Become one of our corporate members and enjoy the benefits of having access to cost engineers and analysts that you can rely on. The knowledge of our membership base is expansive, and they are ready to partner with you to make your business more profitable.
At GE Appliances, we make life better by designing and building the world’s best appliances. From design to production to service, our goal is to help people improve their lives at home.
Corporate member, GM is one of the world’s largest automotive OEMs.
3C Software focuses on the needs of finance and operations leaders and practitioners. This has allowed 3C Software to establish itself as a leading provider of cost and profitability solutions to some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Their platform, ImpactECS, gives companies tools to expand their modeling and analysis capabilities beyond traditional ERP offerings. Thus, avoiding the pitfalls of unwieldy spreadsheets and custom-built systems.
As one of our corporate members, aPriori delivers strategic insights for manufacturers to continuously decide how to design a product and where to manufacture it to optimize cash flow, accelerate revenue growth, and improve margin. This unique collaborative platform combines Product Cost Management, Design for Manufacturability and Sustainability, and Supplier Collaboration capabilities.
As one of our corporate members, Campfire Interactive, is the leading provider of portfolio profitability management software in the automotive market. A user base of over 15,000 depends on Campfire to identify, plan, develop and execute their product portfolios. Business processes addressed by the Campfire system include: opportunity management, sales forecasting, market share management, cost and price estimation, change cost management and project portfolio management. Specifically, Campfire empowers automotive industry suppliers with informed, confident business decisions for unprecedented speed, accuracy, and insight to improve profitability.
Develop defensible, fact-based cost estimates with Unison. Unison TruePlanning for Cost Estimation provides cost engineers with the framework, models, and data required for accurate, on-time estimates. Organizations worldwide across the aeronautics, space and commercial industry harness model-based cost engineering, predictive analytics, and process integration to speed up timelines. In other words, learn from your historic data to inform future projects and defend your project lifecycle estimates.
HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Their technology products and services are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. HCL takes pride in its many diversities, social responsibility, sustainability, and education initiatives. Through its worldwide network of R&D facilities and co-innovation labs, global delivery capabilities, and over 208,000+ ‘Ideapreneurs’ across 52 countries, HCL delivers holistic services across industry verticals to leading enterprises, including 250 of the Fortune 500 and 650 of the Global 2000.
Thanks to more than 20 years of experience, a large global partner network and unique software platform, CostPerform has become the leader in cost and performance management software. Their mission is to empower people to solve the most complex cost and performance questions.
CostPerform was founded over two decades ago and, since then, it has evolved into the ultimate solution for cost and performance management – both in terms of experience and knowledge. Currently, over 450 organizations and 600 consultants located in 45 countries use CostPerform’s software – making CostPerform the leader in its field and the professional’s choice for answering the most complex cost and performance questions. CostPerform’s software is designed by cost and performance management experts and is ISO 27001 certified.
Corporate member, costdata GmbH is a global provider of software solutions for purchasing, controlling, sales, and development. They provide worldwide market data and cost analysis consulting services to reduce product, service, and tool costs. Customers receive holistic solutions ranging from external cost analysis to cost reduction workshops, price negotiations and design to cost projects. Savings potentials are guaranteed. In fact, costdata counts numerous well-known international corporations as well as medium-sized companies among the customer base.
Collaborative Supply Chains is a company dedicated to implementing cost models within supply chains. As a third party, we use an independent costing process that achieves common goals of waste reduction and standardization of costing for both the supplier and the customer. Notably, successes with customers include John Deere, Sensata, Roush, General Motors, Bobcat, Doosan, Delphi, Aptiv, Lear, Flextronics and others.
EasyKost is a SaaS software and data publishing company that specializes in cost estimating and product design data exploration utilizing artificial intelligence. The creation of the easyKost company, and of its main software of the same name, was prompted by the need to develop a simpler, less time-consuming approach than the use of should-cost models. The software, data and services offered democratize and simplify cost estimating to allow businesses to design at the right price, improve their time-to-market and boost purchasing performance. Aside from software creation and distribution, the easyKost company also manufactures and creates value added data that makes it possible to enrich company-specific information to achieve a better definition of its products/services.
Corporate member, Costing Expert is the world’s first online product costing software available to everyone. We bring costing expertise to anyone who needs to know what their designs and products should cost. We cost globally for US, Europe, China, India, Brazil, and Mexico. Visit us at www.costing-expert.com.
Senoia Engineering Solutions is a consulting company based out of the Atlanta metropolitan area that specializes in cost engineering and value analysis of electronic and electromechanical assemblies. We help clients find ways to reduce their costs by drawing from over 35 years of engineering, manufacturing, quality, and purchasing experience with an automotive, appliance, and off-highway OEMs.
The FACTON EPC Suite is the leading Enterprise Product Costing (EPC) solution for the automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering, high-tech, and electronics sectors. Through enterprise-wide, streamlined product costing across departments and divisions, FACTON EPC offers complete transparency of product costs.
As a leading global Tier 1 Automotive and Mobility Supplier, AAM (NYSE: AXL) designs, engineers and manufactures Driveline and Metal Forming technologies to support electric, hybrid and internal combustion vehicles. Headquartered in Detroit with over 80 facilities in 18 countries, AAM is bringing the future faster for a safer and more sustainable tomorrow. To learn more, visit aam.com.
MeC is an Italian company born in 2006 and today it is present in the European and American markets to collaborate with the main automotive and industrial manufacturers by improving the costs of design and production processes through competitive benchmarking and advanced cost analysis services. MeC has the advantage of using unique modeling techniques and educational approaches to help customers follow the latest trends in manufacturing. MeC can provide specific cost consultancy services based on customers requirements such as: Should Cost, Cost Management, Cost Reduction, Value Analysis, Cost Benchmarking, Target Costing, Cost Modelling, Cost Education, CO2 Emission Calculation, Re/Offshoring Cost Estimation, Cost Tracking , Supplier Negotiation Support, Value Optimization, and more.