Product Cost Management

During the new product development stage, material cost is vital for manufacturing enterprises. Establishing an advanced, efficient and profit-oriented cost management system and platform is a shared objective for manufacturing companies.

Business Problems

01
Low profit margins and lack of cost competitiveness
Intense competition often results in low profit margins for products and a lack of cost advantages, making it challenging to compete on pricing with leading companies.
02
Inadequate cost planning management and significant product cost overruns
Extended new product development cycles, complex product structures and configurations, and frequent design changes make cost control very difficult. As a result, target cost overruns are common as products approach the production stage.
03
High barriers and poor collaboration between cost management and other business departments
Many enterprises lack a systemized procurement and cost control process, especially in product planning and design stages. High barriers exist between the cost management department and other business departments, resulting in poor collaboration.
04
Manual cost management operations, low efficiency, and lack of transparency
In many cases, early BOM outputs are untimely, data quality is inadequate, and activities such as target cost setting, sourcing, and price changes are primarily manual. This manual approach leads to inefficiencies, decentralized offline data management, inconsistent rules, and a lack of transparency in cost control. Traditional cost accounting systems struggle to meet cost management requirements for the product creation process.

Solution Overview

Thanks to years of hands-on experience within large-scale manufacturing industries, Gant Software offers comprehensive product cost solutions across the entire lifecycle for manufacturing enterprises:
● Center on the product development process, with target cost management as the guiding principle, and cost BOM as the core data carrier.
● Integrate product cost planning, cost estimation, cost control and cost improvement into a cohesive management process.
● Refine cost estimates based on a full-factor cost model to effectively improve the cost management capabilities for new products within the enterprises.

Solution Values

实现成本管理全过程的透明化与可视化
覆盖产品早期成本策划、目标成本估算与制定、定点成本、设计变更成本的控制与跟踪、产品成本优化全过程管理,实现成本管理全过程的透明化与可视化
基于成本BOM的精准成本管控
通过独立的成本BOM管理机制以及先进的数据同步机制,保证BOM数据的及时有效;面向全配置管理体系,以全配置化的成本BOM支持面向配置的产品成本分析、针对变更成本的控制与溯源以及跨产品的成本对标
支持面向成本的设计过程
基于业界先进的成本模型、精细化的成本要素,实现对产品零部件、工装模具、包装物流等成本的精准估算与模拟分析, 为面向成本的设计开发过程以及成本改善提供支持,促进目标成本的制定与落地执行
积累成本数据资产
通过规范的成本数据模型以及企业级的成本数据库,帮助企业积累数据资产,支持深层次、智能化的数据分析、挖掘与应用
Covering the entire process of product planning, target cost estimation and formulation, control and tracking of target costs and design change costs, and optimization of product costs to achieve transparency and visualization across the entire cost management process.
Achieve transparency and visualization across the entire cost management process
Ensuring timely and efficient management of BOM data through an independent cost BOM management mechanism and advanced data synchronization with a full configuration management system. Configurative cost BOMs support configuration-oriented product cost analysis, control, traceability of change costs, and cross-product cost benchmarking.
Accurate cost control based on cost BOM
Leveraging industry-leading cost models, refined cost elements, we achieve precise cost estimation and simulation analysis for product parts, tooling and molds, packaging, logistics, etc., and provide support for cost-oriented design & development processes and cost improvement to facilitate the formulation and execution of target costs.
Support cost-oriented design processes
Help enterprises accumulate data assets using standardized cost data models and enterprise-level cost databases, and enable deep, intelligent data analysis, mining, and application.
Accumulate cost data assets

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