macs Cost Center

Features of the macs Cost Center Module

With the macs Cost Center module, you always have your costs in sight. Our powerful software provides you with detailed analysis for planning, accurate simulations, and comprehensive control options—ensuring your company's long-term profitability.

Determine cost rates

Automatically calculate cost rates for your equipment and create a transparent basis for your cost planning and calculations. Total costs can be clearly divided into various service categories—such as machinery, labor, or setup. This detailed breakdown gives you a clear overview of your cost drivers, helping you identify specific areas for optimization and savings.

Detailed Cost Accounting for Maximum Control

A precise and structured cost accounting system is the foundation of a successful business. With macs Cost Center, you can thoroughly analyze cost centers, cost types, and cost units, ensuring clear cost allocation. This means transparent cost structures, a solid decision-making foundation, and the ability to identify and reduce costs strategically. Through detailed allocation by cost and service type, strategies can be better defined and financial resources used more efficiently to maximize profitability and contribution margins.

Comprehensive Cost Analysis for Greater Planning Security

Flexibility in cost planning is essential for sustainable business success. Our module supports both full cost and variable cost accounting, allowing a comprehensive view of all expenses or targeted analyses—for example, of production costs, contribution margins, and the profitability of individual products or orders. Additionally, clearly separating fixed and variable costs allows for precise cost control. You'll see which expenses remain constant regardless of production volume and which vary dynamically—an essential foundation for accurate calculations, targeted optimization, and effective cost analysis.

Internal Allocations and Interdepartmental Cost Distribution

Efficient cost management requires clear allocation strategies. With macs Cost Center, you can:

• Distribute primary and secondary costs across cost centers to ensure realistic cost allocation.

• Use flexible transfer prices and allocation keys (e.g., square meters or machine operating hours) to assign costs based on causation.

Variance Analysis

Use standard cost accounting to determine deviations in capacity utilization, consumption, price, or mix.

Profit Center Accounting

Clear profit center distributions and inter-profit center billing allow for accurate allocation of costs and revenues. This enables companies to specifically analyze and manage individual business units, improving performance assessments across departments or divisions. The result: increased transparency and more efficient management decisions.

Activity-Based Costing and Target Costing

With activity-based costing, companies can record and optimize costs structured by processes. This enables more efficient resource usage and more accurate calculation of product and service costs. In addition, target costing helps define realistic cost targets and ensures that products and services remain profitable.

Project Controlling for Plant Engineering and Other Industries

Project-driven sectors like plant engineering require detailed cost control for each individual project. Our solution allows you to monitor financial resources per project, detect variances early, and plan and calculate more effectively. If your ERP system lacks project time-tracking features, macs can handle project-based work time recording. This enhances cost reliability and boosts profitability in project-oriented business models. 

Cost Analysis for Informed Make-or-Buy Decisions

Make confident make-or-buy decisions with the help of precise cost analyses, ensuring your company follows the most economically viable strategy. Our module delivers a clear and detailed cost structure that supports objective evaluation of both external and internal services.

Cost Allocation Sheet (BAB)

The cost allocation sheet (BAB) acts as a central tool for internal service allocation and provides a reliable basis for calculation. These comprehensive features enhance cost transparency and help you use company resources more efficiently—driving sustainable improvements in profitability.

Powerful Planning and Simulation

With advanced planning and simulation capabilities, you can go far beyond the limitations of traditional ERP systems. Depending on your needs, planning can follow a top-down, bottom-up, counter-current, or zero-based approach. Additionally, built-in planning tools support scenarios that involve complex interdependencies—for example, automatically calculating social security contributions based on salary costs. Planning can also be done by origin, such as defining wage groups that can then be targeted for performance-based simulations and planning—delivering greater flexibility, precision, and efficiency in your planning processes.

Sensitivity Analysis (Simulation) for Decision Support

Integrated sensitivity analysis allows you to systematically examine how changes in individual influencing factors—such as material costs, wages, or sales volumes—affect your cost structure and profitability. By running through specific scenarios, you gain reliable decision-making support and reduce financial risks in strategic planning, investments, or pricing negotiations.