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Manufacturing products produces waste that ranges from overproduction, waiting time, and transportation costs to overprocessing, excess inventory, unnecessary motion and scrap. By eliminating these wastes, production time and cost of goods sold (COGS) are reduced Authentic Isco Jersey , and quality is improved.


The leading manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler, recently profiled aPriori Technologies? Lean Cost Management Platform in the recent issue of Quality Digest. Cutler details the benefits of cost management platforms in the feature.


According to Cutler, COGS reduction is one of the fundamental drivers of a lean manufacturing initiative. Used to measure the ongoing success of lean manufacturing, it fundamentally captures material, labor Authentic Alvaro Morata , overhead and tooling costs. However, COGS reduction should not be thought of as a phase in a lean manufacturing process initiative.


If lean manufacturing initiatives are reducing COGS, manufacturers must be able to accurately measure and manage costs in real time. Only real-time, predictive cost estimates can reliably be used to validate lean initiative decisions and guide corrective actions throughout all the processes of engineering, planning and production, sourcing Authentic Gareth Bale Jersey , quality control, program management and production delivery.


According to Frank Azzolino, President and CEO of aPriori, a producer of cost management software, ?It is essential to improve the economics of discrete manufacturing companies throughout the entire product development, production and delivery process by quantifiably and measurably reducing COGS.? Innovative cost management software platforms provide