Growth & Portfolio Intelligence
COP Visibility Agent
Daily cost of production per MT, reconciled from the plant data you already produce.
Target outcome: Daily COP visibility
The business problem
1 to 2% revenue, over 2% EBITDA from SKU focus
Month-end COP is a discovery exercise. Finance teams stitch plant emails, Excel MIS, and ERP exports every morning while cost overruns surface weeks too late to act.
What we deploy
COP Visibility Agent
Reconciles plant emails, Excel MIS, and ERP exports into one daily COP figure per MT with every number traced to its source. Variance interrogation and escalation without leaving the dashboard.
How this agent runs
Every agent follows the same operating loop on your stack: audit the evidence, decide with confidence scores, execute with human approval, and record results back to your systems.
Audit
Full coverage on the transactions and documents you choose: contracts, invoices, dispatches, disputes.
Decide
Confidence-scored recommendations with counterfactuals, tax feasibility, and policy rules applied first.
Execute
Human-in-the-loop for consequential actions. Agents prepare; your team approves.
Record
Clean results posted back to your ERP, WMS, or operational systems with a full audit trail.
What we need from you
Data and systems
- ERP and WMS sales, margin, and inventory history
- SKU master, plant/BU hierarchy, and planning calendars
- Existing BI or spreadsheet definitions leadership already trusts
Typical timeline
Portfolio or forecast workbench in 8 to 12 weeks. Executive consolidation views follow once definitions are aligned.
8 to 12 weeks on your exports and operational data. A defensible outcome number before you commit to rollout. We agree the baseline and success metric before deployment starts.
Key capabilities
Reconcile live plant sources into one daily COP figure per MT
Tag every number to the source that fed it for audit
Interrogate variances, assign owners, and escalate to CFO view in one place
How we deploy it
8 to 12 weeks on your exports and operational data. A defensible outcome number before you commit to rollout. Same operating model on every agent: scope, deploy, measure, then scale or hand off.
Scope
Agree one outcome, baseline KPI, and the exports or systems the agent will read.
Deploy
Agent live on your ERP, WMS, or operational files within the engagement window.
Measure
Track results against the baseline with named transactions and audit trails.
Scale
Expand to adjacent modules or run independently. You own the code from day one.
Good fit if
- Daily COP assembly takes hours across multiple plants
- Month-end variance is the first time leadership sees a move
- Procurement learns about material cost spikes after the fact
Production module in the field
COP Dashboard
Case studies, module depth, and technical FAQs for the platform this agent runs on.
Frequently asked questions
What does the COP Visibility Agent do?+
It reconciles plant emails, Excel MIS, and ERP exports into one daily cost-of-production figure per MT, with every number tagged to its source.
Do we need to change our ERP?+
No. The agent is built on existing plant data exports and validated against your manual COP process before go-live.
Can we interrogate a variance inside the dashboard?+
Yes. Users ask why a number moved, flag procurement, assign owners, or escalate to the CFO view without leaving the dashboard.
How long until we see daily COP live?+
Most pilots go live in 8 to 12 weeks on your existing data exports, depending on plant count and source quality.
Is this the same as COP Intelligence for Mining?+
No. COP Visibility is for process manufacturers (metals, cement, chemicals). Mining uses the Mine Cost Reconciliation Agent on the COP Mining module.
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Ready to scope this agent?
8 to 12 weeks on your exports and operational data. A defensible outcome number before you commit to rollout.