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Finance. The margin was decided in week three, by someone choosing a fabric with no cost on screen. Finance meets it in month five.
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A costing that arrives at the end is a report, not a control
By the time the spreadsheet lands, the fabric has been chosen, the freight has been estimated by whoever was asked, and the price has been set in a meeting where neither number was on the table. Everything in the file is a description of decisions already taken.
The second problem is provenance. A figure in a costing sheet is worth what your ability to explain where it came from is worth, and most of them cannot be traced without finding the person who typed them.
Cost while it is still a decision
Components, freight and duties assemble the landed cost during development, so the margin is visible at the point somebody can still choose differently.
Assumptions held as data
Rates, freight percentages and duties sit on the record rather than inside a formula in one analyst's file, which is also what makes them reviewable.
Every number traceable to its component
A cost that changed can be pointed at: which line moved, whose price, on what quantity.
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Management
You can know where the season is, or you can wait until Thursday. Usually not both.
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The report is a year of small recordings nobody made, compressed into the fortnight before a deadline.
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The fortnight that sets the cost, the margin and the drop date is the fortnight with none of that on screen.
See howSee it on a real season. A live walk through the product on a worked season, with your own way of working in mind.
- One article end to end: colourways, components, suppliers, costs.
- The board, the tech pack and the BOM on that one style.
- What moving your current season across would take.
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