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Product costing & Carbon footprint software

Calculate product costs and carbon footprints and carry out Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with CALC4XL. Access global benchmark data and AI-supported calculation. CALC4XL - fully Excel integrated and Microsoft certificated.
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Negotiate better through transparent figures

With CALC4XL, purchasers, controllers and sales staff are strengthened for upcoming price negotiations, conduct effective supplier benchmarking and convince with comprehensible product calculations. The comprehensible calculation schemes, manufacturing process calculators and worldwide benchmark data enable the detection of cost and carbon footprint drivers and thus offer efficient design optimization.

Product costing for purchasing, controlling and development

CALC4XL was born out of many years of experience in industrial costing. The question was: Why do specialized costing tools always have to be so complex and expensive, when studies show that most practitioners in this field still work with Excel?

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CALC4XL Product Costing -Calculations made easy

  • Fast installation without IT hurdles
  • Familiar Excel working environment
  • Exchange with all Excel users
  • Worldwide benchmark database
    • Country and overhead costs
    • Machine costs
    • International labor costs
    • Material and volume calculator
    • Manufacturing processes (cycle times)
  • Central knowledge database
    • Pre-calculated components
    • Your Excel templates and data
  • Accompanying consulting
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CALC4XL & Carbon Footprint -Step by step to a great future

Calculation according to PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) Guideline of the European Commission:

  • LCIA (Life Cycle Impact Assessment) is performed...
  • ... in IPCC 2021 Standard (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)...
  • ... by means of values for GWP 100 [kgCO2eq] (Global Warming Potential 100 years)
  • Focus on "market" values, which include indirect impacts such as transport.
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CALC4XL.AI & Carbon Footprint -AI-supported calculation

CALC4XL.AI – Smarter costing with AI

Create AI-assisted product cost and CO₂ calculations directly in Excel. Train CALC4XL.AI with your own calculations and apply your expertise to new components. Reduce manual effort with transparent results that you can review and adjust at any time.

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Global benchmark data for your product costing ...

  • full cost database with benchmark data for countries, overheads, wages, machines
  • various manufacturing process cycle time calculators
  • calculation schemes for components and assemblies - comprehensible and individually adaptable
  • pre-calculated components as templates
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Calculate carbon footprints and carry out Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) ...

  • CO2 database with footprint costs for countries, material, machines
  • calculation according to PEF (Product Environmental Footprint)
  • focus on "market" values, which include indirect impacts such as transport
  • output of environmental impact* of cradle-to-gate w/o any additional effort for user
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CALC4XL.AI – AI supported calculation ...

Calculate product costs and carbon emissions in Excel with AI support

  • Train your own AI model using existing calculations
  • Apply your costing expertise to new components
  • Reduce manual effort through automated calculations
  • Review transparent results and adapt them to your requirements
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The Excel approach ...

  • CALC4XL is stand-alone yet transparently integrated into Excel (add-in)
  • no IT hurdles, ready to use in 10 seconds
  • modifiable and extensible by your Excel know-how and own templates of any file type
  • no additional application complexity
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The additional features ...

  • complete security through our patented rights and role system on every Excel cell
  • multilingual (German/English)
  • create secure, company-wide Excel templates via the CALC4XL template module
  • multi-user, offline as well as completely online capable
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Share costing data and integrate systems ...

  • fully modularized - use CALC4XL as a complete system or integration of individual data sets and modules in existing solution
  • integrated throughout - Excel interfaces to all common SW systems (SAP, Oracle, Navision, etc.)
  • free CALC4XL viewer - calculation exchange in Excel
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Industry 4.0 ...

  • affordable, understandable solution to activate all employees/departments
  • cross-company knowledge domain for digital exchange of benchmark data and manufacturing process computers
  • highly customizable software to meet requirement of Industry 4.0 dynamics ... Costing 4.0: Internet of Things interfaces for digital costing of the entire value chain
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What you see is what you get …

CALC4XL - test it now 30 days for free!

Customer success with CALC4XL

ASM INTERNATIONAL
ASMPT_SMT Solutions
AXOR hansgrohe
Bain & Company
Basler AG
Bekum
BOS
BSR Software
Capgemini
Caresoft
CostCenter
Dometic
dormakaba
Eberspächer
EBIT engineers
Faiveley Transport
FLSmidth
Fonton Daimler Automotive
Fujian Benz
Gainwell
GAPLAST
GGS Engineering Services
GREENoneTEC
Heyko
Hoffmann Group
IAC Partners
Intel
Joysonquin Automotive Systems
Jungheinrich
KK Wind Solutions
Kohl & Sohn
KPIT
Lean Management Consulting
Lusch
Mercedes-Benz Fujian
Oberaigner
Olympus
P3 Group
PA Consulting UK
Plante Moran
PwC
RLE International
Roche
Rosendahl NEXTRON
Schweikert
SHW
Siemens Advanta Vendigital
Sodecia
Sunrise Medical
Tech2Select
Tech Mahindra
Truma
UKAEA
University of Edinburgh
VCST
WAE
Wanzl
Yoda engineering

With CALC4XL, purchasers and sales staff are strengthened for upcoming price negotiations with supplier partners. They perform effective benchmarking and convince with transparent, reproducible and easy-to-follow product calculations.

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Our wide range of services will help you achieve your version of success.

CALC4XL supports companies in times of massive change in order to position themselves future-proof at the top in global competition. From consulting to training, we have a comprehensive suite of services to ensure our clients' success. Our team has the depth and experience in accounting, technology and manufacturing to address your unique needs and challenges when implementing an enterprise-level costing solution.