• Develop skills of attendees in order to have a systemic approach on cost of manufactured products
  • Understand Manufacturing Cost Drivers with a factual methodology
  • Calculate Real Cost of Production and Profitability

Issues addressed

  • Price Breakdown (Market Picture) vs Cost Breakdown (Actual cost Picture)
  • Price and Cost Breakdown management, critical analysis
  • How to measure production costs during a Plant Tour?
  • Manufacturing Cost Improvement Plan
  • Cost Drivers identification
  • Total Cost of Ownership
  • Quick costing

Program

  • General Introduction
    • Total Cost of Ownership
    • Price and Cost Breakdown
  • Virtual plant tour (using a simulation game)
    • Direct and Indirect cost structures
      • Purchasing Handling Costs
      • Added Values
      • Overhead (unique approach to understand overheads)
        • Debate on Overhead allocation rules
    • Configuration analysis
      • Effect of Annual needs on cost
      • Effect of Set Up and Batch size on costs
      • Effect of Efficiency improvement on cost
      • Effect of Electricity increase on cost
  • Cost Model Approach
    • Quick costing for New programs
    • Profitability analysis on existing products
  • Input to Strategy definition

Learning outcomes

  • Identify cost drivers in a production process
  • Check list of elements to collect during a plant tour
  • Build a basket of opportunities
  • Prioritise actions through a pareto approach
  • Build robust estimation tools (for quotes to customers or estimation of targets to suppliers)