Supply Chain

Spec, Shop, and Buy smarter with the same resources and perspectives that our engineering and manufacturing customers rely on. Reliable benchmarking, cost engineering, and ideation project management to result in lower bill of material costs, higher throughput in your manufacturing processes, and increased profits.

Supply Chain

How We Strengthen Supply Chain Decisions

Should-costing

Objective, data-driven, and industry-proven cost engineering analysis to provide you supply chain teams with actionable estimates.

Delta-costing

Quickly- developed comparison costs to provide benchmark references and determine where opportunities exist.

Target Cost Development

Engineering Empathy considering your real-world options, combined with clarity of our Design Profit cost estimating resources.

Design to Cost

Collaborative DFM/A resources that drive optimized designs to meet your cost targets.

Product Design Reviews

Fresh eyes reviews, DFM/A Workshops, Cost Reduction Ideation... Lean Design analysis and integration before higher costs are built in.

Success Story

Industrial Rooftop HVAC Unit

Identify improvement ideas to decrease material and labor costs

Success Story

Vehicle Technical Costing for Supplier Negotiation

Technical costing analysis on select components for a future vehicle model

The end result was a design that can be built for less than the original production cost goal, fit in a smaller space, and is more producible. With the improved product, several new markets have opened.

Michol R. Fletcher Director of Programs, CES