Exclusive Webinar to Outline How Discrete Manufacturing and Product Companies
Can Drive Costs Out of Products Before Production
Concord, Mass. – March 24, 2008 – Join aPriori and special guest AGCO Corporation on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 2 PM ET for a one-hour webinar exclusively for Discrete Manufacturing & Product Companies and learn how real-time, precise product cost assessments are helping leading companies drive costs out of their product before production.
David Disberger, Director of Engineering at AGCO Corporation, will discuss how AGCO is using aPriori’s Enterprise Cost Management platform to improve the quality and timeliness of its product cost numbers. “With better product cost information, AGCO employees are making better trade-off decisions that route costs out of our products much earlier in the development process,” said Disberger.
Session attendees will learn how to:
- Gain real-time visibility to product cost information from initial design through production launch
- Implement design-to-cost strategies earlier in the development process
- Reduce direct material spend to improve financial results
To register for the aPriori webinar, visit www.apriori.com or go to https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/875249418.
The aPriori Enterprise Cost Management Platform is the first software solution to provide discrete manufacturers and product companies with real-time, predictive and precise product cost assessments throughout the entire development and production process. aPriori’s revolutionary cost management capabilities empower organizations to identify quantifiable savings in material, tooling, labor and overhead while evaluating alternative designs, processes and sources. By generating cost assessments early in the product development process, aPriori customers drive significant costs out of their products prior to production, reducing cost of goods sold (COGS) by whole percentage points and improving the overall financial results of the company.
Through an innovative, patented understanding of how product design, materials and manufacturing processes translate into product costs, aPriori replaces traditional, inefficient cost-estimation techniques with precise cost assessments that update in real-time as parameters change. aPriori provides true cost visibility to everyone in the organization that impacts cost -- designers, manufacturing engineers and planners, purchasing and sourcing professionals, cost managers, program management and executives.
About aPriori
The aPriori Enterprise Cost Management software platform improves the financial results of discrete manufacturing and product companies by enabling them to actively control Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) with real-time, predictive and precise product cost assessments. aPriori’s proven and patent-protected software platform allows companies to assess, control and reduce the cost of their products in real time, at any time during design, sourcing and manufacture. This enables companies to understand the cost impact of product design decisions earlier than ever before, reduce their Cost of Goods Sold, and improve operating margins. The aPriori platform is rapidly deployable across the extended enterprise, up and running in a matter of weeks generating cost assessments reflecting a customer’s factories’ and suppliers’ capabilities. For more information or to view an online demonstration, visit www.apriori.com.