The module variant costing tool is part of the profitability suite of tools. It’s used for estimating direct cost of module variants. Here you will see for example the forecasted direct material cost and assembly cost. It also provides an aggregated total cost per sold unit of every module variant. So you can easily identify cost issues while still having time to counter them.

Complexity costing describes the costs that are caused by introducing new products and managing the variety of products produced. Many different products would cause a high cost of complexity, fewer and more similar products a low cost of complexity. The tool helps to understand the economy of scale and how products affect it.

In the module system profitability tool, all the cost, revenue and volume projections comes together to form a picture of the future profitability of the module system. And anytime somebody make a change to the module system, the profitability calculations are immediately updated to show the impact

The breakeven plan shows the level of volume at which the costs equal the revenues for a product. The tool can be used to develop alternative investment scenarios.

The profitability reports gives an overview of the profitability for a product portfolio. For business analysis the report provides information about variable, running and introduction costs, investments, revenues and contribution.

Volume is everything in production. Deciding on weather or not to introduce a new module variant requires at least a rough estimate of what investments are needed. In the Module Investment tool all sorts of production investments can be linked to module variants. The tool brings in volume estimates to then provide a good overview of how much each variant must carry.