Know the True Cost of Every Product You Sell
Most costing sheets are out of date the day after they are made. Our AI pulls raw material, labour, overhead and freight together from your own systems, keeps the number current as prices move, and tells you where your margin is thin.
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A stale costing sheet quietly eats your margin
When the real cost of a product is wrong, every price built on it is wrong too. The gap only shows up once the money is already gone.
Count everything the product actually costs
Material and labour are easy to see. Overhead, freight, duties and handling are the parts that get left out, and they are often where the margin goes. The AI adds them all in, so the figure reflects what a product really costs to have ready to sell.
- Raw material, labour and overhead in one place.
- Freight, duties and landed costs included.
- A cost you can price against with confidence.
Costs that update themselves when prices move
A supplier raises a price, freight goes up, a wage rate changes. Instead of waiting for someone to rebuild the sheet, the AI reflects the change and updates the affected products, so the cost you look at today is the cost as it stands today.
- Price changes flow through on their own.
- No waiting on a monthly rebuild.
- Every product stays current, not just the top ones.
Every product cost is built from four layers
The AI puts these together for each product and shows how the total is made up, so nothing is hidden inside one lump figure.
From your records to a costing you can trust
The cost layers most sheets leave out
These are the numbers that quietly change the answer. The AI accounts for each one so the total holds up.
Material cost
Components and inputs priced from your latest purchases, not a figure someone typed in last year.
Labour cost
The real work per unit from your production data, so busy and slow runs are both reflected fairly.
Overhead share
Running costs spread across products on a basis you control, instead of a blanket mark-up.
Freight and duty
Inbound freight, duties and handling folded in, so imported and local items are compared honestly.
Wastage and scrap
Yield loss and scrap counted where they apply, so the cost matches what you actually consume.
Price movement
Recent supplier and rate changes carried through, so a rising cost shows up before it hurts.
What a trustworthy costing gives finance
Why teams choose TCB Infotech for cost automation
Product cost calculation questions
What does AI product cost calculation do?
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Does it include freight and landed cost?
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What Is Inside AI Product Cost Calculation
It is a working part of your finance process, not a one-off report. Here is what it does with your data, how it stays current, and what your team gets out of it.
From your own numbers to a costing you can act on
Every layer of cost, added up per product
Material, labour, overhead and freight are combined for each product from your own records. Duties, handling and yield loss are counted where they apply, so the figure is the real cost of having that product ready to sell.
- Material, labour and overhead in one figure.
- Freight, duty and handling included.
- A breakdown that shows how the total is built.
The number moves when your costs move
When a supplier price, freight rate or wage changes, the AI carries it through to the products it affects. There is no monthly rebuild and no waiting on one person, so the cost you look at is the cost as it stands now.
- Price changes flow through automatically.
- Every product stays current, not just the top sellers.
- No stale sheet quietly steering your prices.
See where the margin is thin before it hurts
Once the true cost is known, it is compared against your selling price for every product. The AI flags the ones where the margin is thin or slipping, so finance acts on the risk early instead of finding it after the quarter closes.
- Cost against price for each product.
- Thin and slipping margins flagged early.
- A clear list of what to review first.
Everything the costing delivers
True landed cost
Material, labour, overhead and freight combined into one real cost per product.
Costs kept current
Price and rate changes flow through on their own, so no product runs on an old figure.
Margin alerts
Products with thin or slipping margins flagged, so finance sees the risk early.
Cost breakdown
Every total shows how it was built, so each figure can be traced and trusted.
Works from your ERP
It reads your purchase, production and finance data, so the costing reflects your business.
Model-agnostic build
No lock-in to a single AI model or vendor. The costing logic stays yours to run.