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3 Opportunities to Enhance Manufacturing Agility and Reduce Risk

Tackle supply chain, inflation, and geopolitical risk with manufacturing insights—run what-if scenarios, cut costs, and boost agility.

Where Manufacturers Should (and Shouldn’t) Make Cost Reductions

Learn where manufacturers should cut costs—design, supply chain, automation, waste—while protecting quality and innovation.

Actionable Digital Transformation Strategies for Manufacturing

Digital twins and what-if automation align design, sourcing, and suppliers—speeding smarter, cheaper, sustainable manufacturing through end-to-end transformation.

How GE Appliances Optimized Its Supply Chain

How GE Appliances used manufacturing insights to map suppliers, shift to total cost, and build resilient, collaborative supply chains.

Carrier Streamlines Supplier Management With Digitalization

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

aPriori 2023 R1: What’s New Webinar Highlights Process Innovation Enhancements

Webinar previews aPriori 2023 R1 upgrades: Sustainability Insights, cloud aP Workspace collaboration, modeling and assembly enhancements for profitable, low-carbon manufacturing.

How Signify Captures Savings With Automated Should Costing

Signify uses aPriori automation for rapid should-cost analysis, enabling smarter supplier negotiations, savings, and sustainable procurement.

How the Manufacturing Digital Twin Helped Woodward Address Labor Shortages

Woodward uses aPriori digital twins to self-quote, slash supplier lead times 90%, and overcome manufacturing labor shortages.

How to Improve DFM via Enterprise Digital Twins

Connect product, process, and factory digital twins to automate DFM, cut costs and CO2e, and negotiate better.

How Grundfos Advances Sustainable Sourcing with Digital Twins

Grundfos uses aPriori digital twins to balance cost and carbon, powering sustainable sourcing decisions across its supply chain.

EU Manufacturer Captures Savings Despite Energy Price Increases

EU manufacturers counter energy-driven cost inflation using aPriori should-cost models to challenge surcharges and secure double-digit savings.

How to Build the Ultimate 2023 Should Costing Playbook

Build a should-costing playbook for 2023: unite cost engineers, digital models, and cross-team collaboration to negotiate better.