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Impact:ECS Enterprise Cost System

 

Process manufacturers often have unique needs when it comes to calculating and analyzing production costs.  Raw material costs constantly change and prices shift based on market conditions.  Products are manufactured on multiple lines at a number of locations, often times in other countries. 

 

3C Software has developed Impact:ECS, a best-of-breed cost management solution to address these needs through a comprehensive suite of products. The intelligent design of Impact:ECS empowers cost managers to build, maintain and adjust custom cost models without involving IT resources. Impact:ECS is not a manufacturing execution system (MES) or an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Instead, it is a dedicated cost management system with the ability to integrate existing financial and production systems to maximize the usefulness of all your collected data.

 

Impact:ECS helps companies define their cost management process by providing tools to capture, calculate, analyze and share data throughout the organization.

 

Enterprise Costing Process

Capture.

Impact:ECS leverages the power of your existing IT architecture by collecting data from commercial or proprietary systems to access the needed information to calculate production costs.

Calculate.

The powerful Impact:3C server application contains the the highest performance calculation engine available to handle an unlimited number of cost objects, products, processes and user-defined calculations.

Analyze.

Compare and dissect cost results using the Impact:EDC desktop or Impact:EWC web client applications. The drill-down capabilities available gives cost managers the ability to look behind the results to understand how costs are accumulated.

Share.

Create and share custom reports and cost sheets with the Impact:CRD Cost Report Designer or export results to Microsoft Excel to increase transparency of cost results within the company.

 

Enterprise Costing Deliverables

 

Impact:ECS is more than just a tool to calculate product costs - it effectively handles the entire cost management process. 

Rates and budgets: Building cost or work center rates is the first step in any enterprise costing approach.  Impact:ECS provides the tools to calculate these rates and allocate costs based on a company's specific set of cost drivers.  These calculated rates allow cost managers to build better, more informative budgets to predict financial performance.

Multiple cost sets: Multiple views of production cost provides the ability to compare and contrast results.  With Impact:ECS, cost managers can calculate actual, standard, forecasted or any other cost view needed.

Inventory values: Understanding inventory values is critical for process manufacturers that often times manage multiple inventory categories, cost centers, reporting cycles.  Impact:ECS delivers integrated valuation tools that reduce period closing cycle times and make reporting results easier.

With Impact:ECS, companies are able to:

  • Calculate realistic, actionable product costs dynamically

  • Access frozen, current, going-to or other product cost scenarios

  • React to near-real-time cost data immediately

  • Identify unprofitable products and/or customers

  • Improve sales pricing decisions

  • Expedite budgeting and month-end processes

  • Integrate budget, cost, and end-of-month processes

  • Eliminate using expensive IT resources to modify or build custom applications

Learn about the Impact:ECS product suite > 

 

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