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Cost answers impact every phase of your business.

To run a scalable, agile, and growing business, you must invest in analytics processes that improve the outcomes of your company’s most critical decisions. With a deep understanding of costs for each activity that makes your company go, you can establish an objective and accurate view of your company’s performance to both improve trust in the results and create accountability for the answers.

Get Deep Cost and Profit Insights Across the Value Chain with ImpactECS

Cost to Source
Cost to Make
Cost to Deliver
Cost of Terms + Incentives
End-to-End Cost and Profitability Performance
Cost to Make

Allocations and Rate Building

A true view of profits needs a robust method to allocate all costs that are not directly traceable to a…
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Cost to Make

Bill-of-Materials + Routing Management

The combination of bill-of-materials (BOM) and production routing details describes how each manufactured product is made. Both BOMs and routings…
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Cost Estimates and Should Costing

With 80% of costs locked in during design, should cost analysis gives you the ability to analyze the true costs…
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Cost Planning, Allocations + Rate Building

A true view of profits needs a robust method to allocate all costs that are not directly traceable to a…
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Cost to Make

Cost-Based Quoting

For contract manufacturing and engineered products companies, the quoting process starts with a request from a customer for a product…
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End-to-End Cost and Profitability Performance

Cost-to-Serve

Establishing an effective Cost-to-Serve program requires an objective process to measure costs that offer transparency into operational costs and cost…
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Driver-Based Costing

Companies use methods like Activity-Based Costing, Driver-Based Costing, and TDABC with the goal of allocating resource and overhead costs in…
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ImpactECS for SAP

After making significant investments in SAP® for product costing, many companies still have a need for flexible analytical tools to…
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Cost to Source

Inbound Landed Costs

Choosing a vendor partner is often more complex than just finding the cheapest price for your materials. Inbound landed cost…
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Incentives: Discounts, Rebates, Trade Funding

Evaluating the costs of products and services requires a… Align discounts, rebates, and trade investments with specific products and customers…
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Cost to Make

Inventory Valuation

Inventory valuation is a critical component in calculating Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), which ultimately determines your organization’s profitability. For…
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Logistics Costing

Companies often work to optimize costs in functional silos, but these discrete efforts risk driving costs down one silo while…
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Cost to Source

Material Resource Planning

At their core, Material Resource Planning processes convert sales or demand forecasts into production plans to determine the materials and…
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Cost to Make

New Product Costing

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Cost to Deliver

Outbound + Reverse Logistics Costs

The cost of logistics or the last mile of your supply chain are often managed as a total percent of…
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Cost to Deliver

Outbound Transportation Costs

Rising fuel costs, labor shortages, capacity constraints, and ever-increasing customer demands make it critical to have full transparency of freight…
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End-to-End Cost and Profitability Performance

P+L Forecasting

Profit and loss statements are a primary vehicle for evaluating your company’s profitability.  By viewing both revenues and expenses together…
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Planning + Simulations

Your company’s critical business planning and simulation activities are likely based on spreadsheets that are tough to manage, prone to…
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Cost to Deliver

Post-Manufacturing Costs

Post-Manufacturing costs like repacking and relabeling are often performed in the distribution center instead of the plants because there is…
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Pricing Decision Support

Setting the sales price for your product or service is a critical step when determining profits, but that process is…
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Cost to Make

Product Costing

Product cost data is a cornerstone to analyzing financial performance. Comprehensive and detailed cost answers provide the insights necessary to…
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End-to-End Cost and Profitability Performance

Product, Customer + Channel Profitability

Determining product, customer, or channel profitability requires an end-to-end framework that creates transparency into your operational cost drivers. Without a…
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End-to-End Cost and Profitability Performance

Revenue and Margin Analysis

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Cost to Deliver

Selling and Support Costs

Leverage transparency of selling and support activities to right-size investments in services and resources. With ImpactECS you can assess sales…
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End-to-End Cost and Profitability Performance

Shared Services Costing + Chargebacks

Companies have optimized the cost of business support services like human resources, legal, finance and information technology by pulling them…
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End-to-End Cost and Profitability Performance

SKU Rationalization

Proliferation of available SKUs can lead to real cost and profitability challenges for your organization. For some industries, introducing and…
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Strategic Sourcing

Adequate supply capacity is critical to meet customer demand, and understanding the costs and risks associated with your sourcing partners…
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Cost to Source

Subcontractor Manufacturing

For many manufacturers, part or all of the production process is handled by external companies, and control over the processes…
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Cost to Deliver

Supply Chain Costs

Companies often work to optimize costs in functional silos, but these discrete efforts risk driving costs down in one silo…
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Cost to Source

Target + Should Costs

With 80% of costs locked in during design, target and should cost analysis gives you the ability to analyze the…
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Cost of Terms + Incentives

Terms and Incentives Analytics

The terms and conditions offered to customers should drive top line growth and contribute to bottom line. Most companies end…
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Terms: Payment, Returns, Terms of Sale

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End-to-End Cost and Profitability Performance

Transfer Pricing + Intercompany Profits

Transfer pricing identifies where value is created and where it moves inside an organization – a critical component of profitability…
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Variance Analysis + KPIs

The explosion of data available to make decisions can create challenges when it comes to evaluate risks and opportunities. Variances…
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