Is our actual COGS running more than 5% over budget year-to-date, and which product categories are the biggest contributors to the variance?
Track cost of goods against plan to catch procurement cost overruns and protect gross margin targets.
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Is our actual COGS running more than 5% over budget year-to-date, and which product categories are the biggest contributors to the variance?
Bruin connects to your Inventory/ERP, Data Warehouse and runs the analysis automatically.
It tracks COGS variance %, budget vs actual by category, gross margin impact and delivers the answer in seconds, in Slack, Discord, Teams, Google Chat, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, or your browser.
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