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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

Already Autism Health
Axalta Coating Systems
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
Kimberly-Clark
Mirion Technologies
Saputo
Unio Specialty Care
USESI (U.S. Electrical Services)
Already Autism Health
Axalta Coating Systems
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
Kimberly-Clark
Mirion Technologies
Saputo
Unio Specialty Care
USESI (U.S. Electrical Services)

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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