection of cost data, which staff perform which part of the procedure, how long the procedure takes and what equipment and materials are used, Profit Solver calculates the correct pricing to both cover costs and deliver a pre-determined profit margin.
The implementation of Profit Solver is straightforward. A Zoetis business consultant will guide the practice through every step of the process from data collection to examining the time-and-motion studies. They will discuss the level of profitability the practice needs to deliver and will help analyse prices to achieve this goal whilst preserving the price-point of highly competitive services and covering all the practice’s costs.
Profit Solver has had keen take-up from the small animal veterinary sector: For the 28 practices that have utilised the service so far this year it has delivered an average EBITDA growth of 36%. Now equine practices are recognising how it can inject better profitability into their businesses.
Ian Camm, Group Director of B&W Equine Vets in Gloucestershire heard about Profit Solver from a vet in a neighbouring practice who was impressed with how Profit Solver had helped his business. Ian discussed Profit Solver with his Zoetis account manager and booked an appointment with Zoetis Business Consultant Anthea Pike who has helped him implement the software across B&W Equine Group.
He said: “Initially I was concerned that Profit Solver would suggest we put prices up where we felt that we would not be able to - people shop around for their veterinary services these days and many services are very price sensitive. The first stage in the process addressed this by looking at our figures, calculating the cost price for each procedure and then, by comparing with our fees charged, identified where we were losing money. The big question was whether we would be comfortable to increase our fees on loss-making procedures. The beauty of the system was that by looking at a large number of procedures which were done frequently, very small increases in fee would total to a significant improvement in the bottom line.
“The software has made us recognise where the real costs are and how to address these areas accordingly, for example we have identified that current stud packages are not profitable. One of the problems in arriving at true costs is the difficulty in accurately allocating time to various procedures when several different vets are involved or an expensive scanner is used, which can have a significant impact on the results. It’s early days, but I can already see the difference that Profit Solver could make to our bottom line and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it providing the practice is prepared to make changes in light of the results. We are looking at improving our bottom line by a six figure sum over a 12 month period with what we hope, will be hardly noticeable price rises.”
For further information visit www.zoetis.co.uk/businessconsulting.
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