Providing real-time predictive product cost assessments, the newest version of aPriori (Concord, MA) v6 Product Cost Management software is now available. By identifying quantifiable savings in ...

As a staff writer for Forbes Advisor, SMB, Kristy helps small business owners find the tools they need to keep their businesses running. She uses the experience of managing her own writing and editing ...

If you’ve managed a project before, you’ll know that keeping costs down is one of the biggest challenges during a standard project management life cycle. If your costs overrun, it can easily lead to ...

If you are working on a new-product-development initiative (NPI), you’re likely under pressure to hit specific cost, weight, market, and quality targets under tight time frames. Designing and making ...

There are significant benefits associated with managing product costs, yet many manufacturers struggle to implement effective PCM programs. And though many people and departments within an ...

Should cost is not perfect, but it does not matter, because its purpose is to be a leverage tool to improve negotiated cost, regardless of the should-cost number’s absolute accuracy. What is should ...