31/05/2026
A chemical manufacturer recently discovered their margins had fallen from 14% to 7%.
But the issue had been happening for weeks. Nobody noticed earlier.
Do you know Why? Because production costs were being reviewed only after month-end reconciliation.
By then:
• RM prices had changed
• Yield losses had accumulated
• Utility consumption had increased
• Production inefficiencies were already absorbed
The business was reacting to historical information. Not operational reality.
The issue wasn't costing. It was decision latency.
Many manufacturers still operate with delayed visibility into actual production costs. Which means corrective action always comes late.
Real operational control starts when management can see while production is still running what is the:
• Actual batch cost
• Yield variance
• Consumption deviation
• Process loss
Because month-end visibility creates month-end decisions.
And late decisions become expensive decisions.
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