Operating in a highly regulated defense environment, the client required precise, batch-level cost visibility to support accurate financial reporting and decision-making. However, cost variances were aggregated across processes, limiting transparency into the underlying drivers of cost fluctuations such as price, exchange rate and operational performance. Month-end valuation activities relied heavily on manual effort, increasing cycle times and the risk of errors. As a result, the organisation lacked the detailed cost insight needed to reliably assess profitability at the individual sales order level.