When cost models fall behind: A CFO’s guide to adaptive strategy
Jun 6, 2025 · Costing strategies help businesses adjust, predict costs, and make smarter decisions. By evolving outdated methods, companies can protect margins, stay competitive, and improve returns …
Cost and Margin Intelligence | Plante Moran
Is a sluggish, inaccurate quoting process costing you new business? Whether implementing or optimizing commercially available quoting and estimating software, or developing a Microsoft Excel …
Cost to serve: Improve decision-making, competitiveness, and ...
Jul 10, 2025 · Traditionally, costing focuses on purchasing and manufacturing conversion costs. Cost to serve (CTS) takes that a step further and employs key systems and an activity-based approach to …
Auto suppliers: Do your cost estimating practices need a tune up?
Mar 17, 2025 · Learn how a solid costing approach can help maintain supplier profitability in today’s competitive automotive sector.
The art of SKU rationalization: Getting accurate costing data
Apr 22, 2024 · So, where do you start? The key to successful SKU rationalization is to begin with accurate product cost information and sales data. All too often, SKU rationalization is suboptimal or …
When costing mistakes eat into food business margins
Oct 30, 2023 · Plante Moran’s food and beverage experts explore symptoms of inaccurate costing and root causes you may be missing in your cost and pricing decisions. Take advantage of an informed …
Cost and margin intelligence solutions for automotive supplier
Mar 26, 2024 · Improvement of product costing decision support information. By providing insights into their product margin analysis, the supplier can make confident decisions on pricing, make/buy and …
Improved costing solves issues for global medical device supplier
Aug 8, 2023 · Improved costing and estimating approach identifies and remediates issues for a top ten global medical device supplier for over 130,000 various products.
Fighting inflation? Strategies to justify cost recovery
Nov 10, 2022 · However, time and detail of cost data are two constraints that may drive the decision to use standard costing as a baseline or assign freight as a percent of material.
Inventory management and costing: Finding efficiencies and increasing ...
To increase your organization’s quality and security, consider these seven lean strategies regarding inventory management/costing process and controls.