Application Domains

The reporting problem specific to each sector we work in

Femtus works across capital projects, industrial operations, professional services, healthcare, and consumer brands, among the sectors shown below. The problem is not sector-specific: data held in systems that do not talk to each other, and reporting assembled by hand each month. If that describes your organisation, the sector matters less than the shape of the problem.

Capital Projects & Infrastructure

Capital construction and infrastructure delivery programmes generate cost, schedule, and progress data from dozens of contractors, each reporting in a different format and on a different cycle. Reconciling it consumes the time that should go to acting on it, and by the time a variance is confirmed, it has often already compounded.

Operational EnvironmentCapital construction, infrastructure delivery, mega project portfolios
Client OutcomeCost, schedule, and risk visibility leadership can rely on, in time to act on it.

Manufacturing & Industrial Operations

Production output, downtime, and cost data live in separate systems on the plant floor and in finance, and the two rarely agree on what a shift actually cost or produced. Operations reports one number, finance closes the month on another, and nobody is certain which one is right.

Operational EnvironmentManufacturing plants, industrial operators, multi-site production environments
Client OutcomeOne reconciled view of production cost and output that operations and finance both work from.

Energy & Utilities

Asset and network performance data is collected for operational purposes on one cycle and for regulatory reporting on another, and the two are reconciled by hand before every submission. Leadership sees an operational picture that does not match what was just reported externally.

Operational EnvironmentGeneration, transmission, and distribution operators, regulated utilities
Client OutcomeOne set of asset and performance figures that operational and regulatory reporting both draw from.

Logistics & Supply Chain

Inventory, fulfilment, and carrier performance data sit in separate systems across sites and partners, and cost-to-serve gets calculated differently depending on who is asked. Leadership cannot get one number for what it actually costs to deliver an order.

Operational EnvironmentMulti-site distribution, freight and carrier networks, warehouse and fulfilment operations
Client OutcomeA consistent view of cost-to-serve and delivery performance across sites and carriers.

Professional Services

Consulting and advisory firms bill by the hour and by the project, yet many still track profitability and resource utilisation through spreadsheets rebuilt every month by hand. The reporting arrives too late to influence the decisions it should inform, and it rarely agrees with what finance is tracking separately.

Operational EnvironmentConsulting firms, advisory practices, professional services organisations
Client OutcomeProfitability and utilisation visibility that arrives in time to act on it.

Healthcare Operations

Healthcare organisations run departments that each record and report operational information their own way, under constant regulatory and reporting pressure. Leadership ends up with figures that cannot be compared across departments, cannot easily be traced back to their source, and rarely use the same definition of the same measure.

Operational EnvironmentHospital and clinical operations teams, multi-department healthcare providers, healthcare groups operating across sites
Client OutcomeOperational visibility leadership can rely on, in an environment where the traceability of a figure matters as much as the figure.

Enterprise & Multi-Divisional Groups

Enterprise organisations managing several business units or divisions typically receive performance reporting that each unit has built independently, using its own definitions and its own cadence. Group leadership ends up comparing figures that are not actually comparable.

Operational EnvironmentCorporate head office operations, multi-divisional enterprises, holding companies
Client OutcomeConsolidated reporting leadership can compare across the organisation with confidence.

E-commerce & Consumer Brands

Multi-channel commerce brands hold their commercial picture across separate systems for storefront, advertising, fulfilment, returns, and accounting. True product-level and channel-level profitability ends up assembled by hand, late, and disputed by the time anyone sees it.

Operational EnvironmentMulti-channel retail and direct-to-consumer brands, marketplace sellers, brands operating across several regions or storefronts
Client OutcomeA reliable view of contribution and profitability by product, channel, and region, rather than a revenue figure that hides its own costs.

The problem is not sector-specific

The sectors above are where we have worked most. The problem is not sector-specific: data held in systems that do not talk to each other, departments measuring the same thing differently, and reporting assembled by hand each month. If that describes your organisation, the industry matters less than the shape of the problem.