Concord, Mass. – May 13, 2009 – aPriori today announced that NCR Corporation has selected the aPriori Product Cost Management Platform to support its product cost reduction initiatives. The aPriori software is designed to help increase NCR’s ability to drive costs out of its products before production through real-time product cost assessments that are automatically generated throughout the design and manufacturing planning processes.
NCR is a leading provider of innovative self-service and assisted service solutions that help businesses in multiple industries around the world experience a new world of interaction with their customers.
“aPriori has demonstrated to us that they can provide a meaningful impact on our efforts to drive costs out of our products, unlike any tool we have evaluated in the past,” said Jeff Cegalis, Vice President of Engineering. “aPriori’s real-time access to cost information will improve our ability to make product trade-off decisions, ultimately resulting in a measurable reduction in product and manufacturing costs.”
NCR anticipates that full global deployment of the aPriori platform to its mechanical engineers and commodity managers will be completed during the third quarter of this year.
“NCR represents an important addition to our list of customers,” said Stephanie Feraday, President and CEO at aPriori. “We believe that aPriori’s capability to instantly tell an engineer the cost of any change they make to a product design is perfectly suited for the fast-paced environment of high technology companies where time-to-market is critically important. aPriori will be used by designers, engineers, manufacturing engineers and sourcing specialists throughout every NCR facility in the world to quickly understand the cost of each tradeoff decision they make. We look forward to working closely with NCR to ensure this deployment is highly successful for their business.”
About NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation is a global technology company and leader in automated teller machines, self-checkouts and other self- and assisted-service solutions, serving customers in more than 100 countries. NCR's software, hardware, consulting and support services help organizations in retail, financial, travel, healthcare and other industries interact with consumers across multiple channels.
About aPriori
The aPriori Product 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 .
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