The aPriori Enterprise Cost Management Platform

Reduce the Costs of Your Products Prior to Production

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.

Click here to download the aPriori Enterprise Cost Management Platform datasheet.

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 (such as activity-based costing, contract quoting or statistical analysis) 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.

Through a patented understanding of how product design, materials and manufacturing
processes translate into product costs, aPriori automatically generates real-time, predictive
and precise cost assessments throughout the development and production processes.

The aPriori Cost Ticker™ is a compact, real-time display that provides users with an automatic, 
real-time summary of material, labor, overhead and tooling costs every time a change is made to a
design, material type, manufacturing process or factory location.

Next-Generation Capabilities for Automated Product Costing

Real-time Product Cost Assessments enable organizations to identify quantifiable savings in material, tooling, labor and overhead while evaluating alternative designs, processes and sources. Through a patent-protected understanding of product design information, production facility capabilities, cost structure data and customer-specific cost accounting methodologies, aPriori provides predictive and precise product cost assessments throughout the entire development and production process.

Enterprise-Wide Cost Visibility provides real-time cost information to all functional groups that contribute to product costs. aPriori creates a system of record for product cost information, enabling design, manufacturing, procurement and product/program management to interact with a single platform to assess and manage product costs – from concept through delivery.

Virtual Production Environments (VPEs) model the capabilities of real-world production facilities to determine the precise cost to manufacture or source a product. Representing an organization’s (or a supplier’s) actual factories, VPEs capture the manufacturing processes supported in that facility, machines required to support those processes, and the factory’s cost structure (labor and overhead rates, machine rates, material costs, etc.).

Integration with Industry-Standard MCAD applications allows aPriori to evaluate geometric cost drivers directly from solid models. aPriori’s patent-protected, physics-based deterministic models calculate cost every time a designer makes a change to a CAD model. Using standard XML protocols, aPriori’s data structure can link directly to other enterprise systems, including ERP, PLM and corporate databases.

Embedded Cost Analytics & Reports detail part costs, assembly costs and product cost comparisons.

aPriori’s Universal Client Interface creates a consistent experience for all enterprise users, whether they are connected directly to the aPriori Enterprise Cost Management platform or are accessing aPriori from within an MCAD application.

For more information, click here to download the aPriori Enterprise Cost Management Platform datasheet. 

To learn more about aPriori and its Enterprise Cost Management Platform, view one of our online demonstrations or download one of our product cost management whitepapers.