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aPriori is not just software

it’s a Strategic Business Initiative

The benefits of digital manufacturing simulation are significant, yet many manufacturers struggle to implement these initiatives effectively:

Engineering Managers

Your Engineering Managers are given target product cost guidelines, but no tools to understand the true cost impact of their product design decisions. As a result, new product designs are released to manufacturing over original target costs and with potential manufacturability issues that have yet to be discovered.

Value Engineers

Your Value Engineers are tasked with reducing the cost of products after they are in production. Yet, they have no tools to understand how their ideas truly impact product cost. To validate their ideas, they send their best engineering concepts to their manufacturing team or out to a supplier for a quotation — adding days or weeks to their own process.

Sourcing Professionals

Your Sourcing Professionals are tasked with managing outsourced product costs. However, they have very little insight into what their product should cost before they send new designs out to bid. They are faced with asking for arbitrary discounts which do not take into consideration the should cost of the part and the supplier margin.

Cost Engineering

When your Cost Engineering team is asked to develop a quote for new customer business, it is often a painstaking process to build up the quote that requires significant manual inputs and manufacturing expertise. This results in delays responding to the customer that can often mean losing the business.

Best-in-class manufacturers are addressing these challenges and distancing themselves from their competition with a systematic approach to cost management that extends across their enterprise to every function and department that impacts product cost. These companies have made product cost management a normal course of responsibility and decision making inside their organizations. They deploy a core set of cost management activities, processes, and tools into their every day business to identify key cost control points and they equip employees to remove cost at every opportunity.

More Than a Decade of Experience

aPriori’s Professional Services team has served as a strategic business advisor to our customers for 10+ years, helping them to evolve their business practices towards a more cost conscious culture that is empowered to product costs, accelerate time to market, and increase product innovation. aPriori Professional Services extends the value of the aPriori software platform for customers by:

Ensuring maximum ROI from their aPriori investment
Accelerating their time to value
Generating increasing and ongoing value from their digital manufacturing simulation initiative
Promoting its ongoing value and continuous improvement
Improving user adoption and increasing accuracy of costing
Integrating aPriori with complementary systems such as PLM and ERP

To learn more about how aPriori can help you define an automated manufacturing strategy, contact us at ProductCost@apriori.com to arrange for a private appointment with one of our consultants.

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