Protecting Margin Through Smarter Capacity Decisions

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Production-based companies often lose margin not because of lack of demand, but because limited capacity is consumed by the wrong work. Low-value, high-complexity jobs absorb time and resources, while higher-value orders compete for production slots.

This dashboard transforms your existing operational and financial data into clear, actionable insights that improve pricing decisions, production prioritization, and estimate accuracy—without disrupting how you operate today. 

We focus on three practical pillars that drive profitability across sales, operations, and the production floor.

Not all customers create equal value. We evaluate customers based on Value and Complexity:

• Value — revenue and margin contribution 
• Complexity — effort, setup, and operational resources required
   

This enables you to:

• Apply pricing rules by customer tier
• Protect margins on complex work
• Focus capacity on customers that drive profitability
   

Give production teams clarity on what to run next.

Using job-level profitability and effort, we create a real-time prioritized backlog that:

• Ranks work orders objectively
• Removes guesswork from scheduling
• Directs capacity toward the highest-value jobs
   

Production decisions become consistent, transparent, and data-driven.

Price future work using real production history.

By comparing estimated vs. actual hours and costs, this approach helps you:

• Identify where quotes consistently miss
• Apply adjustment factors to future estimates 
• Improve margin accuracy over time
   

Better estimates mean stronger margins before production even begins.

• Uses data you already have
• No disruption to existing workflows
• Designed for real operational decisions, not static reports
• Aligns sales, operations, and production around the same metrics
   

• Improved pricing discipline
• Clear production priorities
• Higher estimate accuracy
• Better use of limited production capacity