Financial Planning

Financial planning tools help you analyze costs, profitability, and optimize financial performance.

Overview

Financial planning includes:

• COGS Analysis: Cost of goods sold analysis
• Cost-to-Serve: Calculate cost-to-serve metrics
• Gross Profit: Gross profit analysis
• Inventory Holding Costs: Carrying cost calculations
• EOQ: Economic order quantity optimization

COGS Analysis

Analyze cost of goods sold to understand:

• COGS by Product: Cost of goods sold by product
• COGS Trends: COGS trends over time
• COGS by Location: COGS by location
• COGS by Channel: COGS by channel

Viewing COGS Analysis

1. Navigate to Decide → Financial Planning → COGS Analysis
2. Select time range and filters
3. Review COGS metrics and trends
4. Use insights for pricing and planning decisions

Cost-to-Serve

Calculate cost-to-serve metrics to understand:

• Total Cost-to-Serve: Total cost to serve customers
• Cost by Channel: Cost-to-serve by channel
• Cost by Location: Cost-to-serve by location
• Cost by Product: Cost-to-serve by product

Viewing Cost-to-Serve

1. Navigate to Decide → Financial Planning → Cost-to-Serve
2. Select time range and filters
3. Review cost-to-serve metrics
4. Use insights for channel and location optimization

Gross Profit

Analyze gross profit to understand:

• Gross Profit by Product: Gross profit by product
• Gross Profit Margin: Gross profit margin percentage
• Gross Profit Trends: Gross profit trends over time
• Gross Profit by Channel: Gross profit by channel

Viewing Gross Profit

1. Navigate to Decide → Financial Planning → Gross Profit
2. Select time range and filters
3. Review gross profit metrics
4. Use insights for product and pricing decisions

Inventory Holding Costs

Calculate inventory holding costs to understand:

• Total Holding Costs: Total cost of holding inventory
• Holding Cost by Product: Holding cost by product
• Holding Cost by Location: Holding cost by location
• Holding Cost Trends: Holding cost trends over time

Viewing Holding Costs

1. Navigate to Decide → Financial Planning → Inventory Holding Costs
2. Select time range and filters
3. Review holding cost metrics
4. Use insights for inventory optimization

Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)

Calculate optimal order quantities to minimize total costs:

• EOQ by Product: Optimal order quantity by product
• Total Cost: Total cost (ordering + holding)
• Order Frequency: Optimal order frequency

Using EOQ

1. Navigate to Decide → Financial Planning → EOQ
2. Select products for EOQ calculation
3. Review optimal order quantities
4. Use for replenishment planning

Common Workflows

Analyzing Product Profitability

1. Navigate to Decide → Financial Planning
2. Review COGS and gross profit by product
3. Identify high and low profitability products
4. Adjust pricing or product mix

Optimizing Channel Costs

1. Navigate to Decide → Financial Planning → Cost-to-Serve
2. Review cost-to-serve by channel
3. Identify high-cost channels
4. Optimize channel operations

Planning Inventory Investment

1. Navigate to Decide → Financial Planning → Inventory Holding Costs
2. Review holding costs
3. Use EOQ to optimize order quantities
4. Balance holding costs with ordering costs

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Related Pages

• Replenishment Planner
• Planning Recommendations
• Stock Analytics

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