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US 2001/0044740 A1Published application
Real time contribution margin
OwnerRoger P. Hoffmaninventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for reviewing business decisions in real time.
Claims11
A system for providing contribution margin/profit or other performance information for a business decision that could be made or has been made comprising;
- said system gathers information regarding a transaction;
- performs computations relating to financial performance of said transaction;
- gathers logistic information regarding proposed shipment of a good and calculates said cost of shipment;
- gathers data from where a good was produced or will be produced relating to cost of consumables and other manufacturing requirements,
- gathers data relating to current purchase price of consumables for computing real time financial performance of said transaction;
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- multiplies said cost by said consumption data for each particular consumable that is used in manufacturing of said good to compute a total real time cost of said good.
4 more elements
A process for providing contribution margin/profit or other performance information for a business decision that could be made or has been made comprising;
- selling a product on the Internet;
- reporting financial performance of said sales transaction to an appropriate party via the Internet.
- comparing revenue from said sales transaction against current cost of said transaction.
A process for providing contribution margin/profit or other performance information for a business decision that could be made or has been made comprising;
- gathering information regarding a transaction;
- performing computations relating to financial performance of said transaction;
- gathering logistic information regarding proposed shipment of a good and calculating said cost of shipment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.