Receiving, movement, picking, and correction.
Allocate labour using transactions, task duration, quantity, cases, weight, pallets, users, or configured activity rates.
AJAX Profitability
See true profit—not just standard margin.
AJAX Profitability connects Business Central financial data with warehouse, quality, transportation, grower, tariff, EDI, and fulfillment activity so executives can see which items, customers, growers, orders, facilities, and seasons are actually profitable after the cost required to operate.
What Standard Margin Can Miss
The sale may look profitable until the operating cost is included.
Standard item cost and revenue do not always show the labour, freight, quality, storage, grower, tariff, packaging, financing, and customer-specific effort required to complete the sale. AJAX Profitability is designed to make those costs visible and explainable.
Inbound and outbound transportation cost.
Assign carrier invoices, fuel, accessorial charges, route cost, redelivery, and customer-specific delivery requirements.
Time and effort inside the facility.
Include storage days, temperature zones, pallet touches, special handling, warehouse occupancy, and inventory movement.
Inspection, holds, rework, and product loss.
Connect audits, photos, holds, rejected quantities, claims, spoilage, rework, and customer deductions.
Materials, labour, labels, and conversion cost.
Carry packaging, relabelling, repacking, packout, and conversion activity back to the finished item or lot.
Advances, settlements, deductions, and payments.
Connect grower advances, quality results, inventory, packout, settlement deductions, financing, and final payment.
Include cross-border cost in the product result.
Bring tariff classification, duties, fees, brokerage, landed-cost adjustments, and trade-related cost closer to the items and orders that created them.
Include financial cost beyond standard item cost.
Map selected GL accounts to explainable allocation rules and distribute them across the activity that created the expense.
Connected Operational Data
Better profitability starts with better communication between departments.
AJAX OES applications can share operational context instead of forcing finance to rebuild the story from disconnected systems, spreadsheets, and manual explanations.
Receiving, serialization, location, movement, allocation, picking, putback, counting, labeling, and shipment execution provide activity that can support cost allocation.
View WMSAudits, photos, holds, releases, rejected product, tendered loads, carriers, accessorial charges, proof of delivery, and shipment exceptions help explain cost to serve.
View QMSAJAX OES is designed to use financial and operational information together while reducing the need for warehouse users to work directly inside the ERP.
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Executive Analysis
Analyze profitability from the level that matters.
Start with the executive result, then drill into the item, customer, grower, order, lot, facility, season, tariff, transaction, or allocation rule responsible for that result.
Find products with hidden cost.
Compare revenue, item cost, warehouse activity, freight, quality, tariffs, packaging, and allocated overhead.
See the true cost to serve.
Include special packaging, delivery requirements, claims, handling, order frequency, and service complexity.
Connect the complete commercial relationship.
Include advances, contracts, quality, inventory, packout, deductions, financing, settlements, and payments.
Understand transaction-level economics.
Connect order size, picking tags, pallet handling, freight, special services, tariff cost, and customer requirements.
Compare operating performance.
Review labour, throughput, storage, shrink, handling, service cost, and profitability across locations.
Keep profitability traceable.
Follow operational cost, quality outcomes, grower ownership, product conversion, and sales results through the lot lifecycle.
Compare crop years, programs, and periods.
Review performance across seasons, grower programs, contracts, commodities, customer programs, and market cycles.
Explain where the allocated cost came from.
Preserve the connection between the executive result, source transaction, allocation rule, financial account, tariff, or operational event.
Explainable Allocation
Use rules management can understand, review, and defend.
Allocation should not become another unexplained spreadsheet. Each rule should identify the source cost, allocation method, effective period, target dimension, and supporting operational data.
Allocate by weight, volume, pallet, case, route, shipment, customer, or order.
Allocate by task, transaction, duration, quantity, user, department, or configured activity rate.
Allocate by quantity, pallet position, cubic volume, zone, temperature requirement, or storage day.
Allocate inspection, audit, photo, hold, rework, claim, rejection, and product-loss cost.
Allocate advances, financing, quality adjustments, deductions, settlement, and payment-related cost.
Allocate duties, fees, brokerage, and trade-related cost by item, shipment, value, weight, or quantity.
Allocate materials, labour, labels, repacking, and packout conversion.
Allocate selected GL accounts using configured operational drivers and effective periods.
Example Allocation Methods
Match the allocation method to the available evidence.
Rules can be configured around the available data and the level of accuracy required.
| Method | How it works |
|---|---|
| Direct | Assign a known cost directly to an item, lot, order, grower, customer, shipment, or facility. |
| Proportional | Distribute cost by quantity, weight, value, volume, time, distance, or transaction count. |
| Activity Rate | Apply configured rates for receipt, movement, audit, pick, pack, tender, shipment, or document activity. |
| Hybrid | Combine direct assignment with proportional or activity-based allocation. |
| Effective Date | Version rules by period so results remain repeatable, reviewable, and auditable. |
How It Works
Move from source cost to explainable executive profit.
AJAX Profitability is designed to connect financial cost with the operational work, customer requirements, grower obligations, tariffs, and transactions that created it.
Connect financial cost
Reference selected GL entries, invoices, freight, grower, tariff, packaging, claims, and other cost records.
Connect operational activity
Use WMS, QMS, TMS, EDI, grower, order, lot, customer, facility, and fulfillment activity.
Apply allocation rules
Calculate direct, proportional, activity-based, or hybrid allocations for the selected period.
Review true profitability
Compare standard margin with profit after selected operating, grower, tariff, and allocated financial cost.
See what may be eroding item-level profit.
Estimate AJAX OES pricing, create a tenant, and begin guided setup without waiting for a consultation.
Management Estimate
Profitability results are management estimates based on the data, allocation methods, accounting policies, operating procedures, configuration, and effective periods selected by the customer.
AJAX Profitability is designed to supplement financial analysis and does not replace the customer’s accounting system, audited financial statements, or professional accounting judgment.