The Information Factory has teamed up with Logistics Business to produce an end-to-end costing eBook.

Understanding your key cost drivers, from end to end, provides a solid basis for understanding and managing your business. This is especially important in industries such as logistics where there’s a lot of complexity, many variables and margins are tight.

The eBook argues that costing data shouldn’t just be something used by the finance department.

Sales teams can use costing data to identify unprofitable clients and devise remedial actions to return the account to profit.

An end to end view of costs empowers Pricing teams to offer spot rate and dynamic pricing.

And, Operations need detailed visibility on their fixed and variable costs and ops cost per move, so they can understand the implications of adding more resources to support a particular activity. And to push back when over eager Sales teams want extra services provided to a client for free…

Click here to visit the Logistics Business website and download the 6 page eBook for free.