What changes when cost data is something you can act on?
Knowing what costs were last quarter doesn’t help you make decisions today. ERP tells you what rolled up, and spreadsheets fill the gaps, but they don’t scale, they break, and they give every analyst a different answer. ImpactECS models how costs behave, so finance and operations can act on what’s coming.
Profitability by product, customer, and channel
See true margin at any level of detail. Understand which products, customers, and channels actually make money and which are subsidized by the rest.
One model for finance and operations
Connect ERP, operational, and financial data into a single cost model the whole organization can access and act on.
Scenario analysis before you commit
Model price changes, sourcing shifts, and volume scenarios against your actual cost structure before decisions are made, not after.
Cost intelligence powered by AI
ImpactECS brings AI into cost and profitability analysis, so finance teams can get answers faster and spend less time building and maintaining models.
ImpactECS in practice
Real implementations across manufacturing, distribution, process, and services industries. Each one built around the cost and profitability questions that matter most to that business.
Industrial Distributor | US
Endries International needed more than direct margin data to understand true customer profitability. With ImpactECS, they built a customer-level P&L that incorporates cost-to-serve factors, giving sales and finance teams the insight to make smarter decisions on pricing, service levels, and account strategy.
Electronics Manufacturing | US
When tariff exposure began reshaping component costs across their global supply chain, Plexus embedded ImpactECS into their quoting process to model tariff impacts at the component level, simulate regional sourcing scenarios, and deliver transparent, defensible pricing to customers in real time.
Poultry Processor | AUS
A $2 billion poultry processor replaced spreadsheet-driven cost reporting with an ImpactECS profitability environment that integrates yield data, cost allocations, and market-based analysis, giving leadership granular P&L visibility by product, customer, plant, and market
Contract Manufacturing | US
A $5.4 billion contract manufacturer processing more than 15,000 unique quotes annually across 26 plants replaced an inconsistent, manual quoting process with ImpactECS, standardizing cost-based quoting logic across complex BOMs, multi-level approvals, and global operations to improve margin confidence before every customer submission.
Apparel Manufacturer | US
A $2.7 billion apparel manufacturer running five separate cost systems replaced fragmented, plant-level costing with ImpactECS, giving finance teams a single environment to calculate standard costs across finished SKUs, integrate plant-specific variables, and generate volume-based forecasts without ERP customization.
Commercial Printer | US, Europe
A $2.5 billion custom print manufacturer replaced spreadsheet-based costing across more than 100,000 unique SKUs with ImpactECS, enabling finance and operations teams to calculate standard costs at scale, model dynamic custom projects, and improve pricing decisions without manual rework.
Office Products Distributor | US
After a major merger, an $8.3 billion office products distributor needed a consistent way to measure true profitability across a combined organization. ImpactECS delivered invoice-level cost-to-serve modeling across customers, products, and branches, generating $3.3 million in operating expense savings and a 25 basis point improvement in adjusted gross profit within the first year.
Toy Manufacturer | US, APAC
A $454 million toy manufacturer replaced disconnected spreadsheet-based RFQ and quoting processes with ImpactECS, giving design, sourcing, and finance teams a shared cost foundation to generate accurate estimates, maintain BOM standards across brands, and negotiate more effectively with vendors.
Take something useful with you
Resources built for finance and operations leaders who are evaluating how to get more out of their cost and profitability data.
Gartner Vendor Briefing
See how 3C Software positioned ImpactECS to Gartner analysts: what we built, what problems it solves, and where we’re headed.
White Paper: Turning Hidden Costs Into Strategic Advantage
Sales are strong, margins look fine, yet profit keeps slipping. This paper explores why the gap between gross margin and net profit is where most organizations lose visibility, and what it takes to see and act on the costs that don’t show up in standard reports.
Ways to Use ImpactECS: Retail Banking Profitability and the Customer Cost Gap
Net interest margin tells you how products are priced. It doesn’t tell you which customers are actually profitable to serve.
Ways to Use ImpactECS: Standard Costing Challenges in Changing Operations
Standard costs are set once and trusted too long. See what happens when cost models evolve with the business instead of lagging behind it.
Ways to Use ImpactECS: Why AI Answers Are Only as Good as Your Cost Model
AI is only as good as the data behind it. See why a structured cost model is the foundation every AI answer depends on.
Overcoming ERP Costing Limitations with ImpactECS
ERP handles transactions. It was never built to answer “where did the margin go?”
