The separately-licensed Bulk Costing and Analysis module enables you to generate costs for multiple parts at the same time, and then analyze groups of parts to identify outliers for cost reduction opportunities.

A sub-set of features is also available in the main aPriori user interface without a separate license, for costing components with multiple scenarios, and for assemblies with multiple subcomponents and scenarios.

Bulk costing allows you to specify different scenarios so that you can compare the costs, for example, of producing parts in different areas of the world, or at different volumes. After an initial costing, subsequent re-costings do not require that GCDs be re-imported from CAD parts.

You can access Bulk Costing in a variety of ways:

The module allows you to quickly generate preliminary costs for groups of parts in bulk by setting their initial costing parameters using a tabular interface and then batch costing them.

Note that when you perform a bulk costing, aPriori will check all of the sub-components to see if any are open in the main UI with unsaved changes. If so, aPriori will prompt whether you want to save and close that component, leave it unsaved, or cancel the deep cost operation. It is important to realize that regardless of what you choose, the results of the deep cost will be determined by the inputs on the Bulk Costing and Analysis table, or any user inputs file, not by the changes to the sub-component in the UI.