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Profitability & Cost Management

Drive efficiency in your business by knowing your operating margin and net margin by customer, product, and channel. The PlaidCloud Profitability & Cost Management solution calculates and shares customer profitability and product profitability information.

Profitability & cost management dashboard

Trusted by Finance Teams at Leading Organizations

AmeriPride
Delaware Life
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Axalta Coating Systems
Mirion Technologies
AmeriPride
Delaware Life
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Axalta Coating Systems
Mirion Technologies

What is Profitability and Cost Management Software?

From Raw ERP Data to Fully Loaded Net Margin

  • Automates the full allocation process from raw ERP data to net margin by customer, product, and channel
  • Profitability models your finance team controls. Not your IT department
  • Connected directly to your ERP, reconciled to your general ledger, runs automatically at close
Profitability and cost management dashboards

Build an Accurate & Detailed View of Enterprise Profitability

Operating Margin and Net Margin for Every Unit of Sale

  • Move from a gross margin mindset to accurate, repeatable operating and net margin
  • Calculate margin by customer, product, and channel
  • Data-driven, repeatable, and audit-ready by design
Profitability lifecycle from raw revenue through net profit

Profitability Lifecycle

Use case walk-through. The profit made by selling 1 machine of product type Mac_1, distributed to CompCo Salt Lake City, part of an order of 5,000 units total.

Discounts

5% point-of-sale discount + 2% quarterly volume rebate

Sales Cost

40 hours of sales-team time and 4 business trips to CompCo

Production Cost

Mac_1 took 2 hours in plant 4; Part B 8.97% utilized

Fulfillment Cost

Product delivered by courier; carrier capacity 65%

Net Profit

Final reconciled margin after all allocations

Build Complete Profitability & Cost Management Models

Automate Managerial Accounting From End to End

  • Activity-based costing and driver-based allocations
  • Accurate, timely cost allocations
  • Customer profitability and product profitability in one model
Full Stacked Margin Transparency, S&OP Analytics, Operational Efficiency cards

Build Multi-Dimensional Costing & Profitability Models

Country by Country Reporting (CbCR)

Report revenue, profit, and other key measures by country.

Segmented P&L Reporting

Real-time analytics let teams monitor cost data continuously and make timely pricing decisions.

Increased Efficiency

Automated allocations free finance teams from manual spreadsheets.

Improved Scalability

Petabyte-ready foundations handle growing transaction volumes without performance loss.

Build Profitability Models That Finance Teams Can Trust

Defensible, Auditable, Explainable

  • Every allocation traces back to the source rows that drove it
  • Version-controlled models. Finance owns the math
  • Reconciled to the GL so the boardroom and the close room agree
Profitability monitoring chart

Allocate Costs, Monitor & Visualize Profit

OPEX Allocations

Automate operating-expense allocations across cost centers.

Global Cost Visualization

See cost flow across legal entities, regions, and segments.

Cost Trends

Trend cost movements over time with drill-back to source.

Profit Monitoring

Live profit dashboards by customer, product, and channel.

OPEX allocations color-bar chart

Key Benefits

Why Finance Teams Pick PlaidCloud

OPEX Allocations

Driver-based allocations across the enterprise.

Multi-Dimensional Analysis

Customer, product, channel, region, and entity dimensions together.

Configurability

Point-and-click configuration; no IT tickets to change a rule.

Traceability

Every output traces back to its source rows.

Start with a Conversation

30 minutes. Your ERP. A walkthrough of what PlaidCloud surfaces that your current reporting can't.

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