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.

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.

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.

Using the standard dashboard 'Employee Hours Analysis', you can analyze the hours recorded by employees. This provides insight into two key metrics: productivity and hours efficiency.