Manufacturing
A manufacturing business was invoicing clients, paying suppliers, and running production — all without a single clear view of whether each product was actually making them money. They were busy. But were they profitable?
Visibility
0
Real-time visibility into per-product profitability
Systems
3
Disconnected systems handling purchases, production and invoicing
Decisions
Every month
Decisions made on gut feeling instead of data
Revenue was growing. But nobody could tell if profit was growing with it.
In manufacturing, the gap between what you invoice and what you actually keep is everything. This company had no way to measure that gap — in real time or at month end.
Purchase orders were raised. Materials arrived. But the actual landed cost — including freight, duties, and delays — was never captured against the product it went into. Every cost estimate was a guess.
Labour, machine time, energy, wastage — none of it was tracked against individual production runs. The cost of making each product was an assumption, not a number. A wrong assumption, as it turned out.
Sales invoices were raised based on price lists set months ago. Nobody was checking whether those prices still covered actual costs. Some products were being sold below their real cost of production.
By the time the accountant prepared quarterly numbers, the damage was already done. Price increases were always reactive, always late, and always based on incomplete information.
The business was making decisions with one eye closed.
The owner knew which clients were buying the most. They had no idea which products were actually worth selling.
When raw material prices went up, the impact on final product margin wasn't calculated until weeks later — after dozens of invoices had already gone out at the old price.
The finance team and the production team had different numbers for the same costs. Neither set was completely right.
We connected the dots. We're not sharing the details here.
The client didn't need new software. They needed their existing systems to stop existing in isolation. We built a solution that connected raw material purchasing, production costs, and final invoicing into a single coherent view — so the business could finally see, in real time, whether each product was making or losing money. How we built it is a conversation for a call.
For the first time, they knew exactly which products to push and which to reprice.
We'd been in business for eleven years and never actually known our true margin per product. Within a month of going live we repriced four product lines. That decision alone paid for the entire project.
— Director, Manufacturing Company, India (Name withheld at client's request)
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