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Global procurement markets and increasing cost pressures require professional cost management in the field of mold, tool, and die. Shorter lifecycles paired with higher product variability mean that the share of tool costs in relation to the total costs of a product line is steadily increasing. Therefore the tool costs become a critical focus of cost management in tool purchasing.
Tool buyers need to constantly optimize tool spending and ensure the improved offer performance of suppliers. Due to the increasing complexity of tools and smaller production runs, this balancing act is a challenge even for experienced tool specialists, and succeeds only with the help of a powerful tool purchase prices analysis system that delivers faster, more accurate and comprehensible results based on parametric models.
Global procurement markets and increasing cost pressures require professional cost management in the field of mold, tool, and die. Shorter lifecycles paired with higher product variability mean that the share of tool costs in relation to the total costs of a product line is steadily increasing. Therefore the tool costs become a critical focus of cost management in tool purchasing.
Tool buyers need to constantly optimize tool spending and ensure the improved offer performance of suppliers. Due to the increasing complexity of tools and smaller production runs, this balancing act is a challenge even for experienced tool specialists, and succeeds only with the help of a powerful tool purchase prices analysis system that delivers faster, more accurate and comprehensible results based on parametric models.
For the tasks within the tool purchase price analysis, cost engineers can use Teamcenter tool costing to do shadow calculations as a plausibility check on the calculations of their suppliers. They can use Teamcenter tool costing information such as technology data, part descriptions or 3D data to create cost calculations using the parametric methodology. In general, buyers can expect much more than just a tool price. The result is that suppliers must submit their quotes as cost breakdowns. With tool purchase price analysis, this cost breakdown template can be imported easily by the buyer and immediately compared with his own shadow calculation. Differences in the calculations are immediately transparent and support fact-based discussion between purchasing and supplier.
With the capability tool purchase price analysis in Teamcenter tool costing, tool buyers have transparency on cost details and the relevant cost drivers, and can assess quotations in detail based on cost and technology aspects.
The quality and design of a tool affects not only the tool costs, but also the cost per piece of manufactured parts. The Teamcenter solution offers a unique opportunity to determine the interactions between component and tool costs at different volumes, and makes tool designs reliable and transparent. You can use the combination of Tool Costing and the Teamcenter software for Product Costing for a fully integrated calculation solution. In addition, the tool costs within the integrated solution are considered holistically through the product bill of materials and the product/project program.