Leading Car Audio Maker Achieves Real-time Visibility into Product Cost Early in the Development Cycle SITUATION The product development team of the customer was accustomed to using spreadsheets for cost estimation and relied on multiple sources for collating the component and assembly costs. IMPACT The manual process was time consuming and error prone with a possibility of data loss during collection from various sources. The Customer had set up organization wide product cost optimization goals which were to be achieved by the product development team. RESOLUTION Our solution helped the Customer to systematically plan their product costs early in the development process with direct inflow of data from the PLM system. This real time visibility combined with granular an

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