MODEL OVERVIEW
 
Contract manufacturing is a business arrangement where a company hires a third-party manufacturer to produce its products based on the company's specifications, design, and branding. The hiring company retains ownership of the product concept and often handles marketing and sales, while the contract manufacturer handles the actual production process. This approach allows businesses to reduce costs, speed up production, and focus on core functions like design, marketing, and sales.
 
Our highly versatile and user-friendly Excel model allows for the preparation of an 5-year rolling 3 statement (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash flow Statement) financial projection with a monthly timeline for a startup or existing business outsourcing manufacturing.
 
The model allows the user to model up to 15 product categories across 3 sales channels (retail in-store, retail online and/or B2B wholesale) with full manufacturing and other landed costs, detailed payment structure, production lead times, ordering cycles, inventory calculations and R&D costs. In addition model includes projections for staff costs, marketing costs, other operating costs, fixed assets, borrowings, sales tax, corporate tax and dividend distributions.
 
The model follows good practice financial modelling principles and includes instructions, line-item explanations, checks and input validations and incorporates a discounted cash flow valuation calculation using the projected cash flows.
 
 
KEY OUTPUTS
 
Projected full financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash flow Statement) presented on a monthly basis across 5 years and summarised on an annual basis.
Dashboard with:
Summarised projected Income Statement and Balance Sheet;
Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) for each summarised income statement and balance sheet line item;
Key ratios including inventory turnover, stock to sales ratio, sales per employee, average revenue growth, average profit margins, average return on assets and equity and average debt to equity ratio;
Tables and Bar charts summarising revenue and gross profit by product category
Charts and graphs showing: cash balance by month, free cash flow generation, cash flow statement breakdown, profit margins, income statement breakdown, net cash vs net income, working capital, valuation and capital structure.
Discounted cash flow valuation using the projected cash flow output.
Breakeven analysis
 
 
KEY INPUTS
 
Setup Inputs:
Name of business;
Currency;
First projection year and month;
Naming for product categories, staff costs, R&D costs, marketing costs, admin costs, fixed assets and borrowings;
 
Actuals Inputs:
Opening balance sheet (for existing businesses);
Income Statement actuals (for trend analysis);
 
Projection Inputs:
Product details including manufacturing costs, other landed costs, cost inflation, wholesale markup percentage, retail mark-up percentage, minimum stock level, production lead times, ordering frequency per annum and payment structure to manufacturer;
Revenue inputs including sales volumes, price inflation, split by sales channel, credit terms offered for B2B sales;
R&D Costs including capitalizable and noncapitalisable portions and useful life for capitalizable portion;
Other costs inputs including admin staff costs, marketing costs and admin costs;
Sales and corporate tax inputs including rate and payment periods;
Dividend inputs including amount (percentage of retained earnings) and frequency;
Fixed Assets including addition amounts and useful life;
Borrowings including addition amounts and interest rate;
Share Capital additions;
Discount rate inputs (for valuation calculation).
 
 
MODEL STRUCTURE
 
The model comprises of 9 tabs split into input ('i_'), calculation ('c_'), output ('o_’) and system tabs. The tabs to be populated by the user are the input tabs ('i_Setup', ‘i_Actuals’ and 'i_Assumptions'). The calculation tab uses the user-defined inputs to calculate and produce the projection outputs which are presented in 'o_Fin Stats', ‘o_Dashboard’ and ‘o_DCF’.
 
 
KEY FEATURES
 
The model contains a flexible timeline that allows for a mix of actual and forecast periods across a 5-year period. This allows projections to be easily rolled forward as forecast periods become actual period;
Timeline is split on a monthly basis and summarised on an annual basis; 
The model is not password protected and can be modified as required following download;
The model allows the user to model up to 15 product categories each with their own unique combination of retail and wholesale prices, sales demand, manufacturing and other landed costs, ordering cycles, production lead times, and minimum stock quantities;
The model allows for the following number of underlying categories for each line item (these can be easily expanded if required):
Product categories – 15 categories;
Staff costs – 8 categories;
R&D Costs – 5 categories;
Marketing costs – 5 categories;
Other expenses – 15 categories;
Fixed assets – 5 categories;
Borrowings – 3 facilities
Apart from projecting revenue and costs the model includes the possibility to model fixed assets, borrowings (amortising), dividends and corporate tax;
Business name, currency, starting projection period are fully customisable;
Revenue, cost and fixed asset descriptions are fully customisable;
The model included an integrated discounted cash flow valuation using the projected cash flow outputs;
The model includes instructions, line-item explanations, checks and input validations to help ensure input fields are populated accurately; 
The model includes a checks dashboard which summarises all the checks included in the various tabs making it easier to identify any errors. 
 
 
MODIFICATIONS & SUPPORT
 
If you require any be-spoke modifications or support, we are more than happy to assist. Please send us a message below or contact us on hello@useprojectify.com