Exmark Selects Software Company to Support Product Cost Reduction Initiatives

Software company aPriori announced that Exmark Manufacturing, a manufacturer of mid-size commercial walk-behind and riding lawn mowers, has selected the aPriori Product Cost Management Platform to support its product cost reduction initiatives. With aPriori, Exmark will increase its ability to drive costs out of its products both pre- and post-production using real-time product cost assessments that are generated automatically throughout design, sourcing and manufacturing processes.

“With aPriori, Exmark employees understand the cost ramifications of the design, manufacturing and sourcing decisions they make as they make them. As a result, we will avoid costs in new designs, maximize the results of re-design projects and negotiate better deals with our suppliers,” said Dave Converse, director of engineering at Exmark. “In a one-week pilot test, our employees used aPriori to identify more than $350,000 in potential savings on their actual projects. We expect those results to increase significantly when using aPriori full-time.”

“With aPriori, companies know how much a product should cost to manufacture at every point in the product development process. With real-time cost feedback, employees make more-informed decisions that ultimately result in lower product costs,” said Stephanie Feraday, president and CEO of aPriori. “The farm and garden equipment market continues to be a strong vertical for aPriori. With Exmark, another leading company joins the aPriori family.”

The aPriori Product Cost Management Platform is the first software solution to provide discrete manufacturers and product companies with real-time, predictive and precise product cost assessments throughout the development and production process. aPriori’s revolutionary cost management capabilities empower organizations to identify quantifiable savings in material, tooling, labor and overhead when evaluating alternative designs, manufacturing processes and sources.

About Exmark

Exmark Manufacturing was incorporated in 1982 and, since its inception, has been engaged in the design and manufacture of mid-size commercial walk-behind and riding lawn mowers for landscape professionals. In addition to designing, building and marketing quality turf care equipment, Exmark's goal is total customer satisfaction. Products are sold to distributors who, in turn, market to dealers throughout the continental United States and Canada.

About aPriori

aPriori software and services generate hard-dollar product cost savings for discrete manufacturing organizations. Using aPriori’s real-time product cost assessments, employees in sourcing, manufacturing and design engineering make more-informed decisions that drive costs out of products pre- and post-production. With aPriori, manufacturers launch products at cost targets, maximize savings in re-work projects and never overpay for sourced parts.