Multi-level BOM costing
Restructure so each component's cost is defined once and rolls up automatically, making a price revision a single edit rather than a hunt.
India · Maharashtra · Pune
Production planning, BOM costing and shop-floor reporting that matches reality. Looking for an Excel expert, consultant or freelancer around Pune? We cover all of it remotely from India — dashboards, VBA development, data analysis — at hourly rates well under a local contractor's, with the same documented handover either way.
Abhishek
Abhishek Singh
Akhilesh
Prahalad
ShaktiA remote team of Excel and spreadsheet specialists. You work directly with the person building your file, from the first question to the final handover. More about us.
The local picture
Pune's manufacturing belt runs on operational spreadsheets that sit between the ERP and the shop floor. Production plans, BOM costings, supplier schedules, rejection tracking — the ERP holds the master data but the planning and analysis happens in Excel because that is where a planner can actually change something and see the effect. These files are business-critical and almost never built like it.
What we get hired for here
We do a lot of BOM and costing work for Pune engineering firms. A multi-level bill of materials with hundreds of components, costed across suppliers, updated when a material price moves — that is a genuine data-structure problem, not a formula problem. Most of the workbooks we inherit flatten the BOM in a way that makes a price change require touching dozens of cells. Restructuring so a component's cost lives in exactly one place turns a two-day update into a ten-minute one.
Restructure so each component's cost is defined once and rolls up automatically, making a price revision a single edit rather than a hunt.
Reporting that reconciles production plan to actual output and explains the gap by reason code, so the daily meeting starts from agreed facts.
Consolidate quality and delivery performance by supplier into a view that supports an actual vendor conversation.
Typical source data for Pune clients: SAP or Tally ERP extracts, production planning sheets from the plant, supplier rate contracts, quality rejection logs, and the shift-wise output data recorded on the floor.
An illustrative scenario
A composite example built to show method, not a specific client engagement. No client is identified and no outcome is guaranteed.
The BOM was flattened across sheets, and the same component's rate appeared in fourteen places.
We restructure to a component master with one rate per part, and a BOM structure table describing parent-child relationships and quantities.
The roll-up becomes a calculation over those two tables rather than a web of cross-sheet references.
A material price revision is now one edit in the master. Costing across the whole product range recalculates immediately, and scenario comparison becomes possible for the first time.
Working together across time zones
Same time zone, so we work in parallel with your team rather than passing work back and forth.
For a first conversation, the most useful thing to send is how many components you cost, how often rates change, and how long a price revision takes today. You do not need a requirements document, and if the file is sensitive a screen recording works just as well.
The workbook, or a description of what is slow.
Rate, hours and timeline, usually within a day.
Unlocked files, documentation, recorded walkthrough.
Services
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Same time zone, so we work in parallel with your team rather than passing work back and forth.
| Your working day | 09:00–18:00 |
|---|---|
| We are online for live calls | 09:30–19:00 (8.5 hours of direct overlap) |
| Our working day, in your time | 09:30–19:30 |
| Practical effect | Written work progresses outside your hours and is waiting the next morning |
What you get back
Unlocked files and commented code, a written update procedure, a recorded walkthrough, and intellectual property transferred to you. Nothing is hosted with us and nothing stops working if we stop working together.
Meet the teamQuestions
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Ask us something elseWe support Pune clients remotely. Same-time-zone collaboration means same-day responses, screen-sharing calls and direct access to the specialist building your workbook.
Yes, and that is normally the right scope. The ERP stays as the system of record. We rebuild the Excel layer sitting on top of it, which is usually where the costing and planning pain actually is.
It matters for latency, not feasibility. We build for the data you actually have, including a lag, and make the lag visible in the reporting rather than pretending it is not there. Digitising capture is a separate conversation.
Yes, and for shop-floor use we build them defensively — error handling, clear messages, no silent failures. A macro that a plant operator uses daily needs to fail politely, not crash.
Frequently. OEM reporting formats are rigid and each customer wants something slightly different. We build one internal dataset and generate the customer-specific outputs from it, so a format change affects one template rather than your whole process.
By job title
The same people do all of this. We keep a separate page per specialism for Pune because the work each one generates here genuinely differs — and because the job title you search under changes what you find.
Local or remote
There are good reasons to hire someone in Pune, and we would rather set them out than pretend otherwise.
For a workshop, a training session, or a discovery process across several departments, physical presence genuinely helps. We work well over a call, but we will not pretend it is identical.
A local entity, local invoicing, local contract law. For some organisations — public sector especially — that is not negotiable, and no amount of rate advantage changes it.
If a file breaks at 10am and must work by 2pm, somebody in your time zone will usually beat somebody in ours. Our overnight turnaround is an advantage for planned work and a disadvantage for emergencies.
At a consultancy the person who sells the work and the person who writes it are often different people. Here they are the same person, and you have their name.
One local generalist covers whatever they happen to know. A small specialist team covers modelling, VBA, BI and Sheets properly. Which matters more depends entirely on what your file needs.
A local contractor in a major city typically charges several times a remote specialist's hourly rate for output a reviewer could not tell apart. That difference is the whole reason remote delivery exists.
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