Pricing Engine

The engine walks you through a fixed sequence of calculation sections. Each is saved before the next opens, and every number in the final quotation traces back to an input in an earlier section.

1. 01Customer and financial basics. Who the quote is for, plus the financial frame: primary and secondary currencies and exchange rate, overhead-cost percentage, target margin, interest rate, and payment terms.
2. 02Data assumptions. Working days per year, shifts per day, hours per shift, warehouse space (main floor, open area, mezzanine, office), and expected volumes per process.
3. 03Process map. The operations the engagement covers — receiving, put-away, picking, packing, dispatch, and others — each with daily volume, productivity rate per hour, and equipment type. This drives headcount.
4. 04Personnel master data. Wage rates per staff category (Unskilled Labour, Picker and Packer, Warehouse Driver, Supervisor, Warehouse Manager, and others) with working days, holidays, illness days, annual cost, and hourly rate. Set up once at the company level and reused across every quote.
5. 05FTE requirement. From process volumes and productivity rates, how many full-time equivalents each process needs. You can override and set a final count; the engine then applies the personnel costs to get a manpower cost per process.
6. 06Investment (CAPEX). Building fit-out, materials handling equipment, racking, IT hardware, office equipment, and an unforeseen allowance — each with quantity, purchase price, depreciation period, and maintenance percentage. The engine computes depreciation, interest, and monthly cost.
7. 07Start-up costs. One-time recruitment, training, set-up, and deposits.
8. 08OPEX. Ongoing rent, electricity, diesel, telecoms, housekeeping, materials, PPE, software charges, and general expenses — each producing a monthly and per-annum cost.
9. 09Operational cost sheet. Consolidates personnel, OPEX, and depreciation/interest into a single total monthly cost mapped to ledger heads (direct vs. indirect), with summaries: total direct cost per month, total revenue cost per month, gross margin, and gross direct cost.
10. 10Space and storage. Racking types, location counts, utilisation factors, pick-face requirements, aisle widths, and handling-area dimensions — confirming the space assumptions are consistent with the volumes.
11. 11Quotation sheet. You name up to five tariff columns (for example: Per Pallet In, Per Pallet Out, Per Order, Storage per Pallet per Month, Management Fee), allocate direct and indirect costs across them as percentages, enter the volume per tariff, and the engine computes the calculated tariff, margin, interest on outstanding payments and investments, start-up allocation, and the total tariff per service type in both currencies. A comparison column lets you benchmark against a target price.

• Export the finished quotation as a formatted Excel file with company name, date, all rows and tariff columns, and cost lines colour-coded by type.
• Live exchange-rate lookup between the primary and secondary currencies.

• Internal pricing and business development teams at a 3PL or warehouse operator who bid on warehouse-management contracts and need a defensible, cost-grounded price for a client.
• The person running a calculation must be registered and logged in; there is no self-serve, client-facing interface.

Log in with your company account. From the dashboard, select an existing customer or start a new one. Step through the calculation sections in order — each has a Save button; once saved, you move to the next. The 'New Calculation' function clears the current data and re-seeds the default master tables if you need to start fresh. When all sections are complete, open the Quotation page to review and generate the Excel file.

• Warehouse Calculatora separate cost-plus warehouse pricing engine
• Landed Cost Calculatorsister tool for import landed cost

Standalone web application. No dependencies on other SHT tools. Every number in the quotation has a source — personnel costs from your wage tables, investment costs from actual equipment prices, space costs from the real lease rate.