# Revenue is cost plus profit
#permanentnote
## Source
- [[training - Strategic cost management]]
## Keywords (topics and howto)
- [[topic - supply chain]]
- [[how to be a better advisor]]
- [[how to be a better leader]]
## Relevant notes
## Notes
- Revenue is cost + profit
- Usually in P&L document you get that revenue - cost = profit. Yet simply moving cost on the other side of the equation offers a new view it gets obvious that reducing cost will increase profit. And that reduction in cost is the work of procurement.
- 70% of costs of a company are external costs that procurment manages.