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.

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.

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.

Makersite is an award-winning software company that develops next-generation product data management tools. It’s Product Lifecycle Intelligence platform integrates cost, carbon, compliance, and supply chain risk data into a single platform, enabling product engineering, procurement and expert teams to gain insights across multiple dimensions simultaneously, reducing analysis and decision-making time from months to minutes.

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.

shouldcosting GmbH is a global provider of AI-driven software solutions for procurement, development, production and sales in terms of automated cost calculation, automated savings identification in mass data, automated category management and Sustainability (CO2e). In a globalized world, it is crucial to remain competitive. We increase the competitiveness of companies by enabling them to utilize digital processes. What takes an enormous amount of time to do manually can be made much easier and faster through the digitalization and automation of processes. At a time when AI is increasingly penetrating our everyday lives, it no longer seems appropriate to maintain data manually. This applies in particular to the mechanical engineering industry, where high-quality master data is particularly important and reliable product data is available. Our holistic approach includes data generation, application and utilization and our software platform for automation.