Is my unit cost database making my margin thinner every year
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Probably yes, if your unit costs are static and the design keeps moving underneath them.
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<p>Probably yes, if your unit costs are static and the design keeps moving underneath them.</p>
<p>Here is what usually thins margin: your pricing lives in one file, your model lives somewhere else, and every design change forces you to go re-check both. You re-do a takeoff. You chase which export is current. You guess at a rate. Small errors multiply across thousands of line items.</p>
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<p>If your database is stale and your takeoffs are slow, margin leaks in both places.</p>