Product Cost Tracking and Analysis
Rocco Cappiello, Synopsis Consulting
The innovating skill and the capability to meet quickly Customer
needs in different markets
are more and more key factors because of the
global dimensions and of the quickness required
nowadays in the competitive context. One of
the most tricky aspect is the management
of product cost, all the lifecycle long, from
the conceptual design to its maintenance
phase.
The proposed approach supports all the phases of the Product
Development, providing advanced
and distinctive functionalities for the management
of: target setting, cost tracking,
cost reduction.
One of the main characteristic functionality is the capability
to get available to the cross-product
development platform team, product configurations
with costs and weights; these will be
presented not by the classic accounting view
(that “builds” the costs of each manufacturing
module through the assembling line), but accordingly
to a view coherent with the process of
management of the requirements, the specifications
and the engineering activity, i.e. the
product functional view, similar to the logic
workflow for the product value proposition and
estimation.
Analytics and dashboarding have the objective to give the
managers the possibility to supervise
the process of the product cost management
by suitable dashboards on costs, quality,
tooling investments, and synoptic outlook about
the business performances and about the
progress of the new product initiative or of
the actions for modifications.
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