aPriori Product Cost Management Solutions

Costing Without Complexity

aPriori is a software application that helps you answer cost questions faster than you could ever imagine:

• What happens if I change the Product Design? Did the cost go up or down?
• What happens to the cost of my design if we change the Material from aluminium to steel?
• How much savings can we get if we make 4,000 vs. 400?
• If I use an Injection Moulding Process instead of a Die Casting process, will this reduce my cost?
• What will happen to the cost if we move the manufacturing of our product from Cleveland to Romania?

Until now, most software applications that attempted to provide the cost of a manufactured part required large amounts of data input each time a new quote was required. Furthermore, these products could only be used by a handful of specialists that required extensive training to be productive with the application. aPriori is an entirely different cost management solution.

aPriori is a product designed to be used by people throughout your company, requires very little training to become proficient, and provides a cost estimate in real-time simply by opening a 3D CAD design, picking the type of manufacturing process from a drop down menu, entering the volume of production, and selecting the virtual factory that will be used to generate the cost. Groups that would find great value in using aPriori include:

• Design Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Manufacturing Process Planning
• Cost Estimation, Value Analysis/Value Engineering
• Purchasing, Procurement, Sourcing
• Program and Project Management

These people are required to answer cost questions like the ones above every single day. How they answer those questions will ultimately impact the profitability of your products - quite possibly in a negative way. Today, your employees are flying blind. Most companies do not have a product cost management platform available to them. As a consequence, they make their decisions based on the traditional criteria of Form, Fit or Function. What would happen if throughout their day, as they were making those tradeoff decisions, they could immediately know the cost of that decision?

The aPriori Product Cost Management software platform unlocks this hidden economic opportunity by providing product cost visibility and by answering cost questions early and continuously during the product development and production delivery process. By answering these cost questions in real-time, aPriori enables users to quickly understand the cost consequences of their design, manufacturing or sourcing decisions, and find the least expensive solution while meeting their various functional requirements. Users are still free to make their own decisions; aPriori is simply answering the very difficult question of what is the cost impact of each decision they make.

The Science of Product Cost Management - Presentation

Videos

	aPriori Overview Brief Video Presentation		How aPriori Works A Short Product Overview Presentation
	AGCO Using aPriori for Product Cost Management How and why AGCO implemented aPriori		Polaris Customer Story Learn how Polaris saved more than $3.3m in their first year of using aPriori

Documents

	aPriori Product Overview 379kb		What Will My Design Cost to Produce? 1.041015625mb
	Reducing Cost of Goods Sold with Product Cost Management - White Paper 1.0576171875mb		Creating a Profit-Centric Business Culture - White Paper 705kb
	Improving the Quality of Product Cost - White Paper 705kb		The Anatomy of Product Cost - White Paper 566kb
	Using Product Cost Analytics to Keep Engineering on Schedule and Budget 251kb		Sertec selects aPriori to speed RFQ response time & drive new business 76kb
	ThyssenKrupp aPriori Case Study ThyssenKrupp aPriori Case Study PDF Datasheet 424kb