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Business analytics for manufacturers
In manufacturing the number that matters most is unit cost — and it is almost never held in one system. These reports bring accounting, production data and standards into a single view.
Accounting vs analytics
Accounting
In manufacturing the number that matters most — unit cost — is almost never held in one system. Materials come from the accounts, hours from production, the standards often live in an Excel file, and the answer arrives a month later.
MaterialsLabour hoursStandards held in ExcelEquipment downtime = a single number?
Business analytics
An analytics system joins those sources and recalculates automatically. Only then can you see which products earn, which are being sold below cost, and what the equipment downtime is costing.
Rivilė / FinvaldaProduction management system
Joined up overnight Unit cost without working it out by hand The figures worth watching
Unit cost
Materials, labour and overhead per unit. Without it, pricing rests on averages — and an average hides the products that lose money.
Plan against actual
Standard costs against what was actually consumed. A persistent variance means either the standard is out of date or the process changed without anyone noticing.
Material loss and scrap
Scrap rate by product, shift and machine. It usually concentrates in a few very specific places.
Equipment utilisation
How much of the time the equipment is actually running, and how much it stands idle for changeovers, repairs or missing materials.
Production cycle time
From order to finished goods. A lengthening cycle means more cash tied up in work in progress.
Inventory levels
Raw materials, work in progress and finished goods kept apart — three quite different ways of tying up cash.
How it looks in the report
How to read the report
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Unit cost
Unit cost is broken into its parts — materials, labour and overhead. That view shows at once whether raw materials got more expensive or labour costs rose, and whether any product now exceeds its average selling price.
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Scrap and cycle time
Material loss and scrap are broken down by product, and cycle time tracks how many days an order takes to become finished goods. A lengthening cycle means more cash tied up in work in progress.
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Equipment and inventory
Equipment utilisation separates running time from changeovers and downtime — three different things that look identical in a single percentage. Inventory is shown separately for raw materials, work in progress and finished goods.
Where the data comes from
- the accounting system
- the production management system (MES or ERP), where there is one
- standards and process sheets, often held in Excel
- machine data, where it is collected
Read access The connection is read-only — the reports read your data, change nothing, and never write back to your systems.
What people usually notice first
- 1 Manufacturing usually needs a custom solution, because the data comes from several systems and the standards nearly always live somewhere separate.
- 2 In practice, then, you start with the financial side using a ready-built set, and add the production measures as a second stage — once it is clear which of them actually get used.
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Where to start
Most people start with a ready-built report set, which connects to your accounting system within a few days, and add the industry-specific reports as a second stage. Describe your situation and we will tell you what would work best in your case.