Freight, packaging and indirect costs
Freight, packaging and other indirect costs as a share of invoice, so the true landed cost is what margin is measured against.
Why it matters
Freight, packaging and indirect costs decide whether the landed cost is the cost margin is measured against. A rising share means the margin you see is overstated.
Act when
Up over x% of invoice
Thresholds are set per business; the ones written as x and y are placeholders your team fills in.
What it may signal
Fuel rises, inefficient logistics, supplier issues.
What to do
The templates that respond when this metric moves.
- Landed cost modeltemplate
- Freight lane cost tabletemplate
How it’s defined
- Formula
sum('Indirect costs') / sum('Invoice revenue')- Required context
- Invoice lines, Landed cost
- Dimensions
- Family, Region, Account
- Cadence
- Reviewed monthly
- Lineage
- Every value traces to the invoice line or governing record it was computed from.
- Use in
- Alerts: an agent watches it against a rule and alerts you when it trips.
Relevant industries
All industries
See Freight, packaging and indirect costs on your commercial data.
We will show how Revomo defines, monitors and connects this metric to commercial action, using representative data or your own.