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Product Cost Management

Tech-Clarity TV – Optimizing Product Cost with PCM

In this episode of Tech-Clarity TV, Jim Brown shares Tech-Clarity’s views on how manufacturers can analyze and optimize costs for manufactured goods during the design phase. It also shares the value of using a knowledge-based cost to negotiate and make process improvements with suppliers. Learn more from the related report, Product Cost Management – A Knowledge-Based Approach to Optimizing…

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Jim Brown - January 17, 2014 - Filed Under: Presentations & Video, Tech-Clarity TV, Video - Tagged With: Cost Analysis, Cost Optimization, Manufacturing Cost, PCM, Product Cost Management, Supplier Negotiation, Tech-Clarity TV, Video

Product Cost Management – A Knowledge Based Approach to Optimizing Product Cost

Product Cost Management – A Knowledge Based Approach to Optimizing Product Cost explains how manufacturers can design products for optimal cost in order to improve profitability. The research shares interviews with three industrial manufacturers on the way they work with their supply chains to reduce cost using an analytical, fact-based methodology to drive out unnecessary…

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Jim Brown - December 23, 2013 - Filed Under: Published Research - Tagged With: Agricultural Equipment, Automotive, Continuous Improvement, Cost Optimization, Database, Insight, Manufacturing Cost, Optimization, PCM, Product Cost, Product Cost Management, Product Lifecycle, Research, Should Cost, Supplier Negotiation, Supply Chain

Product Cost Management as a Link Between Enterprise Systems

I have been discussing product cost management with Eric Hiller for some time and we recently caught up to discuss Siemens PLM’s PCM acquisition. Eric has contributed his views on my PLM and Product Cost Management (PCM) post and followed up with a guest ClarityonPLM post titled Product Cost a Priority? Not now, I’m Busy….

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Jim Brown - October 29, 2012 - Filed Under: Clarity on PLM, Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Acquisition, Costing, Enterprise Systems, ERP, Integration, MRP, PCM, Product Cost Management, PTC, SCM, Siemens PLM, SolidWorks, Suite

Product Cost a Priority? Not now, I’m Busy

I had an opportunity to share ideas and experience about product cost management and product profitability with Eric Hiller. Eric responded to my post on PLM and Product Cost Management (PCM) and we have shared some great dialogue following that. Eric has some great experience in this area and I asked him if he would…

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Jim Brown - September 22, 2011 - Filed Under: Clarity on PLM, Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Eric Hiller, Guest, PCM, PLM, Product Cost, Product Cost Management, Product Profitability

Do You Design for Compliance, Sustainability and Cost? Survey says…

A quick peek into some research on … designing products for environmental compliance from our 2009 report. And maybe more importantly, here is the link to participate in the 2011 study on designing for compliance, cost, and sustainability. This year, I am expanding the research to recognize the trade-offs sometimes required between cost and compliance….

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Jim Brown - December 1, 2010 - Filed Under: Clarity on PLM, Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Compliance, Cost, Environmental, PCM, Product Cost Management, Research, Research Rap, Survey, Sustainability

Did PLM Give Up on Product Cost Management?

Product cost is not getting the attention it deserves in PLM. I was presenting on the future of PLM and a participant asked “why I hadn’t included cost in the future of PLM?”

Jim Brown - June 9, 2010 - Filed Under: Clarity on PLM, Insights, Insights & Activity - Tagged With: Adidas, Agile, Akoya, aPriori, Cost, Dassault Systemes, Design for Cost, Oracle, PCM, PLM, Price, Product Cost Management, PTC, SAP, Siemens PLM

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