The aPriori Product Cost Management Platform is the first software solution to provide discrete manufacturers and product companies with real-time, predictive and precise product cost assessments throughout the entire development and production process. aPriori's revolutionary cost management capabilities empower organizations to identify quantifiable savings in material, tooling, labor and overhead while evaluating alternative designs, processes and sources. By generating cost assessments early in the product development process, aPriori customers drive significant costs out of their products prior to production, reducing cost of goods sold (COGS) by whole percentage points and improving the overall financial results of the company.
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Key Features
- Designed for use by people with different levels of cost knowledge
- Configurable by customer's cost experts
- Real-Time - generate precise cost assessment from a 3D CAD model in seconds
- Detailed "should cost" breakdowns for conducting fact-based negotiations with suppliers
- Powerful “what-if” tradeoff analysis (change design, volumes, materials, locations, manufacturing - cost updates instantly)
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Target Business Size
- Mid-Size (100-999 employees)
- Large (1000+ employees)
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Platform
- Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows XP/Vista
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Database
- Oracle
- MySQL
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CORE CAPABILITIES
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable & Credit Management
- Budgeting
- Cash Management
- Cost Accounting & Management
- Financial Reporting & Analytics
- Fixed Assets
- General Ledger
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Industries
- Electronics and Semiconductors
- Metals - Fabrication and Assembly
- Industrial Manufacturing
- Automotive OEM
- Industrial/Heavy Equipment and Machinery
- Aerospace and Defense
- Miscellaneous Manufacturing
- Medical Devices
- Automotive Supplier
- Plastics and Rubber Products
- Electrical Equipment
- Instruments and Controls
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Countries
- Norway
- USA
- United Kingdom
- Spain
- Brazil
- Italy
- Portugal
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- France
- Mexico
- Denmark
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Finland
- Sweden
- Germany
About aPriori
The aPriori Enterprise Cost Management software platform improves the financial results of discrete manufacturing and product companies by enabling them to actively control Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) with real-time, predictive and precise product cost assessments. aPriori's proven and patent-protected software platform allows companies to assess, control and reduce the cost of their products in real time, at any time during design, sourcing and manufacture. This enables companies to understand the cost impact of product design decisions earlier than ever before, reduce their Cost of Goods Sold, and improve operating margins. The aPriori platform is rapidly deployable across the extended enterprise, up and running in a matter of weeks generating cost assessments reflecting a customer's factories and suppliers' capabilities.
