Analyze subcontracting with the enhanced Manufacturing Power BI app

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Users, automatically - Apr 1, 2026

Business value

You can now gain better visibility into subcontracted manufacturing activities with subcontracted costs and subcontractor work centers included by default in the Manufacturing Power BI app. Their availability helps increase accuracy in production cost analysis and improves insight into outsourced work across your operations. With new subcontracting filters available on each report page, you can focus reporting on internal production, external subcontracting, or a combination of both. This flexibility supports more informed planning, cost control, and performance analysis across your manufacturing processes.

Feature details

The Manufacturing Power BI app now includes subcontracted costs and subcontractor work centers by default. However, you're in control of whether to include subcontracting costs in your reports for manufacturing. On each report page, the Subcontracting filter lets you specify whether to include or exclude subcontracted costs from manufacturing reports. The filter also lets you control whether to include, exclude, or only show manufacturing insights for work centers assigned to a subcontractor.

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