aPriori Product Cost Management vs BlueCherry

• Sheet Metal-Process Group, Transfer Die is at the Best, which gives detailed operation setup for the Parts as well as shows the number of parts in the Sheet i.e nested Loop thereby reducing the Scrap as well (Scrap Management)
• Forging-Steel: Very good for for medium and complex medium Hot Forging type parts. Machine overhead data is very detailed where facts are used for the negotiation i.e Electricity Rate, Power, Labour Rate, Maintenance rate, etc.
• Surface Treatment / Other Secondary Process such as powder coating, wet coat, electro plating: These all work well. We can also use masking options the treatment, In the event of of any leak tests or X-Ray inspections, we can add the process which will then account the pre/post operation time for the treatments
• 2-Model Machining: Machines and routing combinations are huge and can be used to determine the most economic way to produce these parts. We can also override to find the supplier methodology and cost. It gives very detailed information on the feed rate, speed rate, and power capacity.
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerating (GD&T) can be added on the GCD's which will help detect the super finishing process, which is another advantage. In the current 2016 R2 SP, aPriori can detect it from the CAD Models
• Design to Cost feature, provides the design engineers as well as cost engineers to understand the which feature take most cycle time and whether changing that feature reduces the complexity in machining thereby cycle time can be reduced

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• You are able to create your own custom reports with just the information you need included.
• You can access the system from an off-site location.
• You are able to share reports and documents directly from the system to the email recipient.

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• Customization of the cost logic is tricky.
• Full products costing & process involved in the proprietary parts are less or not available for costing
• Sheet metal logics for costing may be improved.
• Focus on Electronics Cost models
• Electronics - Component Costings

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• When placing orders on hold due to over the credit limit, it takes into consideration all future orders even if they are years in the future.
• You aren't able to view inventory status as easy when entering an order.
• You do not get a pop-up notification when entering an order that the account is past due, over the limit, etc.
• It leaves $0 invoices open on the account until they are manually applied.

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• Increased efficiency in delivering our projects.
• Leverage to look into product cost at design level.
• More saving realizations we can see and use for negotiation.

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• It has made it easier to access and share documents and information in the system.
• It makes it easier to view reports because you can customize them to only include the information you need.

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