Revenue and costs lived in different systems.
Answering what the business actually made on an order required separate exports, lookups and reconciliations across product cost, freight, fees and advertising.
of analyst time returned daily
Result from this project, not a promise for every business.Work passed from task to task.
- Export sales
- Find product and freight costs
- Reconcile fees and advertising
- Rebuild order profit
Every order now has a traceable profitability record.
- Collect sales and costs
- Allocate charges to orders
- Flag missing evidence
- Publish traceable profit
Real profit calculated at individual order level.
A single ledger joins the complete sales history with attributable costs while preserving the source and reconciliation status of every figure.
- 01
Created an immutable order-level sales ledger
- 02
Joined product cost, freight, payment and advertising data
- 03
Retained source and reconciliation status for every cost
- 04
Added controls for missing and late source information
Commercial decisions are now based on real order profit.
Thousands of pounds in order-level errors were captured and corrected. The business can now focus on growing profitable sales because pricing, buying, advertising and delivery decisions use attributable profit rather than headline revenue.
Figures relate to this project. We would estimate your opportunity from your own process and volumes.This is a genuine project for a business whose identity and internal data are not published. The step-by-step illustration explains the process; it is not a screenshot or a live demo of the client’s systems.
Published by WeekFound Ltd. WeekFound was founded by Jake Lawton after more than ten years working across finance, operations and process improvement. Read Jake’s background.
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