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Department financials

How much do each of the Departments contribute to the business's success, as a primary activity in the value chain or as a support activity.

Support activities have a hard case to make. Sam Walton's rule was support activities, the corporate bureaucracy, should not cost more than 2% of sales. How are you doing?

Here you express your departments role as a percent of sales. It may be by employee, or square foot per store, geographic region, etc.

What do you contribute to gross and the net profit margin?

As the company grows, what is your incremental costs per customer, product, etc.