Reduce complexity. Maximize cost transparency.

Production processes and product development of complex components based on parts lists and work plans are often characterized by unclear specifications, long lead times and dynamic cost structures. Costing and controlling with the help of isolated solutions and static tools such as Excel can't cope with these challenges and fail. A transparent cost overview in real time is crucial.

Probably the best tool for your production costing

PLC-COCKPIT enables you to master a wide range of costing challenges with ease.

  • Learn from yesterday

    • Analyze and retrieve project histories
    • Increase efficiency with templates and project controlling (simulations and profitability analysis)

  • Decide today

    • Shorter quotation cycles
    • Iterative quotation calculation for existing products
    • Reliable decisions for variants and simulations as well as cost transparency

  • Shaping tomorrow

    • From the idea to production
    • Transparency in the product costing process, including estimated values
    • Development projects 

Customized and effective: our Fit/GAP workshop

Before implementation, it is worth taking a closer look: With our Fit/GAP workshop, we focus on your existing calculation processes – and where they reach their limits. Together with you, we identify the specific gap between the current state and the target state. This shows the actual effort required for individual developments in your project.

The added value for you: transparency right from the start. Close communication with our project team forms the foundation for reliable cooperation. Thanks to clear analysis, concrete recommendations for action, and our fixed-price guarantee, you get maximum planning security—and create the ideal starting point for a successful project launch.

Why PLC-COCKPIT makes the difference

Centralized information management

Email requests, Excel sheets from Procurement, and phone updates from Production – it doesn’t take long before things get messy and key information slips through the cracks. But it doesn’t have to be that way: With the PLC-COCKPIT workflow engine, all departments collaborate in a single tool. Procurement prices, sales quotes, and production plans – everything in one place.

Greater efficiency with smart templates

Need the same product as last time – just in red? Use historical project data from the PLC COCKPIT and save adjustments as templates for future calculations.
Whether you’re dealing with scaled pricing, component costing, variant configurations or target price calculations – smart templates help you streamline the process and avoid starting from scratch.

Master data at the touch of a button: it's that simple

Many companies shy away from integrating costing tasks because essential master data is missing in their ERP system. As a result, production processes have to be manually supplemented with estimates – a time-consuming and error-prone approach. This is a challenge that PLC-COCKPIT solves efficiently.

With the PLC-COCKPIT extension “Master Data Generator”, you can create master data and follow-up processes at the push of a button – seamlessly integrated into your production costing.The software automatically checks for existing master data and generates material masters, bills of materials, routings, and production versions as needed – all without leaving PLC-COCKPIT. It doesn’t get more flexible or secure than this.

Master data at the touch of a button

Calculate and compare variants

In manufacturing, there is rarely a clear way to achieve maximum EBIT and meet customer requirements in equal measure. Decisions on materials, sources of supply or production strategies are often complex and interdependent.

With the PLC-COCKPIT, you can easily calculate and compare variants - at product, project or package level. Whether it's a costing comparison, business case simulation or profitability analysis - you always receive the data you need.

Does your SAP ERP system already support variant costing? PLC-COCKPIT complements this seamlessly: assign materials and assemblies to variants, define request packages, track the costwalk and evaluate acceptance scenarios.

Sustainable, targeted costing

The EU CSR Directive will make ESG reporting mandatory for many companies from 2025 at the latest. This means that it is already crucial in the early calculation phase.

With PLC-COCKPIT, you can calculate CO2 emissions directly in the cost calculation without the need for a third-party solution. In addition to your own emissions, product-related emissions from suppliers and forwarding agents are also taken into account and can be shown individually or in the production context.

As an integral part of your SAP system landscape, it also grows with you and is therefore equipped for future adjustments in this dynamic regulatory environment.

100% SAP. But 100% independent

Access to data is crucial for project costing in discrete manufacturing. However, data is often synchronized manually or via interfaces with non-system calculation tools. There is never just one right way to do this.
This is exactly where PLC comes in. It seamlessly extends your SAP ERP and takes master data into account in real time. 

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