Costs move. Demand changes. Your forecast needs to keep up.
Give finance and operational teams a shared structure for the figures and assumptions behind product performance and the next planning cycle.
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Explain what drives margin
Review revenue and relevant costs across products, customers or plants, using the detail available from your systems to explain performance.
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Plan for changing inputs
Review how changes in pricing, sales volumes, material costs and labour assumptions affect the forecast and expected financial results.
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Connect finance and operations
Bring agreed financial and production measures into consistent reporting views, so teams can discuss performance using the same figures.
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Bring the group together
Build reporting across entities and business units, with mappings and consolidation rules agreed for your organisation.
A closer look at Solver
From production detail to the next decision.
Explore genuine manufacturing templates from Solver’s Marketplace. Your reporting outputs, source information and planning process shape the solution your team needs.
Genuine Solver Marketplace templates. Illustrative data and terminology.
Review production performance in one view
Bring selected production measures into a dashboard so finance and operational teams can review trends and discuss the figures that matter to them.
Start with a finance requirement that matters to you.
Your products, systems and manufacturing processes shape the approach. We begin with the output you need and the information, people and assumptions behind it.
Identify the margin report, budget, production forecast or consolidation, its source information and the people who contribute.
02 · Explore the right structure
Review your product dimensions, cost categories, entities, planning drivers and review responsibilities.
03 · See how Solver could support it
Use a relevant manufacturing scenario to explore the reports, planning inputs and workflow your team would need.
Customer story
See how a manufacturer uses Solver.
Explore the requirements and experience behind this international customer story.
Manufacturing · Business Central
Moving beyond manual reporting and budgeting
Phoenix Mecano needed more reporting and budgeting capability than its standard ERP tools provided. The team chose Solver to support its annual budget process and improve financial reporting.
Explore how the implementation team adapted templates to the customer’s requirements and supported the rollout.
Useful starting points for a conversation about fit, scope and implementation.
Can reporting reflect our products, plants and cost structure?
Reports can be configured around relevant dimensions such as products, customers, plants, cost categories and entities. Your required outputs and the information available in your source systems determine the appropriate structure.
Can we use information from our existing ERP and operational systems?
Solver UK reviews your ERP and other required sources to establish the appropriate integration, data mapping and update approach. We agree which financial and operational measures need to be brought into reporting.
Can we model changes in pricing, volumes and input costs?
Planning models can reflect the drivers and assumptions your team needs to review. We discuss how pricing, production volumes, material costs and labour assumptions should feed the forecast, and who will update and review them.
Does Solver replace our production or ERP system?
Solver supports reporting, planning, forecasting and consolidation alongside your existing systems. Your ERP and production systems continue to provide the operational information needed for agreed finance outputs.
What would implementation and pricing involve?
Scope depends on the reports, data sources, planning models, users and workflows required. A requirements discussion helps Solver UK outline the work, involvement and proposal relevant to your business.
Resources for your evaluation
Make your next conversation more useful.
Share a manufacturing guide or explore financial consolidation with your colleagues. Both open directly as PDFs.
SOLVER · PDFManufacturing guide
Whitepaper · 23 pages
Where could Solver fit in manufacturing?
An earlier industry guide with reporting and planning examples. Product details may have changed since publication.
