HIDDEN LEAK #01 · COSTING
You Know Your Total Turnover. Do You Know Which Jobs Actually Made You Money?
1 of 24 leaks diagnosed
20–30%of jobs run at zero or negative margin
Nobody notices until the year-end P&L. needs real data
⚠️The Problem
Costing happens once, at quotation stage. Nobody tracks actual material, wastage and machine-hours consumed against that estimate once the job goes to press.
💥The Impact
- Next year's pricing gets set off a P&L that hides which products and clients are unprofitable
- Sales keeps chasing high-turnover, low-margin clients because nobody flags them
- Repeat orders get quoted at old rates that no longer cover actual cost
🔍Root Cause
Job costs are tracked in three separate places, an Excel sheet, a paper job card, and the accountant's book, and they never match up.
🔧The Fix
The fix isn't trying harder, it's tracking real costs at the same detail as the estimate, automatically, for every job.
✅The Solution
- Job-wise actual vs. estimated cost capture: material, wastage, machine time, labour
- Real-time profit/loss by job, client and product category
- Automatic alerts when actual cost trends over quoted cost mid-run
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Monthly job count150
Per job₹60,000
% of jobs20%
Illustrative annual exposure ₹1.08 Cr A directional estimate only, your real exposure comes from job-wise actual-vs-estimate tracking.
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