Profectus Consultants Budgeted Hourly Rates Quick Start Service

Calculate rates for any equipment or service
Calculate budgeted hourly rates for any printing and packaging equipment or service.

Gain insight into your true costs
Get a detailed breakdown of every cost component that composes your hourly rates.

Works with any estimating software
Provides budgeted hourly rates (BHRs) required by any estimating & costing MIS/ERP software.

Fast and easy
No accounting knowledge needed. Update your budgeted hourly rates in just minutes!

Benchmark against other companies
Benchmark your labor, factory, and overhead costs and BHRs against other companies.

Increase Good Sales, Eliminate Bad Sales
Win more orders with higher profit and contribution margins.

Built-in industry "Blue Book" rates study
Includes cost and rates studies for thousands of equipment and services for comparisons.

Import your data
Effortlessly import your spreadsheets, income statements, budgets, and other data.

Find the best pricing strategy
Create various cost and material markups and pricing strategies using your budget.

Project your profitability
Create income statement based on your budget with projected profit margins and ratios.

Create multiple sets of rates
Manage rates and costs for multiple companies, divisions, locations, or what-if scenerios.

Track changes in costs and rates
See how your rates and costs have changed over time and why.

Satisfaction guarantee or your money back!
If you're not happy within the first 30 days, for any reason, we'll refund all of your money.

FREE expert consulting support
You receive support from a real live Profectus industry business consultant, for any reason.

Makes Spreadsheets Obsolete
Cost Rates Advisor is considerably easier, faster, and more reliable than spreadsheets.

Secure, Protected, and Confidential
Profectus employs strict security policies to your account and data.

Works anywhere you do 24/7/365
Cost Rates Advisor runs in the cloud. Use it anywhere with a browser and internet.

Frequently Asked Questions
The answers to common questions about budgeted hourly rates and Cost Rates Advisor.

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About Cost Rates Advisor and Profectus
Learn more about Cost Rates Advisor and Profectus printing & packaging business management consultants.

Over 400 customers
Printing companies throughout the United States and Canada have discovered the benefits of Cost Rates Advisor.

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Budgeted hourly rates, cost analysis, and benchmarking software for printing and packaging businesses.

Profectus Quick Start Service

Quick Start BHRs Preparation Service

Short on time, resources, or expertise?

Let a Profectus printing industry consultant
build your budgeted hourly rates!

Profectus business management consultants are regarded as industry experts in budgeted hourly rates and analyzing costs. For over 30 years, our consultants have prepared budgeted hourly rates (BHRs) for hundreds of printing and packaging organizations across North America, ranging in size from 5 employees to some of the industry�s largest companies.

By leveraging our expertise to enter and build your budgeted hourly rates, you'll dramatically cut down on time, resources, costs, and the guesswork involved. We'll take hours or even days off your workload.

Here's how the Quick Start Service works:

Step 1

Project Kickoff

One of our industry expert consultants will be dedicated to your project, guiding your organization from start to completion. The consultant will send you a project kickoff letter and a request for the necessary financial and production information such as Profit & Loss expenses, employee wages & benefits, and list of equipment.

Step 2

Enter & Prepare Cost Rates

The consultant will analyze and enter your information into your Cost Rates Advisor subscription based on your company and industry best practices. While building your BHRs, the consultant with schedule remote web sessions (typically 2-4 sessions) with your organization to:

review and fine-tune your budgeted hourly rates,
provide training on Cost Rates Advisor,
discuss implementing your updated BHRs,
provide recommendations for improving your bottom line,
discuss mark-up and pricing strategies for products and services.

Step 3

Analyze Results and Recommendations

Most projects are completed within 2-4 weeks. Once completed, you will have full access to your active Cost Rates Advisor subscription and data, and the ability to update your rates anytime, without the assistance of Profectus (unless requested).

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Approximately how many employees are in your organization? (all employees on payroll)

Approximately how many pieces of equipment
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Why are you interested in our Quick Start Service?

Or call 1-888-868-8662

Let Profectus take hours of work off your plate.

More time for you.

You�ll save hours of data setup and work, so you can focus on growing the business.

Know where you stand faster.

You�ll quickly get a true picture of your budget, costs, rates, & financial forecasts.

Total peace of mind.

You�ll have greater peace of mind knowing that your rates are up-to-date and accurate.

Profectus, Inc. · Sarasota, Florida · United States · Phone: 1-888-868-8662
Business management consultants specializing in the printing & packaging industry since 1993.

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