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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 landed cost per unit across SKUs (purchase + duty + freight + handling). Rising trend indicates margin compression upstream.

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Calculation

Calculated automatically from your Oracle ERP Cloud 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

30D avg landed cost moved from 32.40to32.40 to 35.80 (+10.5%). Hits the alert. Drill: freight component up 18% (carrier rate increases); duty up 3%; purchase price flat. Action: pricing review needed to pass through cost increase.

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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 Oracle ERP Cloud:
Cost Management → Landed Cost Management → Manage Charges OTBI → Cost Management Real Time
Cross-connector reconciliation: Internal Oracle metric.

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Known limitations / merchant FAQs

LCM module required? Yes for full landed cost. Without LCM the card sums purchase price only. Multi-currency import? Each cost component translated to ledger currency.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

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