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Metrics type: Supporting Metrics • Category: Ecommerce Platform
Actual landed cost vs standard (planned) cost. Variance signals supply-chain or pricing changes upstream.

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At a glance

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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 (Standard Costing on Items). 30D window: ELEC-LAPTOP-A14 standard 14.20/actual14.20 / actual 15.40 = +8.5% unfavourable variance. Cumulative variance dollars: $32K negative on 26.7K units shipped. Signals procurement or supplier issue.

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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:
Reports > Inventory > Inventory Cost Variance Item Card > Statistics
Why may differ: Cross-connector reconciliation: No commerce-side counterpart.

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Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Only for Standard-cost Items? Yes. FIFO/Average Items have no Standard reference; the variance card hides for them. Variance dollars vs %? Both shown. When to update Standard Cost? Annually or when material vendor pricing changes occur. Revaluation Journal handles the inventory adjustment.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Landed Cost Variance vs Standard 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.