Budget manufacturing is necessary if your operation involves the assembly or manufacture of products from raw materials or where the cost of sales include things other than finished goods. Visual Cash Focus includes inventory management methodology for those who need budgets and cash flow forecasts involving work in progress. With budgeting and forecasting software for manufacturing, functionality for the ability to recover and capitalize overhead expenses in the manufacture of finished goods is necessary. Budget manufacturing is a niche requirement available in Visual Cash Focus from the Corporate edition upwards. With budget manufacturing you can  calculate a “bill of materials” and manage raw materials, WIP and finished goods levels for any number of product lines.

Budget manufacturing

In a normal business, cost of sales (COS) consists of sales of goods already in stock or purchased. For a manufacturer, COS also consists of items manufactured from raw materials and other resources like electricity, wages etc.