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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

Automated Should Cost: Achieve Product Development Speed & Cost Targets

Automated 3D-CAD should-cost analysis speeds decisions, improves cost targets, and helps teams launch products faster without margin trade-offs.

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.

The Missing Pulse: Reviving Your PLM from Flatline to Lifeline

Revive flatlining PLM with real-time manufacturability, cost, and sustainability insights—cut rework, speed launches, and protect margins.

Using Digital Twins & Supply Chain Automation to Drive Decision Intelligence

Digital twins and automation help procurement teams cut RFQ delays, manage risk, collaborate faster, and speed time to market.

6 Metrics That Will Help Improve Your Engineering Productivity

Six engineering metrics to boost manufacturing productivity: compare sustaining costs to revenue, and R&D spend to customer value.

Cash Flow Problems? Your Cost Professional Is Key To Creating A Cost-Conscious Culture

Expand manufacturing cash flow by embedding cost driven KPIs within design, sourcing, quoting, and automation using digital data-driven tools.

Automate Bottom-Up Costing with 3D CAD to Boost Engineering Efficiency and Speed

Combine top-down targets with CAD-driven bottom-up costing to estimate faster, cut redesigns, and hit launch costs.

How to Overcome Technical Debt and Drive Process Optimization

Uncover technical debt’s hidden costs and learn four digital transformation strategies to eliminate silos, boost productivity, and innovate faster.

Capital Expenditures: Where Your Industry Stacks Up & How to Offset with Product Cost Reductions

See which industries spend most on capital equipment—and how digital product costing offsets CapEx by cutting operating costs.

aPriori Announces its Fifth Manufacturing Insights Patent

New aPriori patent automates bulk and matrix costing, delivering rapid DFM/DTC insights to cut costs across many parts.

Carrier Streamlines Supplier Management With Digitalization

Carrier digitized should-costing with aPriori, uncovering $21M savings, streamlining suppliers, and targeting zero-RFQ plus 2030 goals.