We all work every day at making our businesses leaner and more efficient. And, we generally focus on our prime processes to reduce our costs to the minimum! After wringing as much as we can out of our vendors for direct costs, we then look to related costs and utilize the same methods to reduce those costs.Most businesses utilize traditional, competitive methods to source the goods and services we need to run our operations. And, our continual efforts to buy at ever lower prices often yield some reduced cost benefits.