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    Reducing Current Product Cost: Challenges & Opportunities

    May 19, 2017
    Identify the Parts with the Greatest Potential for Significant Cost Savings. Sponsored by aPriori
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    Current products provide the biggest, short-term opportunity for reducing product costs by:
    • Identifying savings on outsourced parts
    • Finding savings in redesign
    • Optimizing costs on a higher volume of parts by consolidating similar parts
    • Consolidating suppliers
    • Improving engineering productivity in redesign projects

    This whitepaper explains how leveraging these opportunities requires changes on both the people and the technology sides of the business.

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