aPriori Company Information and Datasheets

Thank you for your interest in aPriori and its product cost management solutions.

The aPriori Product Cost Management platform is the first software solution to provide discrete manufacturers and product companies with real-time answers to cost questions 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.

Use the links below to download select aPriori materials.
10/15/2009 - aPriori Product Cost Management Overview (229.83 KB)
This data sheet provides an overview of how aPriori's product cost management can help companies reduce the cost required to manufacture their products by whole cost of goods percentage points every year.
10/15/2009 - aPriori Manufacturing Process Support (149.45 KB)
aPriori supports costing for a wide range of discrete manufacturing processes. This datasheet provides an overview of the processes currently supported.
10/15/2009 - aPriori Virtual Production Environment Overview (529.06 KB)
aPriori's Product Cost Management solution ships out of the box with 6 Virtual Production Environments (or Virtual Factories) that allow you to start understanding the cost to manufacture your products immediately. This is the 1st in a two part document set. Refer to the companion data sheet "aPriori Customer Specific VPEs" for information on how aPriori can customize Baseline VPEs to meet your specific manufacturing requirements.
10/15/2009 - aPriori VPE Creator Toolkit (697.25 KB)
aPriori provides the capability for you to quickly make copies of Baseline or Customer-Specific VPEs and then adjust specific parameters in the copied VPE to model various "what-if" scenarios. For example, you could have two VPEs, one with current year material rates and one with projected future material rates if a product will release to manufacturing next year.
10/15/2009 - aPriori Customer-Specific VPEs (538.35 KB)
aPriori's Baseline VPEs can be configured to meet virtually any type of manufacturing environment you may require. Material types and rates can be configured to represent your company's specific needs. Machine types and associated statistics can be configured. Even the cost model logic provided with aPriori's Baseline VPEs can be configured to represent your own unique methodology for assigning monetary value to specific manufacturing operations. This is the 2nd in a two part document set. We recommend you read "aPriori Virtual Production Environment Overview" before reading this document.
5/5/2011 - aPriori Regional VPEs - Details and Assumptions (778.01 KB)
This whitepaper provides detailed information on the data sources and cost model assumptions that are included as part of aPriori regional baseline VPEs.
5/5/2011 - aPriori Cost Model Work Bench (139.24 KB)
aPriori's Cost Model Work Bench provides customers with the capability to configure the cost model logic included within baseline VPEs to match that of an internal manufacturing environment, a specific supplier or a group of regional suppliers. The CMWB also provides customers with the capability to create their own cost models to represent manufacturing processes not available in aPriori baseline VPEs. This capability was previously only availble via aPriori Professional Services.
1/27/2011 - aPriori Bulk Cost & Analysis Module (1.07 MB)
The aPriori Bulk Costing and Analysis Module provides a set of powerful yet easy-to-use tools for costing and analyzing large groups of components. To learn more, download this datasheet.
1/22/2008 - How to Test if aPriori is Right For You (385.62 KB)
The aPriori Strategic Value Assessment (aSVA) is a short-term, proof-of-concept project to confirm the value of the aPriori Product Cost Management solution prior to a larger-scale deployment. Usually completed over four days, an aSVA applies aPriori’s technology to an organization’s own people, parts and facilities to find real savings in product costs.
10/15/2009 - aPriori Spend Analytics Service (517.28 KB)
aPriori's Spend Analytics service helps companies identify cost outliers from groups of hundreds or even thousands of parts. The outliers represent those parts that have the highest likelihood of producing a significant cost reduction for your company.
12/6/2011 - aPriori 2011r2 System Requirements Datasheet (41.92 KB)
This datasheet contains technical details related to server and client requirements, supported CAD formats, and a variety of other system level information for the latest release of aPriori product cost management software.