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The work order is where cost is born. Aleq is the ledger that tracks it.

Aleq is the books for manufacturers — it carries WIP through standard costing, isolates purchase-price, labor, and overhead variances, and relieves COGS off the bill of materials as each work order completes.

See it on your booksHow it works
synced from your ERP & floor data · ties to the ledger
Work-in-process · livelive
WIP balance$1,640,000
Standard COGS this month$2,210,000
PPV · labor · overheadNet variance$(48,200)
Gross margin34.8%
Relieved on completion · ties to the GLreconciled
work-in-process · costed from the ledger
34.8%
Gross marginby product line, from the GL
$1.64M
WIP valueby work order, daily
$48.2K
Net varianceisolated by type
$0.00
Subledger-to-GL varianceinventory ties out
The reality today

Standard cost drifts, and variances pile up in one mystery account.

Materials, labor, and overhead flow into work orders, but actuals diverge from standard the moment a price moves or a line runs slow. Variances accumulate in a catch-all that gets analyzed quarterly, if ever. WIP is a guess, and the margin you report is a roll-up of estimates. Aleq tracks cost from work order to finished good and posts each variance where it belongs.

the close, by hand
ERP / MESRouting sheetsExcel varianceNetSuitequarter-end
one ledger — read, derived, posted, signed
How it works

A work order closes. Variances, isolated.

Actuals diverge from standard the moment a price moves or a line runs slow. Aleq costs each order off the BOM, builds finished goods, and posts every variance to its own account — not one catch-all line.

Work order · WO-2261 · 500 unitsderived
1
Read · materials, labor, overhead
Accumulated cost through the floor
Materials issued$182,000
Labor logged$44,500
Overhead applied$38,000
2
Costed · off the BOM at standard
Compared actual to engineered cost
Standard cost$260,000
Actual cost$264,500
Total variance$(4,500)
3
Booked · finished goods + variances
Each variance to its own account
DRFinished goods500 × $520 standard$260,000
DRMaterial-usage variance$3,100
DRLabor-efficiency variance$1,400
CRWork-in-process$264,500
Variances isolated · margin reconcilesposted
What Aleq runsautonomous
WIP carried through the floorAleq maintains a work-in-process subledger by work order, accumulating material, labor, and applied overhead, then relieves it to finished goods on completion.
Standard costing off the BOMEach product is costed from its bill of materials and routing at standard, so issued materials and consumed labor value automatically against the engineered cost.
Variances isolated and postedPurchase-price (PPV), material-usage, labor-rate and efficiency, and overhead variances are each computed and posted to their own account — not a single mystery line.
COGS relieved on completionWhen a work order closes, finished-goods inventory is built and, on shipment, COGS is relieved at standard with variances flowing to the income statement.
Gross margin you can trustStandard COGS plus identified variances roll into gross margin by product line, so the margin you report reconciles to what the floor actually cost.
what Aleq does

The books for manufacturing, run for you.

Aleq is the system of record and the controller that runs it — it does this work autonomously, inside your policy, and signs every move. Not a tool your team feeds; the colleague that closes the books.

the whole close

And it runs the rest of your close, too.

The cost roll is the hard part in manufacturing — but Aleq is the whole ledger around it, from the raw-material PO to the bank.

Procurement · three-way match

Raw-material POs matched to receipt and bill.

Bank reconciliation

Deposits and payments matched to the bank, nightly.

Order-to-cash · AR

Customer invoices, receipts, and collections.

Continuous close

Accruals and the month sealed, day by day.

Plant & equipment leases

ROU and lease liability, derived under ASC 842.

Multi-entity

Plants and divisions consolidated into one close.

Tax & provision

Filings watched, the provision kept current.

General ledger

Every cost traceable, always balanced.

From the field
“Materials, labor, and overhead flow into work orders, but actuals diverge from standard the moment a price moves. Variances pile up in a catch-all we analyze quarterly, if ever.”
Cost accountant · contract manufacturer
ERP / MESRouting sheetsExcelNetSuitequarter-end
What Aleq does instead

Aleq carries WIP by work order, costs it off the bill of materials at standard, and posts purchase-price, usage, labor, and overhead variances each to its own account the day the order closes — so reported margin reconciles to the floor.

the whole batch, before you open itposted
built on the standards you live on

It speaks your accounting natively.

The standards and subledgers your model runs on — derived and posted by Aleq, not configured by you.

ASC 842 · Plant & equipmentASC 330 (inventory & WIP)Standard costingBill of materials / routingPPV & usage variancesLabor & overhead absorptionWork-order subledger

Analyzing variances a quarter too late?

Connect your ERP and bank read-only. In 48 hours Aleq rebuilds WIP and posts a period's variances by type, signed.

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