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Metrics type: Supporting Metrics • Category: Ecommerce Platform
Mean landed cost across SKUs (purchase + duty + freight + handling). Rising trend indicates margin compression upstream.

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At a glance

Mean Item Unit Cost (purchase + Item Charges for duty/freight/handling). Rising trend = margin compression upstream.

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Calculation

Calculated automatically from your Microsoft Dynamics 365 data. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.

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Worked example

US distributor on BC. Avg Unit Cost moved from 14.20to14.20 to 15.40 over 30D = +8.5%. Just below 10% alert threshold. Vendor cost rising on Asian-sourced electronics due to currency + shipping rates. Action: pricing review.

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Sibling cards merchants should reference together

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Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in Business Central:
Item List > Statistics > Unit Cost trend Reports > Inventory > Item Cost Trend
Why may differ: Cross-connector reconciliation: No commerce-side counterpart.

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Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Item Charges allocation method? By value or quantity (BC’s standard options). Configure on the Item Charge Assignment page. FIFO vs Average effect? FIFO uses layer-specific cost; Average smooths. Manufacturing variants? Standard Costing items show Standard Cost variance separately on Landed Cost Variance.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Average Landed Cost per Unit is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.