Part of mPorts OMS
Don’t just read the numbers. Know what needs attention.
Business analytics in mPorts OMS puts what the warehouse billed, how long your stock has sat and what each order earned next to the products, warehouses and orders behind them. The same system brings forward the stock that is running low, the orders that have stopped moving and the charges that do not match your rate card — so the team starts from the cause, asks the assistant what happened, and acts from the same place.
The questions the business should answer for you
Each one is a screen in mPorts OMS today, read from the warehouse’s own billing and stock records or from your orders.
Why did warehouse cost go up?
Cost Explorer shows the last 180 days of your warehouse provider’s charges by fee type, warehouse and month, from the provider’s own records — so a rise is traced to the fee and the warehouse behind it.
Which products have been sitting the longest?
Stock age by SKU and warehouse, from the newest stock to what has sat more than ninety days, with the oldest lot on shelf.
Where are we spending the most on fulfillment?
Fulfillment spend by warehouse and by month, and fulfillment cost per order billed, next to storage and total cost.
What did this order actually earn?
Revenue less marketplace commission, product cost and shipping, per order. Anything unknown is shown as unknown, never as zero.
What does each SKU cost us to hold and ship?
Storage and fulfillment allocated to each SKU — allocated, because the warehouse bills per warehouse and per order, and the screen says so.
Did the warehouse charge something our rate card does not cover?
Each billed fee type checked against the rate card you agreed, with overcharges, missing charges and unknown charges listed for review.
Reports you can run, save and export
The Reports screen: each report with what it covers, its last run and a run button. Saved reports run again on demand; every run is kept, and results export to CSV or Excel.
One experience, from the number to the next step
Seeing the cost is the start. The point is that the operation tells the team what has changed, explains it, and lets them act without leaving.
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See it
Warehouse cost by fee type, warehouse and month. Stock age by SKU and warehouse. Profit and loss per order. Allocated cost per SKU. Reports you save, re-run and export.
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Ask it
Ask the assistant what the warehouse billed by fee type and warehouse, look up a product or an inventory balance, or list which reports have run. Stock age and per-SKU cost are screens you open today.
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Watch it
The system notifies the team when stock at a warehouse falls below its floor, when orders stop moving past thresholds you set, and when an exception goes stale. Charges outside your rate card are listed for review. Cost by month sits beside last month.
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Act on it
Every signal opens the queue or record behind it. From there the team decides — change the warehouse for an order, requote a shipment, resubmit to the warehouse — and mPorts carries out the confirmed step and records it.
One rising cost, worked end to end
Storage cost is climbing at one warehouse and nobody is sure which products are behind it.
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See
Cost Explorer shows storage charges at one warehouse up two months running, from the provider’s own billing lines.
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Investigate
Days in Inventory for that warehouse: the units in the oldest age band, by SKU, with the date each lot arrived.
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Explain
Per-SKU cost puts the allocated storage next to each of those SKUs, so the team can see which ones the charge is really following.
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Decide
The team decides what to do with the slow stock — a decision the numbers inform, and a person makes.
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Record
Next month’s Cost Explorer shows whether the storage line came down.
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Warehouse cost
What the provider billed, by fee type, warehouse and month, over the last 180 days.
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Stock age
How long stock has sat, by SKU and warehouse, in age bands, with the oldest lot on shelf.
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Order profit and loss
Revenue less commission, product cost and shipping, per order; unknowns shown as unknown.
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Per-SKU cost, allocated
Storage and fulfillment allocated to each SKU from the warehouse’s bill, labelled as allocated.
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Invoice audit
Each billed fee type checked against your rate card; overcharges, missing and unknown charges listed.
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Reports and dashboards
Run, save, re-run and export reports; orders and revenue by product, retailer and region.
Billed, allocated, or unknown — the screen tells you which
A warehouse bills storage per warehouse and fulfillment per order, not per SKU. When mPorts shows a cost per SKU, it has allocated the bill — storage by the units on hand, fulfillment by the units in each order — and the screen says “allocated”. When a part of an order’s margin is not known, it is shown as unknown rather than as zero, and an estimated commission is marked as estimated. What the provider billed is shown as billed.
Questions buyers ask
Where do the cost numbers come from?
From your warehouse provider’s own billing records, brought in through mPorts connectivity, and from your orders and shipments. Per-SKU cost is an allocation of those bills and is labelled as such.
How do I see margin?
Order profit and loss shows revenue less commission, product cost and shipping for every order, and you can filter it by channel and date. A margin roll-up by SKU or by channel is something we would scope with you; the per-order view is what ships today.
Which of these questions can the AI assistant answer?
Today the assistant breaks down what the warehouse billed by fee type and warehouse, looks up products and inventory balances, and lists report runs. Stock age and per-SKU cost are screens you open in mPorts OMS.
Can we export to our own BI tool?
Reports export to CSV and Excel. Getting data into another tool on a schedule is a scoping question we would work through with you.
See what mPorts can watch for you.
Tell us which costs, which stock and which orders someone checks by hand today. We will show you what the operation would bring forward instead.