Manufacturing
Where margin is made or lost between the purchase order and the finished unit.
- Input cost inflation by material
- Product-level margin structure
- Inventory and work-in-process
- Supplier concentration and dependency
Industries
Built for businesses where performance matters.
The method is the same everywhere. What changes is which numbers explain the business — and that is set per sector, in configuration, not rewritten per client.
Distribution
High volume, thin margin, and a working capital cycle that punishes small errors.
- Inventory turnover by item
- Price dispersion across customers
- Purchase price versus list price
- Days sales outstanding by segment
B2B Commerce
A handful of accounts usually explain most of the revenue — and most of the risk.
- Customer concentration and churn
- Profitability by customer
- Discount and pricing consistency
- Collection behavior by account
Import & Export
Currency, landed cost and lead time turn a simple margin question into a timing question.
- Landed cost by shipment
- Currency exposure in the cost base
- Inventory held against lead time
- Supplier terms versus customer terms
Professional Services
No inventory to hide behind. Profitability is a question of mix, utilization and collection.
- Profitability by client and engagement
- Revenue concentration
- Collection cycle and aging
- Cost base structure
Growing Businesses
Growth hides problems. It also creates them faster than the reporting can describe them.
- Whether growth is funded by margin or by receivables
- Cost base scaling versus revenue
- Customer mix as it shifts
- Which lines are actually contributing
Who this is for
Forcelis is built for companies with enough operating complexity that the answer is not visible from the income statement alone.
- Size
- 10–100 employees, typically
- Stage
- Growing, with real revenue
- Model
- B2B, with inventory or credit terms
- Market
- Mexico, with international ambition
These companies rarely have a full internal bench — CFO, controller, financial analyst, data analyst, supply chain analyst. Forcelis works as an extension of the team they do have.
Sector logic lives in configuration
Sector metrics, trade abbreviations, input categories and thresholds are declared in configuration files, not written into the product per client. Adding a sector is a configuration change, which is why the analysis of a new industry does not restart from zero.
Your industry is not on the list?
The list reflects where the analysis is strongest today, not where it is possible. Tell us about the business and we will say plainly whether we can help.