Statement: a correct cost price per hour for man and machine leads to insight into the order and operating result. Experience shows that in practice the order and operating result almost never match. You can prevent this. MKG contains the BCO module for this purpose: budgeting, control, optimizing. In this webinar you will be introduced to BCO. In half an hour you will be taken through the steps you need to take in MKG to create a realistic budget and an executable operating plan.

Direct costs are costs that can be directly attributed to a product or service. These costs are directly related to the production of a specific product or the delivery of a specific service. Examples of direct costs include direct labor costs, for example hours, direct material costs, and direct production costs. Direct costs can be easily assigned to a specific product or service, unlike indirect costs.

Labor efficiency refers to the actual labor hours spent on producing goods or services in relation to the planned labor hours. It is often used as a measure of production process efficiency and can be calculated by dividing the actual labor hours spent by the planned labor hours. A high labor efficiency indicates efficient labor utilization, while a low labor efficiency may indicate inefficiency or delays in the production process.

Productivity is a measure indicating how much output can be produced with a certain input. Output usually refers to the total production or added value of a company, a sector, or the entire economy. The input can be divided into labor, capital, and intermediate consumption, which includes the use of energy, materials, and services. There are different types of productivity, such as labor productivity, capital productivity, and multifactor productivity. Labor productivity measures the amount of output per unit of labor.

The man-machine ratio (MMR) is the ratio between the number of hours a machine can run with or without an operator. For example, if half a man-hour is required for each machine hour, then the man-machine ratio is 0.5 (also known as man per machine). In ERP, you enter the MMR in the 'Operations' table for each operation.

Coverage is about covering your direct and indirect costs based on your cost price. The goal is to use a cost price that covers all incurred and future costs.

BCO helps you to increase your insight into the financial situation of your company and puts you in a better position to determine your cost price. Do you have knowledge of cost prices and do you know the BCO modules? In this article you will find a step-by-step plan to easily set up BCO.

Once BCO has been set up, you can start monitoring the budgets. The various BCO Dashboards serve this purpose. Budget control based on these dashboards is central to this article. In addition, a number of scenarios arising from the design of BCO are discussed.

The standard dashboard 'BCO Man-hours Monitoring' can be used to monitor the extent to which the set budgets correspond to the actual hours worked by your employees. See how productivity and hours efficiency have developed throughout the year and how they relate to what you have budgeted.

BCO stands for Budgeting, Controlling, Optimizing. BCO helps you increase your insight into your company's financial situation and enables you to better determine your cost price. By budgeting your hours and costs now, you will fully cover your business expenses for the coming year with direct and indirect hours, and you will maintain the alignment between order result and business result.

How many hours will I run my machines next year? What does that mean for man-hours? By entering a number of variables you can easily budget all your operations. Per period you can see the budget machine hours and the required man-hours at a glance. This article shows you how to budget your operations.

What does an employee cost me per hour and does his hourly rate still match the job group? You can answer these questions based on the workable hours by entering the labor costs of all employees for an entire fiscal year. In this article you can read how to determine the costs of your employees.

Based on the allocated budgets for all employees and all operations, you fill in the Occupancy Plan, a matrix in which you indicate who is expected to do what for the coming year. You use the Coverage Plan to divide all costs, except labor costs, over the direct and indirect operations and to divide all indirect hours over the direct operations.

By creating an overview of the total number of working hours for an entire fiscal year, you determine your return on hours. This makes it possible to calculate your minimum hourly rate and you are able to better monitor your budgets. This article shows you how to create this overview.

The standard dashboard 'BCO Coverage and Occupancy Monitoring' can be used to monitor the extent to which the set budgets correspond with the realized direct hours, the man-machine ratio, and the coverage. This also allows monitoring of the extent to which costs are covered by the realized direct hours. These are visible both graphically and in grids.

The purpose of the standard dashboard 'BCO Exploitation Plan' is to gain insight into the setup of budgeting for the operations in BCO. Based on the budgeted hours and the costs of the operations, the net price is compared with the price configured for the operation.

The standard dashboard 'BCO Employee Plan' provides insight into which employees are included in the BCO employee labor costs and gives an overview of the labor costs, social charges, and the net rate. Additionally, some key figures related to the selected employees are visible.

To convert data from your database into relevant management information, MKG5 offers dozens of interactive dashboards. This article covers the general operation of the standard dashboards. A specific explanation is also available for each dashboard.