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Quote smarter and increase win rate by 50%Overview
In today’s hyper-competitive manufacturing landscape, speed and accuracy can make the difference between winning and losing a deal. aPriori empowers sales and estimating teams with real-time, geometry-driven cost insights and collaborative tools that streamline quoting, improve accuracy, and protect profitability. By combining automation, digital factories, and transparent collaboration, aPriori helps manufacturers respond to RFQs faster, negotiate from strength, and win more business—while protecting margins.
Challenges Today & aPriori Solutions
Turn Quote Pressure Into Profitable WinsToday’s manufacturers face constant pressure to win more business at lower margins. aPriori helps you overcome these challenges with actionable cost insights, faster response times, and stronger collaboration—so you can win more and protect profitability.
Ensure Confidence in Quoted Margins
Accurate and Repeatable model-based quoting.aPriori’s automated cost estimation instantly transforms your 3D CAD models into detailed cost and process insights, empowering you to price smarter and bring products to market faster. Estimators and account teams can analyze cost drivers across production locations and capabilities to deliver accurate quotes—before competitors even begin their manual calculations.
Case Study: How Flex ensures confidence in quoting across all estimators.
Your Challenges
Cannot accurately or quickly respond to RFQs.
Limited resources to respond to all quotes.
Inconsistent quoting process across estimators.
Our Solutions
Automatically generates consistent cost estimates using digital manufacturing simulation.
Evaluates materials, processes, and production site cost variations in real time.
Reduces quote turnaround times dramatically helping you win on both speed and precision.
Frees up your estimating teams to focus on high-value, strategic opportunities.
Quote Review Collaboration
Align sales, engineering, and operations around profitable quoting.aPriori enables transparent collaboration across the quoting process, bringing together cost estimators, production, and sales teams in one shared digital environment. Teams can review quotes with full visibility into cost breakdowns, process assumptions, capacity requirements and profit margins—before final submission.
Learn how to align teams faster during the quoting process.
Your Challenges
Speed to Quote.
Miscommunication on quote proposal.
Inadequate capacity to meet delivery timeline.
Our Solutions
Provides a single digital thread for quote data, assumptions, and design feedback.
Flags margin risks early and highlights opportunities for cost improvement.
Streamlines review and approval cycles across commercial, engineering, and operations teams.
Ensures every quote is both competitive and profitable.
Capacity & Routing Analysis
See what’s possible — and make it profitable.aPriori helps you make smarter production decisions by analyzing your equipment, processes, and compares multiple factory strengths to identify the most efficient, cost-effective production route. With visibility into costs, cycle times, capacity, and machine utilization, you can confidently balance resources, meet delivery targets, and protect profitability.
Utilize digital factories to ensure you are quoting the best capabilities at the right capacity.
Your Challenges
Capacity constraints.
Miscalculated margins.
Our Solutions
Identifies cycle time drivers such as tool changes, setup, and material removal rates.
Break down the process into specific operations like set-up time, preparation, primary operations, and secondary operations.
Decide what to make or outsource while protecting margins.
Respond to RFQs faster without waiting on outsourced feedback.
Quote Faster with the Resources You Have
Respond to RFQs in a day instead of weeksaPriori’s automated cost estimation instantly transforms your 3D CAD models into detailed cost and process insights, empowering you to price smarter and bring products to market faster. Estimators and account teams can analyze cost drivers across production locations and capabilities to deliver accurate quotes—before competitors even begin their manual calculations.
Case Study: How Flex ensures confidence in quoting across all estimators.
Your Challenges
Cannot accurately or quickly respond to RFQs.
Limited resources to respond to all quotes.
Inconsistent quoting process across estimators.
Our Solutions
Automatically generates consistent cost estimates using digital manufacturing simulation.
Evaluates materials, processes, and production site cost variations in real time.
Reduces quote turnaround times dramatically helping you win on both speed and precision.
Frees up your estimating teams to focus on high-value, strategic opportunities.
Competitive/Market Analysis
Turn every quote into a competitive advantage.aPriori gives suppliers the insights they need to price smarter, quote faster, and win more business. With real-time cost benchmarking and powerful manufacturing data analysis, you can confidently position your pricing, transparently discuss with customers, and invest where it matters most.
Build trust, deliver value and compete with confidence.
Your Challenges
Losing bids due to non-competitive quotes.
Limited visibility into competitive pricing.
Our Solutions
Benchmark pricing against market and regional data.
Show cost-saving design insights that add customer value.
Offer fair, transparent pricing backed by real data.
Meet customer RFQ deadlines — or respond even faster.
Customer Success
Accelerate your product development journey.
See how aPriori’s digital manufacturing insights can help your teams design faster, smarter, and more sustainably.
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