My name is John Haupt, and I’m responsible for the Harvesting Global Product Platform. Our farmers are under continuous pressure for their input costs. One of the significant input costs is the price of our machines. So, our responsibility as partners with our farmers… is to have cost-effective products that they can buy. And that’s where aPriori comes in. Helping make sure that the parts that we buy that goes into our machines are being delivered efficiently, that they’re designed efficiently right from the start, and that we can collaborate with our suppliers to get to the right cost levels, and we have a win-win with our suppliers.
aPriori provides us with the data that we need to identify key outliers of cost estimates and be able to compare those to our quotes that we get back from suppliers. And parts that are meeting our targets, they’re good. We can move on, right? We can put those to the side. The ones that are not are the ones that are the outliers that we want to put our precious time into going and addressing, sitting down with those suppliers and saying, “hey, we’re not quite meeting our cost target… how can we do this better together?” That’s really where the aPriori data comes in to help us enable those discussions and really reach a win-win collaboration. If you haven’t explored the efficiencies that you can gain by using aPriori, you need to go seek it out and go use it and go understand what it can do for you and remove barriers of execution in your daily work.
