Bottoms-Up: An extensive data library contain the exact machine and labour times needed to produce cost estimates that are consistent with actual manufacturing times. This allows you to account for the time and cost of each operation. A complete, detailed cost breakdown analysis is developed, allowing you to identify what your products “should cost”.
IBM Focuses on Cutting Procurement Costs.
IBM, which seems always to be on the leading edge — both in its products and in its business processes, is now well into its seventh year of using Costimator OEM, a powerful piece of software that helps IBM put a razor edge on its procurement processes. Implemented as part of IBM's massive, ongoing transformation of its supply chain, Costimator has generated savings at the company's manufacturing sites worldwide, including plants in North America, Scotland, Germany, and numerous other countries.IBM's supply chain begins with product design and includes processes for lead management, the creation of customer proposals, component sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, fulfillment, customer service, billing, accounts receivable, and aftermarket services. IBM determined that it needed to implement uniform, predictable costing strategies as a means of comparing manufacturing costs on a global basis. Costimator accomplishes this by allowing all of the firm's hardware divisions to define, break down, and quantify the true cost of every part of every product.
Click here to see John Kagan discussing the IBM implementation of Costimator at the Global Procurement Conference.
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