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What does PREMA offer ?

How do you benefit from PREMA?

PREMA offers you:  Individual and organizational consulting service to increase your profits  Long term sustainable organizational solutions due to interactive approach  Reduce waste of resources and financial losses, and strengthen your organization  General experience: most companies can realize 10-15% reduction of costs.

 Higher profit: Reduce your costs of producing goods and services  Higher Efficiency: Enhance your organizational capabilities  Improve your environmental performance  Positive effects in the area of health and workplace safety.

Examples: Economic benefits implemented measures in Rwanda:

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Construction sector:  Reduced damage to finished goods worth 2.7 million RWF Manufacturing sector:  Recycling and reusing product breakages reduced disposal from 32% to 9% which annually saves 384,000 RWF Metal sector :  1.6 million RWF new revenue by collecting, sorting and selling scrap metal to another company In a typical consultancy, you will identify and realize several saving potentials … summing up to even more benefit.

PREMA Profitable Resource Efficient MAnagement Waste is Money!

For further information please contact : Supported by:

PSF PREMA Coordinator Private Sector Federation – PSF E : premarwanda@gmail.com T :+250-252-570650/ +250-789-771275

What is PREMA ?

before

PREMA stands for Profitable Resource Efficient Management. With support of a PREMA consultant, you increase your profits thanks to waste reduction or additional income from use of waste.

You analyze the current organization and its processes. You identify, where unnecessary waste is produced, and calculate its economic effect. Together with the consultant, you work out ways to reduce waste … or even turn it into opportunities to generate additional income.

PREMA certified consultants have already successfully implemented PREMA in Rwandan companies from different sectors: construction, manufacturing, bakeries, beauty salons, hotels and more.

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1. Contact Sector Association or PSF PREMA Coordinator to request the service 2. Initial visit by consultant to the company to verify general potential for benefits through PREMA approach 3. Analysis and identification of waste positions in cooperation with management and staff 4. Preparation of Case Studies for different waste issues and Action Plan with specific measures for implementation

You will focus on all materials, water and energy inputs that go into the process … and that do not contribute to the final product.

 Steel and iron cut-offs clutter up the premises

Consequence

 Accumulated metal waste leading to resource waste and site overload  Disturbance in the production process

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Problem

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Rwandan Metal Works Company In pu t

The PREMA approach has successfully been applied in companies in more than 40 countries. PREMA is a service of PSF offered to Small and Medium Enterprises through the Sector Associations.

How the PREMA Approach works

A Success Story

Product to be sold

Material

Improvement Idea

 Sell metal waste to another company for reuse

Effects / Benefits

 1,627,000 million RWF benefit within 3 months without any investment  Cleaned up production areas, clear work-flows  Reduced accidents in the working area

Energy Energy Water Water Material

NP O Valuable resources not used in product

4. The Consultant supports the client in the implementation of improvement measures 5. Documentation of effects.

The complete implementation of the PREMA service will take 4-5 months. During this time you will need to invest some time and support of management and operations staff to identify potentials, discuss solutions and implement them with the consultant.