Pilotez vos coûts pour améliorer la rentabilité de votre entreprise

Spécialiste des méthodes innovantes de calcul des coûts, 4cost propose des solutions logicielles intégrées et des services s’appuyant sur des méthodes et des processus standardisés et efficaces. Cela permet d’accélérer les processus et d’optimiser l’efficacité, au bénéfice de votre entreprise. Le logiciel 4cost garantit un partage fluide des informations relatives aux coûts et autres données, au-delà des frontières entre services. Seule cette approche permet une gestion optimisée des coûts.

Avec des économies substantielles et une accélération pouvant atteindre 80 % par rapport aux méthodes de calcul des coûts traditionnelles, la méthode 4cost, qui regroupe toutes les activités de calcul des coûts, est unique en son genre. Elle s’adapte à tous les secteurs d’activité et à toutes les phases de projet.

La solution adaptée à chaque domaine de l’entreprise

Direction

Corporate, effective product cost management using reliable and transparent cost information with 4cost

Une gestion d’entreprise simple et efficace grâce à une gestion transparente des coûts des produits

Le logiciel de calcul des coûts 4cost fournit à la direction exactement les informations dont elle a besoin. Il permet de prendre des décisions le plus tôt possible, avec un minimum d’efforts et d’erreurs. L’utilisation de la solution 4cost permet d’obtenir des informations transparentes sur la rentabilité des produits ou des projets. Elle aide à identifier les opportunités de croissance et à minimiser les risques financiers. Le logiciel de calcul 4cost offre une base solide pour l’élaboration d’analyses de rentabilité, les décisions de soumission ou de non-soumission d’offres, ou encore les analyses « faire ou acheter », parmi de nombreux autres scénarios possibles.

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Ingénierie des coûts et de la valeur

All product phases accompanied with consistent product cost calculations with 4cost

Des informations cohérentes sur les coûts des produits à toutes les étapes

Les solutions logicielles et de services de 4cost pour la gestion de la valeur. Identifiez très tôt les potentiels d’optimisation des coûts et posez ainsi les bases de produits rentables. Établissez des prévisions de projet fiables à partir de quelques données seulement et modélisez des structures de coûts détaillées en fonction de vos besoins. Identification des facteurs de coût et analyse des coûts à toutes les étapes du cycle de vie des produits. Bénéficiez d’une compréhension optimale des coûts.

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Achats et approvisionnement

Successful price negotiations with suppliers

Réduction des coûts d’achat et amélioration de la performance des services achats

L’utilisation du logiciel 4cost au sein du service des achats garantit une transparence maximale concernant le prix proposé et la structure tarifaire de votre fournisseur. Négociez des réductions spécifiques sur les prix d’achat et obtenez en quelques secondes une vision précise de la structure des frais généraux de vos fournisseurs. Utilisez les différentes fonctionnalités des applications logicielles 4cost pour simuler et évaluer un large éventail de scénarios d’approvisionnement. Cela vous permettra de mettre en œuvre les stratégies d’achat les plus adaptées.

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Développement et conception

Cost-optimised product development with 4cost

Optimiser les coûts dès le développement de vos produits

Les applications logicielles de 4cost accompagnent les phases de développement et de conception afin de garantir des produits optimisés en termes de coûts. Des calculs « Design-to-cost » dès le début. La phase conceptuelle est prise en charge, ce qui vous permet de traduire les spécifications du produit en coûts spécifiques au produit. Les premières phases de la conception du produit offrent la possibilité d’identifier les facteurs de coût et de minimiser le risque de dépasser les limites de coût fixées. Cette méthode standardisée fournit une connaissance approfondie du comportement des coûts et permet d’acquérir une compréhension approfondie de la conception du produit et des coûts associés. Rapide, simple et intuitif pour tous les calculs de coûts, qu’il s’agisse de la conception en fonction du coût, de la conception en fonction de la fabrication ou de la conception en fonction de l’assemblage.

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Ventes

Competitive advantages through optimised quotation processes with 4cost

Des avantages concurrentiels grâce à des processus de devis optimisés

Assurez-vous un avantage concurrentiel décisif dans le domaine commercial en utilisant le logiciel 4cost pour créer et adapter vos devis bien plus rapidement qu’avec les méthodes traditionnelles. Pour une transparence maximale des coûts, les outils de calcul de 4cost vous fournissent toutes les informations nécessaires à l’établissement de devis de manière centralisée, standardisée et claire. Cela facilite la création d’offres cohérentes et bien fondées, avec des prix plausibles et fiables.

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Nos clients internationaux témoignent de leur réussite avec 4cost

“The comparison of providers revealed, that 4cost achieved the highest score. We were particularly convinced by the fact that 4cost’s solutions can be used for all commodities, regardless of technology. Equally decisive was the enormous speed with which cost estimates are possible despite limited information.”

Christian Ahrens Team leader of the Value Engineering department, Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH “A major advantage of the 4cost software is the seamless interlocking of the two costing approaches, top-down and bottom-up. This appeals to a wide variety of cost estimators and ensures a consistent cost view without losing information across all project phases.”

Alexander Nordmeyer Value Engineer, Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH “The departments experience made with the costing software from 4cost are very positive and associated with high savings. By increasing transparency in the cost structures, a monetary benefit in the seven-digit range can already be recorded. We have made the right decision in our selection process and are very happy about our success!”

Manfred Billes Department head of the EEPC team, MAN “From small start-ups to large corporations, costs must be constantly kept in view and controlled, especially in these difficult times. This succeeds very well with the 4cost software and I believe we can generate real added value for our companies.”

Sarah Wörz Officer, Digitalisierungszentrum Ostwürttemberg “The consistent calculation method of the 4cost tools convinced us right from the start. Very quickly we realised, that this methodology supports our needs in calculation, value engineering, purchasing and engineering excellently.”

Frank Hoffmann Head of Supply Chain Management, Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH “With 4cost's modern parametric calculation models it is possible to estimate good and valid costs already in phases with limited detail of knowledge. In order to establish this, we not only made use of 4cost's software solutions, but also using their expertise in value engineering.”

Senior staff member Purchasing department, Rolls-Royce “The 4cost-aces interface is user-friendly and logically structured, especially when compared to other cost estimation tools. This makes it easier to use the tool even for occasional users.”

Thomas Fiedler Head of Cost Architecture A30X, Future Projects & Costing Performance, Airbus Deutschland “We decided on 4cost because we see a significant added value for our calculation and value analysis in a consistent approach from quick cost estimates to detailed calculations. We focus now on the main cost drivers and identify areas with the greatest potential for cost optimization.”

Werner Seifried Technical Director, Liebherr-Hydraulikbagger GmbH (2009) “With 4cost we have a partner with whom we are implementing our objective of a long-term partnership in the areas of cost estimation, value analysis and cost structure analysis. We will continue to establish 4cost's solutions and use them even more intensively in the future, because the added value is obvious.”

Werner Seifried Technical Director, Liebherr-Hydraulikbagger GmbH (2009) “With the parametric cost estimate from 4cost-aces, we are fast and reliably in estimating new assemblies and examine scenarios.”

“With the 4cost-structure calculation tool, we are tracking target costs and manage our projects, including history and versioning.”

Peter Schmidt Value analysis department, Liebherr-Hydraulikbagger GmbH (2009) “The partnership-based cooperation with 4cost enables us to arrive at rapid cost estimates for our projects both in-house and directly at our customers site. I would not have expected a calculation of the costs at such an early stage in the product development process with such depth, consideration of variants and meaningfulness of the answers!”

Matthias Miesbeck Project engineer, HOLZER Firmengruppe “We were enthusiastic about the speed and cost transparency during the 4cost workshops. We used the results from the workshops as a base for our business case analysis. We froze the cost target as cost reference for the subsequent development process and continuously referenced and checked on them.”

Hinrik Weber Head of the optoelectronics business unit, Pepperl+Fuchs “The speed in which the costs are determined is impressive with this method. Elaborate work plans do not have to be predefined and evaluated, because the parametric approach of 4cost-aces is based on material and value-added approaches.”

Ernst Tabel Project manager, Pepperl+Fuchs “With 4cost-aces we are able to arrive at valid cost statements very quickly. Compared to a bottom-up calculation that typically takes several weeks, we only need one to three days for the first cost assessment.”

Gregor Schwab Head of Orders & Offers, Production, EADS Defence & Security “In addition to the drastic time advantage of this costing method, the workshops have another effect that should not be underestimated: all participants agree on a common costing basis during the meetings and evaluate it in detail. The acceptance of the calculated cost values is very high due to the involvement of all participants.”

Gregor Schwab Head of Orders & Offers, Production, EADS Defence & Security “The workshop with the 4cost team was convincing both in terms of methodology and result. We were getting an idea of how the parametric approach of the 4cost-aces costing software works. Many new possibilities could now be approached in our daily work.”

Stefan Buchwald Strategic buyer, BARD Engineering “The 4cost solutions enable us to become an extended workbench to the costing departments of companies in our region.”

Peter Schmidt Head, Digitalisierungszentrum Ostwürttemberg “The early breakdown of product and project costs with 4cost-aces not only offers us a high level of cost transparency, but in particular shows us optimisation potential for development and design. On the one hand, we are thus able to forecast future manufacturing costs in the case of design changes and on the other hand, to independently check manufacturing costs of already existing designs.”

Martin Klotz Product Cost Engineer, Liebherr-Werk Biberach GmbH “The simplicity and speed of creating and comparing different technical, location and quantity scenarios in 4cost-aces is impressive.”

Andreas Müller Senior Operations and Procurement Manager, AutoFlight Europe “Thanks to the workshop with 4cost, we received meaningful and transparent results in a short time, which allows us to take measures at an early stage to secure the profitability of our products.”

Andreas Müller Senior Operations and Procurement Manager, AutoFlight Europe “The use of 4cost-aces has led to a considerable improvement in our efficiency, as we calculate up to 75 % faster. Cost calculations that would otherwise take us several weeks to complete are done within a few days with 4cost-aces.”

Hanno Pieles Director Business Unit Performance, newboxes “4cost-aces has become a valuable tool for our company because we use it to help our clients increase their cost transparency significantly and take their cost management to the next level.”

Hanno Pieles Director Business Unit Performance, newboxes "Parametric costing enables us to create valid calculations in the early quotation phases with relatively little effort."

Tim Wiedemann Systems Engineer, MT Aerospace AG “Thanks to 4cost-aces, we can plan and implement our projects more efficiently. The software has established itself as an indispensable tool in our development process and contributes significantly to the success of our projects.”

Hannes Büttner Head of Projects & Value Analysis, BAUER Maschinen GmbH “The calculations using parametrics are incredibly fast compared to the bottom-up approach, which allows us to react quickly to new requirements and designs. The design-to-cost process is streamlined and requires fewer resources.”

Hannes Büttner Head of Projects & Value Analysis, BAUER Maschinen GmbH “With the introduction of 4cost-aces, we have consistently enhanced our established processes. Following an intensive testing and implementation phase, nearly all cost estimates at MTG are now carried out using 4cost-aces.”

Michael Rudius Head of Operations, MTG Marinetechnik GmbH “With 4cost-aces, we can now perform calculations even in areas where we previously had to rely on approximate values—such as for project management, documentation, software, and maintenance costs.”

Michael Rudius Head of Operations, MTG Marinetechnik GmbH Rheinmetall MAN digiZ Rolls-Royce Airbus Liebherr Holzer Pepperl+Fuchs EADS BARD AutoFlight Europe GmbH newboxes GmbH MT Aerospace AG BAUER Maschinen GmbH MTG Marinetechnik GmbH
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