aP Analytics provides an enterprise-quality business intelligence (BI) reporting solution specifically tailored to assist product development teams in making critical business decisions rapidly. The platform offers comprehensive web-based reporting, interactive dashboards, and robust ad hoc analysis capabilities. It includes a suite of out-of-the-box reports and supports the automated export of cost data to a data mart, streamlining data integration and accessibility. The software enables organizations to develop customized reports for various purposes, including project tracking, scenario comparison, and detailed cost driver analysis. It helps maximize business performance by delivering high-impact dashboards that provide trusted, aggregated numbers directly to decision-makers. aP Analytics delivers insights that are meaningful, actionable, and valuable for managers, project leads, engineers, and sourcing professionals. It also incorporates strong security features, allowing for granular permission settings for authoring, viewing, and modifying reports and visualizations. By providing intuitive self-service access to interactive product cost intelligence, aP Analytics empowers design and sourcing professionals to make data-driven decisions independently, reducing reliance on potentially overloaded cost or manufacturing engineers. It significantly increases visibility for cost management, facilitating the secure distribution of reports across engineering, manufacturing, and sourcing organizations, and offering real-time Design to Cost (DTC) performance and manufacturability recommendations.

Features & Benefits

• Detailed Cost Data for Decisions
  • Provides intuitive self-service access to interactive product cost intelligence, enabling design and sourcing professionals to make data-driven decisions without external help.
• High-Impact Dashboards
  • Allows users to design interactive, role-based dashboards, assemble, personalize, and interact with multiple types of product cost data, and analyze historical and current information concurrently for quick insights.
• Increased Visibility for Cost Management
  • Facilitates secure distribution of reports throughout engineering, manufacturing, and sourcing organizations, delivering real-time Design to Cost (DTC) performance and manufacturability recommendations.
• Customizable Product Cost Reports
  • Enables the generation of detailed part reports on costs, material usage, and manufacturing issues, with links for further analysis.
• Powerful Out-of-the-Box Reports
  • Offers fully customizable cost and manufacturability reports, such as cost outlier analysis, ready for immediate use, empowering users to answer their own business questions.
• Convenient Delivery Method
  • Supports the development of production reports in a single digital environment and their distribution across the enterprise, allowing personalized, interactive reports to be shared on any device.
• Focused Intelligence with Ad Hoc Analysis
  • Makes cost data readily available to support decision-makers, utilizing ad hoc analysis to quickly answer specific business questions.
• Detailed Trend Analysis
  • Delivers intuitive trend analysis through charts and graphs, aiding in performance analysis, time period comparison, and tracking performance milestones, while optimizing digital manufacturing simulation processes.