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Cost driver No. 1:
Superfluous data and material masters

Do you know this? You want to draw a new part, create an offer or find the best supplier and start a search in existing data. Despite "powerful" systems, you can't find anything suitable. Yes, actually you know that you have worked on something similar before. But it is now much too time-consuming to search for it for a long time and to check lists. So the whole process is recreated. This is sub-optimal and works much more efficiently.

Optimizing cost calculations and processing inquiries faster are essential factors that determine success or failure.

Initial situation: painstaking detail work

Recently, we were allowed to watch how incoming customer inquiries are processed in a metal processing company. From our observations, we wanted to develop recommendations for the team management to speed up the processes, because the response times were simply too long. By the time the quotes were submitted, it was usually too late and the requests were piling up...