Chainalytics’ Cost-to-Serve Analytics help you assign and account for the true cost of serving your customers and enable you to make informed decisions. This service provides a detailed analysis of all costs that impact your demand and supply strategies, so you can avoid making policy decisions or allocating resources that do not support your profitability objectives. We combine our expertise in supply chain modeling with the use of advanced activity-based costing tools to create the cost-to-serve of each product, channel, customer, or supplier in your portfolio — enabling you to expose hidden cost and profit opportunities at a detailed level. This service will augment and enhance the quality of Chainalytics’ Customer and Product Profitability service through more complete costing models.
Chainalytics’ Cost-to-Serve Analytics can help your firm improve costing accuracy and decision-making by effectively answering these questions:
- How can we effectively capture and maintain all costs associated with serving our customers?
- How do we accurately account for cost factors and assign them to individual products, customers, orders, or suppliers?
- How can we assign overhead and shared service costs based upon actual use of resources?
- How do we allocate sales, marketing, and general administrative costs?