Manufacturing
Costing Software for Growing Businesses

Know your costs before production starts.
Control them after

  • Estimate product costs using BOMs and operations
  • Compare planned vs. actual costs by material, labour, and waste
  • Identify profitability leaks early and optimize your pricing
  • Track actual usage, substitutions, and rework from the shop floor
  • Support sales and finance teams with real‑time, accurate cost data
Costing program for manufacturing businesses to estimate product cost and compare plan vs. actual

Problems Manufacturing Costing
Software Helps Solve

📉 No Visibility into Cost Structure before Production

Makes it hard to quote or price accuratelys

🔄 Mismatch between Expected and Actual Production Cost

Material swaps, waste, and labour overruns are hard to track manually

📦 Unclear Breakdown of Cost per Product or Order

Teams can’t see where time or money is being lost

📊 Finance Disconnected from Production Operations

Data lives in silos. Costing is delayed, incomplete, or outdated

When and Who Uses Manufacturing Costing Software?

  • Small and medium manufacturers producing multi‑component goods
  • Production planners estimate costs before launch and optimize time, materials, and waste
  • Sales teams use it to set prices and generate accurate quotes
  • Finance teams analyze post‑production actuals and link real‑time data to actual margins
  • Executives track margins and cost drivers to support strategic decisions
Manufacturing costing software for production planners, finance teams, sales departments, and executives to plan, track, and analyze costs

Key Features of Costing Program

  • BOM‑based cost estimation
    Uses material, labour, and operation data from the BOM to calculate expected cost
  • Plan vs. actual cost comparison
    Highlights variances across material usage, processing time, and unplanned inputs
  • Component‑level tracking
    Captures material substitutions, scrap, and overconsumption during production
  • Flexible cost allocation
    Allocate costs between products, subproducts, and rejected items based on sale price or quantity
  • Batch- or order‑based costing logic
    Analyze cost per production order and split across items accordingly
  • Inventory and shop floor integration
    Syncs with warehouse and employee‑reported task data for accurate actuals
Cost breakdown for a specific production order including material, labor, and operational expenses

What You Can Track with Manufacturing Costing Software

  • Material costs — based on BOM and purchase prices
  • Labour costs — from operations added in the route
  • Packaging or processing steps — assigned manually or as operations
  • Waste and rework — captured via substitutions or write‑offs
  • Total cost per batch — broken down by final product. Split by quantity (equal share) or sale price (weighted by value).
  • Actual cost vs. estimate for any production order
Allocation of production costs for a universal cleaning agent by raw materials (water, dye, fragrance) and operations (water prep, blending, packaging)

Costing Software
for Smarter Production Control

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Flexible Pricing

14‑day trial, free plan available, $60/year for basic features, and $563/year for the plan with the manufacturing module. Monthly payments accepted

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Integrations & API

Integrations with third‑party CRM, e‑commerce, accounting, and delivery platforms such as Shopify, Zoho Books, HubSpot, and more, plus an API for custom integrations

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Dedicated Support and Onboarding

1–3 onboarding sessions and free support with response times of 5–15 minutes. Help Center articles and YouTube tutorials for self‑guided learning

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Secured Data

Cloud hosting, data encryption & backup, and customizable access permissions for different user roles

Manufacturing Costing
Software Success Stories

FAQ about Manufacturing
Costing Software

Manufacturing costing software helps you calculate the total cost of producing goods — including materials, labour, operations, and waste. It supports better pricing, cost control, and profitability analysis across the entire production cycle.

Yes. Kladana uses BOM data, operating expenses, and material prices to calculate estimated costs before launching a production order — so you can quote accurately and plan with confidence.

Yes. You can compare planned costs (from the BOM) with actual production data, including substituted materials, labour time, and waste — to analyze cost overruns or savings.

Yes. Kladana lets you distribute production costs based on item quantity or sales price, which is useful when you have scrap, by‑products, or rejected items.

You can include:

  • Raw material and component costs
  • Labour & operation costs
  • Packaging or service inputs
  • Scrap and substitutions (factored in post‑production)
  • Cost of subassemblies or nested BOMs

Yes. Kladana’s costing engine pulls data directly from BOMs, production orders, warehouse operations, and shop floor task logs for accurate costing.

Yes. Estimated production costs can be used by sales or pricing teams to generate quotes with realistic profit margins.

Absolutely. It’s designed for small and medium manufacturers who want to improve pricing, track margins, and reduce manual calculations — without the complexity of large ERP systems.

Yes. If a production order results in multiple items — such as a main product, a subproduct, or scrap — Kladana allows you to split total production cost by quantity produced, or sales price of each item. This is useful for handling by‑products, planned waste, or rejected items that are reused or sold separately. You decide how costs are allocated based on your internal logic or accounting needs.

Yes. You can try Kladana — including the costing features — free for 14 days, with no credit card required.

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