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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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How to Uncover Hidden Product Manufacturing Cost Drivers

Reveal five hidden manufacturing cost drivers—and how aPriori’s design-to-cost intelligence cut waste, speed launches, and boost profitability.

6 Areas Design Engineers Can Minimize Manufacturing Risk

Design engineers reduce manufacturing risk with aPriori intelligence in CAD, cut iterations, costs, supply-chain issues, and emissions.

Nearshoring: A Solution to Supply Chain Risk Management?

Considering nearshoring? Learn benefits, risks, and how aPriori’s real-time supplier intelligence strengthen cost, carbon, and resilience decisions.

3 Ways Manufacturing Insights Improve Supply Chain Efficiency

Procurement’s new mandate: use aPriori supply-chain insights to forecast disruptions, diversify suppliers, cut costs, and protect margins.

Supplier Data Consistency Improves Sourcing Decisions and Manufacturing Costs

Poor supplier data inflates costs. Learn how aPriori standardizes insights, sharpens should-cost models, and empowers fact-based negotiations.

Explore aPriori’s New Manufacturing Collaboration Software

aP Workspace unites siloed teams and data in one secure hub, speeding decisions, tasks, and sustainable collaboration.

4 New Can’t-Miss Tips for Successful Supplier Negotiations

Fact-based, emotion-free supplier negotiations: use should-cost breakdowns and impartial language to collaborate, resolve objections, and cut costs.

aPriori’s Best Sourcing & Procurement Blog Posts of 2022

Catch up on 2022’s top sourcing and procurement posts—Ukraine disruptions, chip shortages, strategic sourcing, collaboration, and digitalization priorities.

Why Sourcing Should Steal the Car Dealer Digitalization Playbook

Learn from digital car dealers: digitize procurement, use should-cost models, enable self-quoting, and boost transparency with supplier collaboration.