Asva By Apriori Technologies Proves Financial Value In 4 Weeks
By John Busa
According to Frank Azzolino, president of aPriori Technologies, "The objective of the aPriori Strategic Value Assessment (aSVA) is to confirm the financial and strategic value that aPriori can brings to customers in a very short timeframe, approximately four weeks. "
Specifically, the aSVA validates:
aPriori works in our customers business environment:Verifying that the relevant production facilities and manufacturing processes can be modeledConfirming that predictive and accurate cost assessments can be created for our customers' productsCertifying that customers can use aPriori in their everyday tasks to accomplish product cost reductions quickly and easily
aPriori helps customers find ways to lower product costs by demonstrating:It can provide real-time visibility to cost information at all stages in the product development and delivery process.It provides fast and accurate product cost estimates that can be used as daily design, manufacturing, and sourcing decisions are being made.
Customers have the opportunity to improve their approach to product cost management by incorporating real-time product cost information into all product development and delivery activities.
During the aSVA, aPriori provides the aPriori Cost Management software platform on-site to facilitate making real-time product cost assessments; design changes in the MCAD system, as well as understanding the product cost implications of various sourcing decisions, manufacturing process decisions, and material choices. The activity allows customer to experience how aPriori drives product cost reductions. Sources of cost reduction may come from:
Better cost information during the product design process suggesting different design alternatives Different materials decisions based on real-time cost informationPlanning/routing/manufacturing decisions based on knowing the cost consequences of different alternativesShould-cost analyses available earlier in the product development cycleMore
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