FMCG distribution
- Situation
- High revenue across many products. Margin per product was not analysed regularly.
- Finding
- A product with high revenue brought almost no margin.
- Result
- Spotted before it became a cash problem.
Most companies lose money in places nobody looks at.
Not because nobody is looking. But because the answers are spread across your systems – over products, suppliers, warehouse locations and payment terms.
What really makes money?
Revenue is not profit.
- Revenue
- Gross margin
In everyday business
Revenue keeps growing. Yet at year end there is no more left over.
What butterfine makes visible
Revenue and margin side by side – per product, customer, channel and market, over time. The distance between the two is the real information.
Where are you paying too much?
Your supplier raised prices. Your selling price did not.
- Selling price
- Purchase price
- Margin per unit
In everyday business
Margin falls although nothing changed on the sales side.
What butterfine makes visible
How unit costs develop per supplier and item, which suppliers get more expensive faster than your selling prices rise, and how your purchasing volume is spread.
Irrigation technology
- Situation
- The same product was available from several suppliers. Purchase prices were not compared continuously.
- Finding
- An identical product was cheaper from another supplier.
- Result
- After switching, the margin went up.
If you know how prices have developed, you negotiate differently.
What ties up your capital?
What doesn't move ties up capital.
- Ball valve DN 80€38,400
- Butterfly valve DN 100€31,250
- Press fitting set 28 mm€27,900
- Flange connection DN 65€22,600
- Valve body 1 1/4″€19,800
- Pipe clamp M10, 500 pieces€17,350
- Gasket set type B€14,700
- Hose clamp 40–60 mm€12,000
Tied-up capital€184,000
In everyday business
The warehouse is full, yet cash is tight.
What butterfine makes visible
Slow movers, dead stock, stock turnover and tied-up capital – per product and location, in euros.
Building materials wholesale
- Situation
- Many items in stock. Which of them had not sold for months was not visible at a glance.
- Finding
- More than €300,000 of capital tied up in stock that had not sold for months.
- Result
- Visible in the first week.
Is your cash enough?
Understand cash before it gets tight.
- Forecast
- Floor
- With overdue receivables collected
In everyday business
The account looks fine today. In three weeks it won't.
What butterfine makes visible
The expected bank balance for the coming weeks, based on the payment terms of your invoices – with a note when your own floor will be crossed, and which overdue receivables would change that.
Cash flow planning
- Situation
- Planned investments and ongoing payments, but no forecast of the bank balance for the coming weeks.
- Finding
- A cash shortfall showed up five weeks in advance.
- Result
- Smaller investments were rescheduled – the shortfall never happened.
- What really makes money?
- Where are you paying too much?
- What ties up your capital?
- Is your cash enough?
Everything is connected.
What happens in purchasing affects margin and inventory. What you sell affects revenue and profitability. Payment terms affect your cash. butterfine shows these connections in one picture – instead of five reports.
What would we find at your company?
A few exports from your systems are enough. We show you where money is made, lost or tied up.