Dashboard objectives
Cost Explorer is a dashboard that aims at giving a simple access to cost information that are usually difficult to extract from Solvay IS systems:
- Navigation within the Raw Materials - Finished Products - Customers triangle
- Detailed finished products Bill Of Materials with all levels and utilities / fixed costs details
- Aggregation of sales and production data to calculate Integrated Contribution Margin / machine hour.
Dashboard structure and indicators
Cost Explorer pulls data from multiple sources (see “Data sources” section at the end of the page for more details) and combines them into 3 tabs.
Tab | What's in it for you |
|---|---|
Triangle | to be completed |
| Bill of Materials | to be completed |
| Margin per Hour | to be completed |
The below table contains the list of all Cost Explorer indicators and where they can be found (filters, core of the dashboard...) in the dashboard.
Search for a specific indicator by typing its name or select a dashboard tab to filter on its indicators to be completed
Use cases
The below slides give you a quick idea of how Cost Explorer can be used in your daily job
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Find out which Finished Product(s) / Customer(s) consume which Raw Material(s) tbc
Find out what are the main Raw Material(s) consumed by a given Finished Product range tbc
Find out what are the main Raw Materials for a given Business Unit tbc
Access Bill of Materials with detailed view of Activities (Utilities and Fixed Costs) tbc
Analyze Integrated Contribution Margin / machine hour tbc
Access
This dashboard is accessible via the Qlik Sense portal. This requires you to be connected to Solvay network (in-situ or via VPN).
Access can only be restricted by GBU. There are no other restrictions (Region or Market, for instance) that can be applied.
As of now, the only GBU using this dashboard is Novecare, for employees belonging to the following teams:
- Purchasing
- Strategy & Transformation
- S&OP
- Technology development / Process improvement
- Product Stewardship
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