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Cost Calculator - Intelligent, Interactive Reports

Today’s economic headlines demand a better cost analysis program Cost Calculator can deliver today!!

The Cost Calculator has introduced a new concept in reporting for Made2Manage* SQL User’s.  Intelligent, Interactive Reports delivered to you, complete and ready to run.  Think about having a repository of pre-configured, intelligently designed reports, where you as a user can “pick and choose” the reports you need.  Reports that the users can interact with and fine tune to their exact requirements.

Analyze all your Costs from one simple interface

  • Easily see your Sales Revenue, Cost of Goods Sold, Job Costs and Purchasing Cost with out having to run multiple reports.

  • Complete drill down to the detailed cost breakdowns (Material/Labor/Sub/Other)

  • Interactively manipulate the Cost Groupings and Aggregates to see your cost data for different scenarios (i.e. By Sales Order, By Customer, By Job, By Part, By Product Class, By Ship To Location, and many, many more.

  • New! Calculated Actual Costs - a theoretical cost based on the historical Job and Purchasing transactions over a given timeframe.

  • Project Costing with Estimates to Complete.

Performance Indicators highlight problem areas

  • Performance Indicator (PI) Builder allows you to determine your Critical PI’s through an intuitive interface. 

  • Identify 5 levels of notification with in each PI.

  • Define multiple PI’s per “View”.

  • Allows for the filtering of data based on a PI Level.  For example, just display all of the Jobs in which the Actual Costs are more than 115% of the Estimated Cost (or the Standard Cost).

Zero Programming Skills Required

  • Tired of the countless “report-writing” tools, which even after purchased, still require you to create your report?  “It looked easy in the demo”.

  • Cost Calculator runs “out-of-the-box”.  Start getting results immediately.

  • Default Views are delivered with the System and they can be easily changed.

  • Each Data Element is pre-configured to pull and present the M2M Data effectively.  The user just needs to know that they want the “Job Unit Cost” or the “Sales Order Price”.  Cost Calculator takes care of the rest.

Flexible

  • A Field Chooser enables each user to tailor the Default Views to their needs and choose the Data Elements they want to see.  Up to 300 data elements are available.

  • Users can control the Data Elements displayed, the Headings, the Width, the Order, the Aggregate Mode (i.e. Total this Column or Average this Column).

  • Users can change the Performance Indicators, Levels, and Alert Colors.

  • Users can save up to 5 “sub-views” for each main view, tailored for specific tasks, each having it’s own Data Elements, PI’s, and Sorts.

  • Print and Export Data easily.

Cost-Effective

  • For well less than cost of one (1) user license in M2M, you can get the complete system for unlimited users.

  • Streamlines month-end activities.  No need to export data to Excel.

  • Allows access to your data, without consuming additional user licenses.