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:
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
- 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.
Evaluating aPriori Product Cost Management and Competitors
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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
Lot of our customer was already using it
It will stay the same since we are really satisfy !
aPriori Product Cost Management Support
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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