Your Design Cycle Is Too Fast for Old Costing Tools: Here’s How to Keep Up
In today’s hyper-competitive manufacturing landscape, product design cycles move faster than ever. Teams are under pressure to launch quickly, iterate often, and beat competitors to market. But there’s a hidden cost to speed: accurate cost data can’t keep up. By the time procurement or finance runs the numbers, the design is already locked, or worse, in production. This lag creates a reactive environment where cost overruns become inevitable.