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Reporting for manufacturing and distribution

Margin at contribution level, not just at year end.

A range running to thousands of lines behaves like thousands of small businesses. Some of them are carrying the rest. Company-level margin tells you the average and hides the distribution, and by the time the year-end numbers arrive the pricing decisions that caused them are long gone.

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What gets in the way

  • Margin is known at company level but not by product line, customer or channel.
  • Stock valuation takes days of manual work every period.
  • Supplier price rises reach the ledger long before they reach anyone's pricing decision.
  • Carriage, scrap and rework are known costs that nobody actually measures.

Systems we typically connect in manufacturing and distribution

Dynamics 365 Business CentralOracle NetSuiteAccess DimensionsSageXeroSalesforce

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KPIs we help manufacturing and distribution businesses track

Contribution margin by SKU, customer and channel

Stock valuation and stock turns

Standard against actual cost variance

Carriage cost recovery %

On time in full (OTIF) delivery performance

Scrap and rework as a share of production cost

Vizora AI Alerts

Find out while you can still do something about it

Vizora AI Alerts check your figures every day and email the person who can act when one crosses a threshold. Typical rules in manufacturing and distribution:

Alert

A product line falls below its target contribution

Alert

Stock cover on a fast-moving line drops below its threshold

Alert

A customer's blended margin falls below the level they were priced at

Real results

W.E. Rawson: 10,000+ SKUs monitored at contribution level

1,000sof hours saved per year on like-for-like reporting
2+ dayssaved every month on stock valuations alone
10,000+SKUs monitored at contribution level
Read the W.E. Rawson case study

Manufacturing and distribution — common questions

We have over ten thousand SKUs. Is that a problem?
No — it is the reason to do this. We already monitor a range of that size at contribution level for a customer in this sector, and volume is exactly the situation where sampling stops being good enough.
Can you handle standard costing and actual costing together?
Yes. Reporting the variance between them is usually one of the first things a manufacturer asks for, because it is where pricing decisions quietly go wrong.
Does this replace our ERP reporting?
It sits alongside it. Your ERP reports on itself very well. What it cannot do is put production data next to sales and finance data, which is where contribution margin actually comes from.

Other sectors

Electrical, plumbing and HVAC

Jobs completed is not the same as jobs making money.

Construction

Know where a contract stands before it finishes.

Property maintenance

High volume, thin margins, and no room to find out late.

Facilities management

Multi-site contracts, and no single view of whether they pay.

Civils and groundworks

Know the position on a job before the final account.

Fire, security and compliance servicing

Every certificate accounted for. Every contract measured.

Professional services

Utilisation and recovery, without the month-end scramble.

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