Manufacturing

Shop Floor to Top Floor.

Your MES tracks production in real time. Your ERP tracks costs retrospectively. Your CFO assembles the margin picture in a spreadsheet the night before the board meeting. riicu closes the gap between what happened on the line and what the numbers say.

Manufacturing CFO ViewLIVE
Gross Margin
34.6%
+1.8pp vs Bgt
Revenue
$186.2M
+7.4% YoY
COGS / Unit
$24.80
-$1.40 vs PY
Close Cycle
Day 4/6
On track
Shenzhen · Assembly
38.4%
Monterrey · Components
34.9%
Stuttgart · Precision
32.6%

Your ERP runs production orders and tracks inventory. Your MES monitors the line. riicu handles the financial layer that connects both to the P&L - product costing, margin analysis, multi-plant consolidation, and board-ready reporting.

Not an ERP replacement. Not a generic planning tool that does not know what standard cost variance means. A financial intelligence layer built for manufacturing CFOs who need to see margin by product, by plant, by customer, in real time.

The Reality

What Manufacturing Finance Actually Looks Like

01

Costing That Lies

Standard costs set twelve months ago. Actuals that diverge by 15%. Purchase price variances buried in one GL line. The margin the board sees is not the margin the plant is actually delivering.

02

Multi-Plant, Multi-Reality

Five plants across four countries, each with a different ERP, a different chart of accounts, and a different way of calculating WIP. Consolidation becomes a manual translation exercise every month.

03

Material Cost Volatility

Steel up 12%. Packaging up 8%. Energy up 20%. The budget assumed stable input prices. Nobody updated the forecast because remodelling takes a week. By the time the numbers are ready, the quarter is over.

04

Close That Takes Too Long

Inventory valuation, WIP reconciliation, intercompany transfers, cost allocation. The close takes 10 days. By the time the CFO has the numbers, they are already stale. Decisions wait. Opportunities pass.

Product Costing & Margin Analysis

Know Your True Cost. Not Last Year's Estimate.

Connect material costs, labour, overhead allocation, and yield rates into a live product cost model. See gross margin by SKU, by product line, by customer. Identify which products are destroying margin before the quarter closes.

Variance bridges that decompose standard vs actual into volume, price, mix, and efficiency. Not in a spreadsheet. In a dashboard your Controller trusts.

See it in action
riicu.app/costing
Q1 2026
Product Margin AnalysisBy Plant
Avg. COGS/Unit
$24.80
-5.3% YoY
Mat. Cost Var.
+$1.2M
Unfavourable
Yield Rate
94.1%
+0.8pp
Total Revenue
$186M
Q1 2026
Shenzhen · Rev
GM 38.4% · +2.1pp$78.4M
COGS
$48.3M
Monterrey · Rev
GM 34.9% · +0.6pp$62.1M
COGS
$40.4M
Stuttgart · Rev
GM 32.6% · -0.8pp$45.7M
COGS
$30.8M
Working Capital, Inventory & WIP Intelligence

Turn Inventory Into Cash. Before Quarter-End.

Raw materials, WIP, and finished goods tie up cash long before they become a board discussion. riicu gives manufacturing finance teams a live view of where working capital is building by plant, by inventory stage, and by product family.

Track DIO, WIP ageing, excess inventory, slow-moving stock, and cash release opportunities in one financial layer. Connect plant movements to balance sheet pressure and margin risk before month-end closes and before cash gets trapped in the network.

See it in action
riicu.app/working-capital
Mar 2026
Inventory & Cash Conversion$4.8M release
DIO
58 days
+4 vs target
WIP Days
19 days
+3 vs plan
Cash Release
$4.8M
Identified
Inv. at Risk
$1.6M
Slow-moving
Shenzhen
Raw 18.2 · WIP 6.1 · FG 7.4$31.7M
Monterrey
Raw 14.8 · WIP 8.3 · FG 9.1$32.2M
Stuttgart
Raw 16.5 · WIP 11.2 · FG 8.0$35.7M
Pune
Raw 13.9 · WIP 7.4 · FG 10.6$31.9M
Stuttgart · WIP above plan
+$3.1M
Pune · FG ageing
Threshold
Monterrey · Cash release
$4.8M
Executive Reporting

Board-Ready. Plant-Level Detail.

Generate EBITDA bridges, margin waterfalls, capex tracking, and segment P&Ls from one source of truth. Decompose variances into volume, price, mix, and efficiency for every product line and every plant.

Drill from the group summary to the plant, to the production line, to the cost centre. Two clicks.

See it in action
riicu.app/board-pack
Q1 2026
Gross Margin Bridge · Q1+1.8pp vs Bgt
Gross Margin
34.6%
+1.8pp vs Bgt
EBITDA
$28.4M
+$2.1M vs Bgt
Capex YTD
$6.8M
42% of annual
Revenue
$186M
+7.4% YoY
Prior Year
$24.6
Volume
Higher units+$3.8
Price
Pricing power+$1.6
Material Cost
Steel +12%-$1.2
Labour
Wage inflation-$0.8
Efficiency
Yield gain+$0.4
Current Year
$28.4
Capabilities

Built for the Operational Complexity of Manufacturing

Product Costing

Standard vs actual cost analysis by SKU, product line, and plant. Material, labour, and overhead decomposition with full audit trail.

Margin Variance Bridges

Volume, price, mix, and efficiency variances at group, plant, and product level. Rolling 12-month trends with drill-through.

Multi-Plant Consolidation

Consolidate across local ERPs, plant accounting practices, and multi-currency operations. Automated IC elimination, transfer pricing adjustments, and WIP reconciliation across the global plant network.

Inventory & WIP Valuation

Real-time inventory valuation by method (standard, actual, weighted average). WIP tracking by production order and cost centre.

Capex & Asset Tracking

Track capital projects against budget. Model depreciation impact on P&L. Link capex decisions to capacity, throughput, and ROI.

Input Cost Scenario Planning

Model steel, energy, packaging, and logistics cost shifts against margin and pricing. Instant reforecast when input prices move.

Designed Around Your Existing ERP, MES and Finance Systems.

From SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Cegid Primavera, Sage, PHC and QuickBooks to your existing manufacturing and operational systems, riicu is designed around the systems your business already runs - supporting a more connected finance environment and reducing spreadsheet-heavy workflows.

SAPOracleDynamics 365PrimaveraSageQuickBooksExcel

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