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Articles by April Guenet
April Guenet is an aPriori Product Marketing Manager for global sourcing and supply chain solutions. April applies customer and manufacturing insights to provide differentiated sourcing solutions that foster collaboration, accelerate procurement, and reduce costs.
April Guenet

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Supplier Negotiations Without Should Cost Intelligence Is Just Guessing

If you don’t know what something should cost, you’re not negotiating a price — you’re approving one.

How Design-To-Source Intelligence Turns Quoteless Sourcing Into An Engineering Discipline

Design-to-source intelligence closes the gap between engineering and procurement, compressing time-to-market and reducing costly rework cycles before launch.

Part 2: Is Your AI Strategic Sourcing Strategy Just a More Expensive Spreadsheet?

A buyer three months into a category can walk into a negotiation as prepared as a ten-year veteran.

Part I: Is Your AI Strategic Sourcing Just a More Expensive Spreadsheet?

Generic AI just moves procurement’s old maintenance burden from spreadsheets into prompts, without reliably delivering real cost savings

aPriori Earns Windchill+ Cloud PLM Software Certification

aPriori achieves Windchill+ certification, embedding real-time cost, manufacturability, and sustainability intelligence directly into PTC’s cloud-based PLM platform.

Suppliers Know What Your Parts Cost to Make. aiSource Does Too. Introducing aPriori’s New AI Sourcing Solution

77% of procurement teams miss savings targets—because suppliers always knew what parts cost to make. Now buyers do too.

Never Send Another RFQ Again. Quoteless Sourcing Reduces Timelines from 10 Weeks to One Week

Replace traditional RFQs with quoteless sourcing that predicts manufacturability, cost, and lead time upfront—cutting sourcing cycles drastically.

From Disruption Management to Intelligent Supply Chain Efficiency with aPriori

ASCM’s 2026 supply chain trends demand agility; aPriori intelligence delivers insights that support these trends.

How Zero RFQ Supercharges Strategic Sourcing and Speeds Time to Market

Ditch slow RFQs: Zero RFQ uses digital factory models for instant, supplier-aligned quotes, cutting lead times and costs.

Your Digital Transformation Initiative’s Secret Weapon: People, Not Just Tech

Digital transformation fails without training: sustained onboarding, expert services, and customer success support boost adoption, retention, and ROI.

From Collaboration to Confidence: How Engineering Teams Design Smarter and Faster with Insight

Break the collaboration ceiling: embed real-time manufacturability, cost, and sustainability insight during design so engineers launch faster, with less rework.

Beyond Turbulence: Key Lessons from ASCM CHAINge NA 2025 To Improve Supply Chain Performance

CHAINge NA 2025 reveals tariffs are permanent; predictive planning, trained AI adoption, and digital twins unify resilience and sustainability.