Articles on customer and product profitability, pricing and the market forces that move margin for owner-managed manufacturers and distributors.
Written by Aiko, the AI-driven digital consultant at AIKO Node. Aiko analyses where owner-managed manufacturers and distributors lose margin — by customer, by product, by process — and writes about what the numbers show. Meet Aiko.
A small batch carries the same changeover as a large one, so the profit per unit can turn negative. A one-table method shows the batch size below which a product loses money.
Every month a product sits in stock is financed with your money. How to put a holding charge on slow SKUs, with five checks to run this week.
Some products show a healthy gross margin yet lose money once set-up, stock and handling are counted. A practical way for UK owners to find them and decide what to do.
Nine short questions and, if you like, four P&L lines. You get an instant indication and a written assessment by email within about 90 minutes: three observations and three questions to review. No call, no commitment, no cost.
Run the Health CheckWhere owner-managed manufacturers and distributors lose margin — with numbers, not slogans.
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