Formulation and costing software that shows your real margin
Your recipes are your intellectual property and your margin lives inside them. Quantum keeps formulations, ingredient prices, packaging, labour and overheads in one place, so you always know what a litre, a kilogram or a 20 L drum really costs.
- Raw materialsR 233.42
- PackagingR 38.00
- LabourR 12.00
- OverheadsR 21.00
Illustrative figures with demo ingredients and prices.
From ingredient price to selling price
Version-controlled formulations
Every change is versioned, approved and attributed, and production can only run the approved version.
Ingredient price book
Keep supplier prices per ingredient. Change one price and every formulation that uses it is re-costed.
Cost per kg, litre and unit
See raw material cost per kilogram or litre, then roll it up to the finished unit with packaging, labour and overheads.
Target margin to selling price
Set the gross margin you need and see the selling price and the profit per batch before you quote.
What-if supplier increases
Test a price rise before it lands and see its effect on unit cost and your price list.
Scale to any batch size
Ingredient quantities, costs and profit recalculate for any batch size, with density handled for litre-based products.
One system instead of many.
Why spreadsheet costing drifts
Most costing spreadsheets start accurate and slowly drift. An ingredient price changes in one tab but not another, a packaging cost is forgotten, a formula is edited without anyone noticing, and the margin you think you are making is not the margin you are making.
Quantum makes the formulation the single source of truth. Ingredient prices live in one price book, formulations reference them, and the cost roll-up is always calculated from current data. When a supplier raises a price, you see the effect on unit cost and selling price immediately, not at year-end.
Because costing sits next to production, quoting and invoicing, the cost you calculate is the cost you quote against, and the batch you make is the batch you invoice.
From first call to live in weeks.
- DiscoverWe map your tools, costs and workflows and decide what to consolidate first.
- DesignWe shape modules, roles and documents around the way your team already works.
- MigrateYour customers, products, stock and history move across, checked and reconciled with you.
- Run & evolveTraining, support and continuous tailoring, while you cancel the old subscriptions as you go.
Good to know.
Formulation costing works out what a product costs to make from its recipe: the quantity and price of each ingredient, plus packaging, labour and overheads, expressed per kilogram, litre, unit or batch.
You update the ingredient price once. Every formulation that uses the ingredient is re-costed, so you can see the new cost per unit and the selling price needed to hold your margin.
Yes. Ingredient quantities, total cost and profit recalculate for the batch size you choose, with product density handled for litre-based products.
Access is controlled by role, so only the people you choose can see or change a formulation, and every change is attributed in the audit trail.
Yes. Costing, quotes, production and invoices share the same product and price data, so a repriced ingredient can flow through to your price list and quotes.
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