TCO Report: Simple TCO Factors

The primary purpose of the Simple TCO Factors page is to provide a way to analysis CPP and TCO costs with minimal selections and configuration, therefore producing results with ease and making it possible for the average user to use this report. When you've completed the selections for the TCO factors, click the Apply to Entire Fleet button to save your settings. You're now ready to generate a Fleet Overview report, or if you've created more than one analysis period, you may generate the Fleet Comparison report.

TCO Factors:
The TCO report uses up to 4 factors to apply costs including, Purchase, Delivery, Service and Consumables.

Filter Devices:
This option allows you to filter All, Managed or Non-Managed devices to be presented in the Advanced TCO Factors editing page.

Purchase Costs:
The default option is to exclude this factor from the TCO calculations. Options allow you to select from previous assigned costs, specify a fleet CPP, MSRP, dealer costs, or the costs vary. The dealer assigned costs are specified or imported using the Parts & Service module, and you have the option to select which period to apply, along with a customer discount.

Delivery Costs:
The default option is to exclude this factor from the TCO calculations. Options allow you to select from previous assigned costs, dealer costs, or the costs vary. The dealer assigned costs are specified or imported using the Parts & Service module, and you have the option to select which period to apply, along with a customer discount. Selecting the option to specify your own costs will expand this section showing relevant fields to populate.

Service Costs:
The default option is to exclude this factor from the TCO calculations. Options allow you to select from previous assigned costs, dealer costs, or the costs vary. The dealer assigned costs are specified or imported using the Parts & Service module, and you have the option to select which period to apply, along with a customer discount. Selecting the option to specify your own costs will expand this section showing relevant fields to populate.

Consumable Costs:
The default option is to exclude this factor from the TCO calculations. Options allow you to select from previous assigned costs, national average costs or dealer costs. The national average costs are extracted from the FMAudit Side-by-Side database, which is a centrally stored database that is updated directly by FMAudit on a periodic basis from various sources such as OEM's and national supply chains. The dealer assigned costs are specified or imported using the Parts & Service module, and you have the option to select which period to apply, along with a customer discount. The toner coverage defaults to 5%, however supported devices such as HP LaserJet's with an e-chip on the cartridge will override this value and use the true toner coverage reported by the device. Optionally you can use the average toner coverage of the supported devices, assuming there is like printing on the rest of the network, or specify custom coverage values broken down on a CMYK basis.

View Ignored Device:
Devices which are included in a single audit only, or which are either unidentifiable or don't contain the necessary meter information fall into the Ignored Devices category.

Note that the Dealer Values Period(s) are considered from the entire Parent Dealer Hierarchy of the selected account, from the Parent account, back to the top of the hierarchy.