Landed cost · live engine
What that container actually cost you.
Product arrives, goes into the freezer, and gets sold. The freight invoice arrives three weeks later, the brokerage a week after that. In between, everyone is quoting a cost per pound that is a guess, and nothing on the screen says so. That is the problem this engine exists for, and it is a bookkeeping problem long before it is a software one.
The same container, twice
- On the day it landed
- $2.76/lb
- Once every invoice was in
- $2.78/lb
+$0.02/lb, which is $899.00 on this one container
Same container, same arithmetic. The freight came in over the quote, the brokerage under it. Everything sold in between was priced off the first figure, and nothing on the screen said it was provisional.
Type over any line. Tick a line once its real invoice has arrived, or clear the lot at once, and watch the card on the right change from amber to green.
| Cost line | Amount | Invoiced |
|---|---|---|
| Supplier purchase cost | yes | |
| Ocean freight | ||
| Inland trucking | ||
| Customs | ||
| Customs brokerage | ||
| Import duties | ||
| Agent commission | ||
| Inspection fees | ||
| Cold storage in transit | ||
| Total landed | $104,816.00 |
Landed cost per pound
$2.76
$104,816.00 over 38,000.00 lb received
Estimated
4 lines still waiting on an invoice: ocean freight, inland trucking, customs brokerage, cold storage in transit. Until they land, this figure is provisional and every screen that shows it says so.
And what the box costs
$1.89/box
- Master carton
- $1.18
- Poly liner
- $0.34
- Label and print
- $0.09
- Stretch wrap share
- $0.07
- Pallet share
- $0.21
- Overhead at 0.00%
- $0.00
$1,209.60 over 640 boxes, $0.08/lb finished
The overhead rate opens at zero, because it is management’s to set and not ours to invent. An uncosted component reads as uncosted, never as free.
Cost is where most of the money quietly goes.
The value side lives in GradeLine. Put the two together and a lot has a margin you can defend.