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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.

Apprenticeships + Digital Initiatives: Solve Labor Shortages and Accelerate Future Talent

Digital manufacturing apprenticeships pair paid training and mentors with tech to close skills gaps and retain workers.

Overcoming Global Supply Chain Issues Through Cost Engineering

Supply chain turmoil demands cost engineers and simulation-driven manufacturing intelligence to rapidly evaluate suppliers, costs, risks, and sustainability.

aPriori Receives Frost & Sullivan Award for Digital Manufacturing Innovation

Frost & Sullivan awards aPriori 2022 innovation honor for cloud digital manufacturing platform accelerating design, costing, sourcing, sustainability.

Top-3 Manufacturing KPIs Every Cost Engineer Should Know

Three essential cost-engineering KPIs: cut ECOs, reduce CO2 footprint, and capture should-cost savings with digital collaboration.

Manufacturers: Are you Prepared for EU Taxonomy Sustainability Reporting Requirements?

Prepare for EU Taxonomy and CSRD: set carbon baselines, gather CO2e data, and balance cost, sustainability, manufacturability.

Unlock Critical Manufacturing Insights with Digital Factories

Digital factories connect cost, manufacturability, and CO2e insights to guide smarter designs, sourcing, and faster, sustainable production.

Top-5 Cost Reduction Engineer Challenges of Today

Cost-reduction engineers drive design-to-cost, but face five pitfalls—slow methods, silos, TCO gaps, infrequent analysis, culture resistance.

Why Siloed Digital Manufacturing Initiatives Fail and Slow ROI

Break down manufacturing silos with a unified simulation platform delivering real-time cost, DFM, and sustainability insights for better ROI.

How Designers Can Quantify Additive Manufacturing Benefits

Discover additive manufacturing’s ROI: how design engineers quantify 3D printing investments through cost, performance, supply-chain and growth benefits.

New aPriori Product Names Reflect our Expanding Capabilities

aPriori rebrands its suite as Manufacturing Insights Platform, renaming cloud apps to aP Design, Generate, Analytics for faster collaboration.

Kearney Insights: How to Build a Modern Costing Department

Webinar highlights building modern costing departments for disruption: transparency, scenario simulation, automation, and inflation-ready should-cost negotiation.