For maquiladoras and manufacturers
Know what every product you make really costs.
We bring your ERP and your costing spreadsheets together in the cloud, and deliver the consolidated cost by product and by customer, with savings opportunities ranked by priority.
Wire harness A-2140
Customer: Automotriz del Norte
Cost per unit, USD
- Materials$9.40
- Labor$3.30
- Machine$1.90
- Overhead$1.60
- Scrap$0.90
- Sale price
- $18.40
- Actual cost
- $17.10
- Actual margin
- 7.1%
The quote assumed 18%.
What goes on at almost every plant
Standard cost isn't actual cost
Scrap, cycle times and machine rates change, and the ERP still carries the cost from the quote.
You don't know which customers make you money
Actual margin by product and by customer is scattered across five spreadsheets nobody cross-checks.
Purchasing with no benchmark
Supplier prices never compared against each other, or against raw material indexes and the exchange rate.
How we do it
First we put your data in order. Then we put it to work.
- 1
Extract
From the ERP and from your costing, purchasing and sales spreadsheets.
- 2
Standardize
We clean up and unify the spreadsheets so they can be read automatically.
- 3
Load to the cloud
Automated processes that keep everything updated, hands-off.
- 4
Cost dashboards
Actual cost, margins and alerts, always current.
The dashboards
Five views that answer the questions that take days today.
Consolidated cost by product
Materials, labor, machine and overhead, by product and by customer.
Customers and sales
Actual cost vs. sale price, volumes and the products that earn the most.
Purchasing and suppliers
Prices by supplier, component and volume, side by side.
Market indexes
Raw materials and exchange rates next to what you're paying.
Inventory health
Dead stock, tied-up capital and risk by customer and product.
What you walk away with
Cost intelligence report
Analysis of purchasing, manufacturing costs, sales and inventory, with savings ranked by priority.
Negotiation-ready data
A package for your meetings with suppliers and customers, and for quarterly reviews.
Leadership presentation
The executive summary, ready for the leadership meeting.
Documentation and training
Your team knows how to use and maintain everything we build.
What you gain
Lower costs
You fix what's already costing you too much.
Fewer surprises
We alert you when a price or a cost moves out of its range.
An X-ray of the business
You see which product, customer and supplier drives your margin.
Negotiating power
You walk into every meeting with your numbers, not the other side's.
What the project looks like
A three-to-four-month project. After that, if you want, we maintain it for you.
Month 1
Your data, in order
ERP connection, spreadsheet cleanup and loading to the cloud.
Month 2
The dashboards
Cost, sales, purchasing, market and inventory.
Months 3 and 4
The analysis
Savings opportunities, report and negotiation package.
Ongoing
Maintenance
Optional: new sources, adjustments and everything kept current.
Let's see what each product really costs you.
The first conversation is about understanding your plant and your data.