No time to waste on waiting
Updated November 30, 2017

No time to waste on waiting

Marc-André Patry | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with aPriori Product Cost Management

aPriori is mostly used by two differents engineering development teams to know in real time the cost of a part/assembly/product. We have a costing simulation department who uses aPriori to give this feedback cost to the development team.

So, it helps in many ways:

  • Be quicker and more confident when we have a design decision to make for in-house development project
  • Give a fast quote to our customer in a build to print product
  • Remove the number of RFQ to our suppliers
We are also starting to use aPriori to set our manufacturing rate
  • Give visibility to cost really quickly
  • Be able to benchmark other regions of the world or other process/equipment that can be used to do the same part
  • Easily visualize the Geometric Cost Drivers that are more important
  • GIve some hints on where to work to get the cost down
  • Be more easy to customize without that much IT knowledge
  • Give more hints on how to reduce cost
  • Be able to build customize report
  • It helps decrease our time to market. So more projects are done than before.
  • Being quick to give a quote to a customer is a business advantage. Customers know they can rely on Soucy to get a quick quote. First in gets the business.
  • No time spent on concepts that are too expensive anyway!
aPriori is covering a lot of different processes instead of being an expert in only one. It can read geometric [information] directly from the CAD file so there's no need for manual entry or the risk of a mistake that comes with that. It provides data in a lot of different regions around the world this keeping the data up to date.
[It's] very powerful and useful. It became a must-have/"cannot live without it anymore" [tool[ very quickly throughout all the company. We were at ease waiting 1 or 2 weeks to get a price/quote and now, when people wait more than a day, it's too long for them. So far, we only use 20% of the software and cannot wait to see what we will do with it in the future. It could more be more customizable.

Evaluating aPriori Product Cost Management and Competitors

  • Product Features
  • Product Reputation
It cover so much process and that was exactly what we need. Beeing a company that do multiple process, it was really imporant. Other softwares were good in only one process (ex: injection molding)
Lot of our customer was already using it
It will stay the same since we are really satisfy !

aPriori Product Cost Management Support

Nothing really bad to say. They are with me as soon as i need it !
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
No escalation required
Immediate help available
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
No - No need for now
Yes - No, but I can understand since it was somthing very specific to me
Oh Yeah, i had a crash after an installation of a newer version. A person form aPriori support give me 1 hour of is time to resolve it even if the problem was becasue of us