Overall Satisfaction with aPriori Product Cost Management
- Product Cost Management :
aPriori is essential in our department for activities such as:
- Potential for current parts- Value- Base Negotiation [ Direct Savings from Current Suppliers]
- Providing target cost for new products [ New Product Development]
- Speed, innovation, capacity
- Generating the Technical Ideas during the Supplier workshop , Idea Generation Workshops
- To meet the Negotiation Target for the suppliers- [ Fact- Based Negotiation]
- Supplier Rationalization (Supplier Bench-marking)
- Cost Break-up for the Parts (Quote Missing)
- Most Economic ways of Producing the Parts in machining could be analysed
- Negotiation with suppliers
- Keeping the target cost for the new products i.e. cost avoidance
- RFQ benchmarking
- Producing results quickly
- Reduced the RFQ response time drastically
- 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
- Investment Casting Model: We have a basic model where we have captured all the processes involved, but when logic is being missed in the same in process, we have to fine-tune it to make it as effective as other process groups.
- Powder Metal technology: Similarly, we need more process setup options in order to provide more logic for manufacturing. It does have the basic manufacturing setup
- Mass Volume Machining: Transfer machines, swiss lathes need to be incorporated for Mass and high-speed machining
- Forging: Hollow Forging as well as forging of Non-Ferrous metal need to addressed as the Forging cost is too high
- No Negative Impacts
- At our Organization, ROI is calculated in terms of time, speed, and value
- Time: We can reduce the project implementation by a few days
- Speed: Delivering the cost in a few hours compared to weeks in the past
- Capacity: Tool helps to make things run parallel i.e bulk costing increases capacity
- Value: Negotiations have resulted in savings with respect to list price
I have not used other similar , but this feel that aPriori is highly effective for agility and improving the speed, along with innovative reporting.
- aPriori shares reports in innovative way. It uses cost insight where we can analyze the report and share stake-holders much more quickly
- It also improves the project implementation by achieving targets and making sure the cost of the product is not above target, all the way up to launch
- Provides more Fact to have strong arugmentation with suppliers
- Detail Cost Break-up and various report such as Manufacturing Tool Summary, Assembly cost report can be generated
- Add-on features help to more strong usage of tool in daily work culture to main the Cost culture in my Organisation
- DTC-Design to Cost feature is new add on in 2017 version where we can see the features which take most cylce time and this make the Desgin Engineer to alter and see the Cycle time reduction thereby Cost
- User-Friendnly
- Cost Insight Reporting-Awaited Interative Reporting to our need
Using aPriori Product Cost Management
21 - We all Represent the Product Cost Management Team, and support to other various functions such as;
- Procurement- Should Cost Analysis
- Design Engineers- Design to Cost
- NPD- Target Costing for New Product
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- Able to write the Logic with aSQL
- Possess the general Manufacturing knowledge
- Understand the Different Cost Components for the various Process
- Need to have general Machining Knowledge
- Able to know the feed/speed to be given for the particular operation for Better Refinement of Cost
- Should able to use the Process Set-up Options for the Process Group
- Use of Secondary Process need to understand from the Drawing Requirement
- Achieved Annual Savings of over 1.5m USD with use of Should Cost Analysis
- Target Costing Provided to decide the New Project Development as the Concept Target Cost was far high than expected estimated cost, Which saved the Huge resources and Time for the Organization
- Reporting- Cost Insight helps to know the potential % with current Prices
- Integrating the ERP System with aPriori
- PLM with aPRiori to directly access the models and run the costing
- ONE POINT CONTACT to evaluate the Current Product and to Decide the COST for New Product
- Helps various functions to understand the COST involved in the function via aPriori PCM
- Also integerating the CFD Analysis Software i.e.modeFRONTIER with apriori is future development targeted
Evaluating aPriori Product Cost Management and Competitors
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- Analyst Reports
- One Platform to cost the maximum spend of Organization
- Maturity in Most of the Process Group especially in Sheet Metal, Machining, Casting, Plastic, Forging,etc...
- Process Set-up Options which able to alter the required field for the various operations and get the actual set-up in which supplier manufactures the part i.e. Feed/Speed of Machines
- Overall "COST" before it "MATTERS"- Tag line of aPriori
- Look for One Platform for all Process Group
- Look for the Costing of Powder Metal, Fabrication as separate Process Group
- Ease editing of Process Set-up Options in case of separate Tab
- Able to easy Link to ERP systems and PLM
- Web-Based Solutions
- User-Friendly with Minimum input the Costing is done for the Process Group
- Suggestions -How the Part would cost in various Locations?
aPriori Product Cost Management Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal - Change Management in the aPriori product cost Management was minimal or negligible as one need to just understand the various process group and the to know how to choose material in the aPriori and add in the volume and location then click on "Cost" button, the user see the cost in few seconds.
So no major bottleneck were experienced during the Change Management .
So no major bottleneck were experienced during the Change Management .
- Need to have compliance with internal IT security, which was time consuming for the network security check
aPriori Product Cost Management Support
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
Yes -
- We have customized few of our Data base where we need to pull in the Logistics & Packaging Cost in our Cost Model
- We had missed the Logic in between and when we reported to Support Service
- Within 24 hrs we received , inputs for the resolution i.e. Cost Model Tool set we need to upload to our request where solution provider will work on to the tool set and confirm the bug and corrected for the Change and now it works fine
- When we have enhanced process of "Melting" we had a support on-site where they had come to our Organization and worked with Our cost modeller and made this Process enhanced
- Similar such Process which we have enhanced where we had direct support from aPriori Support Team-"Transfer Press"
- Support Team also helped for regional data update other than available regions provided by aPriori
Using aPriori Product Cost Management
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Like to use Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | Unnecessarily complex |
- Process Setup Options for customizing the routing operations
- Routing Operations to choose the Machining method according to the Supplier routing
- Override function is most useful one to override the actual specification
- More Process setup options need to be used in Secondary process for better routing
Yes - aPriori Product Cost Management provide Enterprise Platform which is web based solution wherein one an look at the cost on the move, which is really most advancement in the solutions, it is pretty new and under fast development. This platform help user to share the cost components of various drivers any where as well as to feel the cost instantly