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CIS’s typical client sells a product with many options and who have a need to replace their exiting quoting process. They need to ensure that all user types can create accurate and valid orders.
aerospace & defense; automotive & transportation; industrial machinery; high tech electronics; consumer durables; medical equipment
Also their service is always excellent and we are pleased with our relationship.
Our only complaint has been the inability to customize our own Quote forms to fit our needs. Any changes need to go through CIS to get the forms as we need or to add new ones.
CIS has been a great partner in adding customizations to fit our needs. Whereas nothing is free in this world, their prices for customizations and changes are not out of line.
User friendly but it has show problems in the past such as no connectivity or slows down a lot.
Easy to get up and running; very reliable - virtually 100% up-time in 3 years of use; excellent customer service.
CIS configurator is helpful simplifying our day-to-day job and the service is always excellent.
It's great tool we almost now able to do more costing projects which is not earlier by using excel based costing ,great for making supplier based VPE it is saved lot time for quoting.
It struggles with parts containing tight GD&T. And when upgrading to a new version, it is a challenge to get up and running quickly.
The ability to customize code is another great positive of this software compared to previous ones I've used.
Sometimes it is hard to modify the custom routings and the custom processes.
The thing that I most like is the velocity and the report. I have been a day with this tool and the velocity is very important to the NPI and the negotiation.
Not able to cost complex sheet metal parts. List of materials is limited.
It's easy to use, easy to understand the processes and easy to make changes in a great diversity of commodities.
For complex components, it requires manipulation of the simulation to produce an accurate cost.
Carolyn L.: Hi, my name is Carolyn. I am a design engineer. I give a rating of four out of five to aPriori, and for more reviews like this, please click below. The software gives us a better idea of how much our mechanical designs should cost, so we can use them to leverage negotiation with fabrication and manufacturers, and people further down the line in supply chain. Yeah, what I like the best about aPriori is that it has a very supportive group of cost engineers and program managers who are there to help their clients succeed, making sure they know how to use the aPriori tool, and get the most out of their licenses and their permissions with editing different functions in aPriori for costing and giving advice on providing engineering changes and design changes to our products. While aPriori has a phenomenal tool set for should costing, it's designed for manufacturing input, and feedback is a little lacking. The software is primarily beneficial for cost engineers or supply chain managers and users versus more so for design engineers. I believe that if they can provide more feedback for good manufacturing practices or better input on how to improve our mechanical designs, it would be a more useful software for design engineers like me.
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