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Hard Savings vs Soft Savings—What’s The Difference?

Obobo

When it comes to measuring savings, it’s important to understand the difference between hard savings and soft savings. Hard savings are quantifiable, measurable, and easy to tie to the bottom line. Examples of KPIs for hard savings include cost per unit, labor productivity, and energy usage per unit of output.

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Yanfeng Auto adopts IBM Data, AI and Intelligent Automation Software to accelerate digital and intelligent transformation

IBM Business Partners

That presents big challenges for the company in terms of labor cost and efficiency. For example, for each manual installation, deployment, configuration, upgrade, and maintenance, it would take days or weeks and incur a huge labor cost. However, this open-source system poses multiple operational complexities.