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Where’s Finance and Accounting in Product Cost Management? (Part 1 of Pete...

I just read the article “Putting it All Together at Harley-Davidson” in the July 2012 [July??] Blue Heron Journal.   The article is a profile on Pete Schmitz, a Honda veteran in Product Cost...

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What are you trying to boil? (Part 2 of Pete Schmitz at Harley-Davidson)

To continue my thoughts from last week’s blog regarding the article  “Putting it All Together at Harley-Davidson“, I’ve put together some additional insights below. Keep Your Product Cost Management...

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Don’t Pave the Cowpath; Plan the Autobahn (Part 3 of Pete Schmitz at...

Today we have the third in our series of insights from the article “Putting it All Together at Harley-Davidson.” At the end of the article, Pete Schmitz strikes a chord in my heart when talking about...

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The Voice of Should-Cost (Voices Series, Part 3)

It’s been a couple of weeks, since we discussed the Voices series, so if this post is interesting to you, you may want to go back and read the first two: Do you hear the voices? (Voices Series, Part 1)...

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Your Should-cost Number is Wrong, But It Doesn’t Matter

Last week Hiller Associates published an article on Should-cost in one of the leading online magazines for manufacturing companies, IndustryWeek.com.   Below is a synopsis  of the article.  However,...

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Hiller Associates becomes an author on Engineering.com

  Hiller Associates has been invited to become an author on ENGINEERING.com.   The Canadian company, headquartered in Ontario, has become one of the most influential voices in engineering worldwide....

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Comparing Quote Apples with Estimate Oranges

Today we are reposting the article we wrote this week for ENGINEERING.com.  The original article is here and our announcement of our partnership with ENGINEERING.com is here.  Enjoy! === One of the...

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Form, Fit, and Function – A Framework for your Bill of Material

Continuing , the series on the Bill of Material we began with the article Dr. Strangepart: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BOM, here is a full re-print of the next in the series.  You can...

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Opposing Forces in your Bill of Materials

We received the following question about Bills of Material (BOMs) from a product development manager: QUESTION: “How does one balance the need of a BOM to be expedient and fast for real world use,...

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Relative Cost Power – How to not know the cost of your products and win...

NEW ARTICLE in Industryweek.com by Hiller Associates Synapsis:  No matter how badly you think you are pinned down in a pricing negotiation, there are always tools for leverage that can help you improve...

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Three Sheets to the Wind! — How the supply chain for toilet paper works and...

Have you spent time in long lines at Costco or at another store only to be disappointed when you get inside and not find one of one of life’s most fundamental and critical products… dot you know what...

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Corona Supply Chain Blues — what to do about cost, when delivery is a problem

The old world… So, you had a supply chain, and you thought it was pretty “optimized.” Yeah, you could improve it here and there, but you had wrung out 95%+ of the addressable waste. To really make...

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WEBINAR Thursday, May 28. Sign-up for free!

    Recently, our managing partner, Eric Hiller, published an article at aPriori’s website called:  6 STEPS TO OVERCOMING THE SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS The response was so good, that aPriori is having Eric...

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5 Questions for Better Cost Management Discussions (Industry Week Series Part 1)

Hello Cost Management aficionados! We have an exciting new series that our managing partner, Eric Hiller, is writing for Industry Week, who has eagerly accepted all the content.   The series is all...

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