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# Improve Your Product Costing

[![Picture of Philip Oakley](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/f39ccd0693a897926e023dcfed92cd29) Philip Oakley](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/author/philip-oakley) :  Jul 22, 2024, 7:20:00 AM

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![Improve Your Product Costing](https://www.outserve.co.uk/hubfs/4-May-21-2024-05-36-39-9282-PM.png)

Using spreadsheets (cough) for managing Bills of Materials is just a bit grim, isn’t it? Feels rather 2004…

We completely appreciate spreadsheets can have their place (in 2004), but in the world of eCommerce, they can be outdated, slow, and error prone.

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You spend so much effort entering a formula, checking the data, and dealing with version history – and you still wind up with incorrect product costing, unreliable quotes, or diminished profit margins.

Lacking real-time visibility into the latest BOMs (not those sort of bombs! We mean “Bill of Materials”) and costs puts you and your business at real risk of pricing products in a way that might lead to serious future problems.

And we both know that Future You doesn’t deserve that.

That’s why, at Outserve, we love Unleashed’s Inventory Management Software – so you can say goodbye to these challenges and take control of your product costs.

Unleashed provides complete digital BOM management for transparent product cost roll-ups.

[![Improve your product costing](https://www.outserve.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-05-21%20at%2018.34.20.png?width=2704&height=1516&name=Screenshot%202024-05-21%20at%2018.34.20.png)](https://youtu.be/Bp6tn5f3PNQ)

You can easily see the real-time costs of every component and operation to get an accurate total cost picture – those automated roll-ups reduce manual effort, while increasing accuracy.

Unleashed also integrates seamlessly with your accounting software (like Xero and Quickbooks) and other supply chain systems, providing end-to-end visibility into your product costs.

Their APIs even allow syncing BOM data as a single source of truth across your business applications – no more second guessing or worrying about hidden data.

Make better decisions on the daily, with valuable insights thanks to Unleashed's analytics, including cost breakdowns and historical trends.

And if you’re worried about going over budget? We’ve got a tool for that too – and can help you easily track budgets versus actual costs, during production runs.

[![Improve Your Product Costing](https://www.outserve.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202024-05-21%20at%2018.34.52.png?width=2718&height=1502&name=Screenshot%202024-05-21%20at%2018.34.52.png)](https://youtu.be/Bp6tn5f3PNQ)

It might sound complex, but together, getting you started with Unleashed is easy.

By starting with people-focused upfront planning, we work to pilot best practices that ensure a smooth launch.

But it doesn’t stop there, Manufacturers!

Unleashed offers awesome capabilities for product manufacturing businesses, including enhanced traceability with batch and serial number tracking, quality control and compliance features, efficient recall management, and data-driven product lifecycle insights.

And you want integrations I hear you say?

Well, we offer:

- Shopify and WooCommerce for superior Ecommerce integration
- Amazon integration for FBM and FBA
- Lightspeed and Vend, for those lucky enough to have real stores
- Salesforce and Prospectsoft CRM for a complete end to end view of your customers

But that’s not all!

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We have

- EDI integrations
- Courier integrations
- Reporting integration including Microsoft PowerBI

Yeah, we told you it was awesome.

So take control of your product costs and let Unleashed unlock the full potential of your manufacturing business, with Outserve. Get in touch today.

 

[![Automated Stock Count](https://www.outserve.co.uk/hubfs/3-May-21-2024-05-24-56-8286-PM.png)](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/automated-stock-count)

#### [Automated Stock Count](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/automated-stock-count)

[![Picture of Philip Oakley](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/f39ccd0693a897926e023dcfed92cd29) Philip Oakley](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/author/philip-oakley) : Jul 8, 2024, 7:19:11 AM

Automated Stock Count with Unleashed's Inventory Management Software streamlines stocktaking processes, offering real-time visibility, accuracy, and...

[Unleashed](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/tag/unleashed)

[Read More](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/automated-stock-count)

[![Quickly enhance your Shopify store with intelligent inventory management](https://www.outserve.co.uk/hubfs/e-commerce-online-shopping-1.jpeg)](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/quickly-enhance-your-shopify-store-with-intelligent-inventory-management)

#### [Quickly enhance your Shopify store with intelligent inventory management](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/quickly-enhance-your-shopify-store-with-intelligent-inventory-management)

[Admin](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/author/admin) : Nov 17, 2020, 1:46:13 PM

Shopify is incredibly user-friendly and provides you with flexibility and control, therefore, ensuring that the inventory management matches the...

[Integration](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/tag/integration) [Inventory](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/tag/inventory) [Unleashed](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/tag/unleashed) [Shopify](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/tag/shopify)

[Read More](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/quickly-enhance-your-shopify-store-with-intelligent-inventory-management)

[![How to increase your B2B sales with Unleashed](https://www.outserve.co.uk/hubfs/inventory+laptop-Feb-21-2022-12-05-36-72-PM.png)](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/increase-b2b-sales-unleashed)

#### [How to increase your B2B sales with Unleashed](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/increase-b2b-sales-unleashed)

[Admin](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/author/admin) : Nov 15, 2018, 2:21:59 PM

B2B companies (including manufacturers and wholesalers) are now looking to e-commerce platforms to help them increase their sales – and early...

[Inventory](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/tag/inventory) [Unleashed](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/tag/unleashed) [Sales](https://www.outserve.co.uk/blog/tag/sales)

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