Fiscal Command Engine

Target Audience: CFO, Private Equity Partner, VP of Finance
Core Value: Real-Time Profitability & Cash Flow Velocity

The Problem: The "Phantom Profit" Trap

In custom manufacturing, financial health is traditionally a lagging indicator. Operators quote a job at $50k expecting a 20% margin, but overtime labor, material price surges, and rework eat the profit invisibly. The business owner doesn't realize the loss until the month-end close—30 days too late to fix it.

The Solution: Real-Time Margin Visibility

I architected a proprietary Fiscal Command Engine that unifies "Operations" (Making Things) and "Finance" (Counting Money). By linking real-time labor injection and material usage directly to the invoicing layer, the system generates a Live P&L for every single project. We moved the organization from "Month-End Close" to "Job-End Close".

The Commercial ROI

1. Accelerated Cash Cycle: Reduced Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) by eliminating the 3-5 day administrative lag between "Item Shipped" and "Invoice Sent".

2. Data-Driven Pricing: Identified margin-bleeding product lines via aggregated P&L data, allowing Sales to adjust pricing models immediately.

3. Three-Way Match: Enforced a strict PO → Receipt → Invoice workflow, preventing payment for phantom inventory.

Technical Architecture

• Atomic Transactions: Utilized Firestore writeBatch operations to enforce ACID-like compliance on payment logs, ensuring payment recording and invoice status updates happen as a single atomic unit.

• Granular Cost Injection: Implemented CostSettingsView to inject specific, hourly-burdened labor rates for every employee, enabling precise job costing.

• Client-Side Rendering: Engineered a rendering engine using html2canvas and jspdf to generate invoices instantly from the user's state, eliminating server latency.