Landed Cost Dashboard

The Landed Cost Dashboard provides a comprehensive and centralized view of all additional expenses incurred during the procurement process. It allows users to monitor key metrics, track cost fluctuations, and analyze the financial impact of landed costs on product margins and inventory valuation. With real-time insights and visual analytics, businesses can optimize their supply chain and make data-driven decisions.

Main Features:

• Comprehensive filtering options to analyze data by date, vendor, product, and warehouse.
• Real-time KPI cards for total landed cost, customs duty, insurance, and freight charges.
• Smart insights into vendor performance and shipment efficiency scores.
• Anomaly detection to identify unusual cost variations and receive warnings.

Filters And Exports On The Dashboard

The top of the dashboard exposes filters for date range, company, vendor, warehouse, shipment, product, purchase order, currency, and landed-cost type, plus Export PDF and Export Excel buttons and a Reset shortcut.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Monitor essential KPIs such as total landed cost, average cost per shipment, and margin impact at a glance.

Trends and Cost Breakdowns

Track monthly cost trends and visualize the distribution of cost components like shipping and handling.

Multidimensional Analysis

Analyze landed cost impact across multiple dimensions including shipments, vendors, products, and warehouses.

Smart Insights And Anomaly Detection

A side panel forecasts next month's landed cost, scores vendor performance, flags anomalies on costly shipments, and surfaces plain-language warnings so the team knows what to look at first.

Shipment Analysis

Shipment Analysis allows users to deep-dive into each individual transfer to understand the exact breakdown of additional costs. It provides a detailed comparison between the former cost and the final cost after applying landed expenses, ensuring full transparency in inventory valuation.

Main Features:

• Detailed list view of all shipments with former and additional landed cost breakdown.
• Multidimensional pivot analysis to group shipments by vendor, date, or warehouse.
• Margin impact calculation per shipment to understand profitability changes.

Detailed Shipment List

View a detailed list of all shipments with former cost, additional landed cost, and margin impact details.

Pivot Analysis

Use pivot analysis to perform multidimensional tracking of shipments based on various categories.

Visual Analytics

Visualize landed cost distribution across shipments using interactive stacked bar charts.

Vendor Analysis

Vendor Analysis focuses on evaluating how different suppliers impact your total landed costs. By grouping expenses by vendor, businesses can identify which partners are most cost-effective and which ones contribute to higher additional charges like shipping or customs.

Main Features:

• Grouped analysis of landed costs by vendor to identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Track vendor performance metrics like shipment efficiency and average additional cost.

Vendor-Wise Grouping

Analyze landed cost data grouped by vendor to identify which suppliers impact your costs the most.

Multidimensional Tracking

Utilize pivot views to compare vendor performance across different time periods and warehouses.

Vendor Cost Comparison

View vendor-wise cost distribution through clear and easy-to-understand bar charts.

Product Cost Analysis

This analysis provides a granular view of how additional expenses are distributed at the product level. It helps in understanding the true cost of each item by including all landed expenses, which is crucial for setting accurate selling prices and maintaining healthy margins.

Main Features:

• Detailed breakdown of additional costs per product unit.
• Identify products with the highest additional cost impact for better pricing strategies.

Product Unit Cost Breakdown

Review how landed costs are distributed across individual products to understand true unit costs.

Inventory Valuation Insights

Perform in-depth product cost analysis using pivot tables for better inventory valuation.

Product-Wise Visual Impact

Visualize product-wise cost impact through interactive bar charts for quick decision-making.

Delay Analysis

Delay Analysis tracks the efficiency of your supply chain by monitoring shipment delays. It helps identify patterns in delayed transfers and calculates the number of delay days, allowing businesses to address bottlenecks and improve overall operational performance.

Main Features:

• Track delayed shipment counts and analyze their impact on the procurement cycle.
• Use advanced filters and grouping to identify root causes of shipment delays.

Shipment Delay Tracking

Access a dedicated list of shipments to track delays and calculate precise delay days.

Advanced Filter Options

Use advanced filters and grouping options to quickly identify and organize delayed shipment records.

Financial Impact Analysis

Financial Impact Analysis provides a high-level overview of how landed costs affect the company's bottom line. By visualizing the overall financial burden of additional charges, businesses can better understand their operational expenses and optimize their financial planning.

Main Features:

• Visualize the overall financial impact of landed costs on business profitability.
• Gain high-level visibility for better financial reporting and budget allocation.

Profitability Analysis

Analyze the overall financial impact of additional charges through comprehensive visual charts and pivot reports.