True COGS

Build the real cost of a batch from the recipe up.

1. What actually goes into COGSHow a manufacturer's cost of goods sold is really built — the three buckets that make up a product's cost, and the everyday expenses that don't belong in it.
2. Landed cost: what a pound of flour really costs youWhy a material's invoice price is not what it costs you, and how to add freight, duties, and handling to get the landed cost your COGS is really built on.
3. Build true COGS from your recipesHow to roll every material's landed cost, plus the labor and overhead, up through a recipe — including the components you make yourself — into a cost per batch and per unit you can stand behind.
4. Watch your cost move as input prices swingHow to keep a product's cost current as material prices move, read the margin hit before your P&L ever shows it, and catch any product that input inflation has quietly pushed below its cost floor.