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Activity Based Costing System
Businesses can’t plan until they truly understand their costs. While operating statements and M.I.S. reports give you some information—you need a more powerful tool to fully understand the impact of time and distance on profitability.
With Trincon’s Activity Based Costing System, you get easy-to-use technology that helps you measure the cost effects of both time and distance, the profitability of pricing, the impact of using company versus contract trucks, and more. Trincon will show you how to use the information you gain to transform your business into a true profit center.
The Activity Based Costing system supplies management with a powerful:
- Dispatch Tool: Determine the cost or profitability of the effect of “Hours of Service” on specific shipments.
- Sales Tool: Measure the profit in pricing against actual or projected costs of operation.
- Operations Tool: Determine the standards and measure the profit effects of increased productivity.
- Management Planning Tool: Forecast revenue, variable and fixed expense, and profit.
Contact Trincon today. And learn more about how our Activity Based Costing System can help you measure the cost or profit of any truck, lane, or customers.
Tru-Cost® Activity Based Costing System
Tru-Cost® is an easy-to-use, PC-based, Activity Based Costing software that allows you to measure both variable and fixed costs based on distance and time. As a result, Tru-Cost® determines the true costs of individual loads and shipping lanes, giving you the information you need to make essential adjustments, optimize productivity, and save money.
With Tru-Cost®, you can use your accounting system as a management tool to:
- Define operational costs, including the cost/profit of a truck, traffic lane or customer
- Measure profitability of existing or new pricing
- Identify problems in operating costs, productivity, or pricing
- Measure the profit effect of operational decisions such as increasing or decreasing fleet size or changing the ratio of company versus contractor trucks.
To learn more about how Tru-Cost® can help you understand your costs, save you money, and increase your profits, contact Trincon for a free demonstration today.