Released on = May 17, 2006, 7:41 am

Press Release Author = John Busa

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Manufacturing & Technology Profiles Cost Management
Platform by aPriori

Press Release Body = Manufacturing & Technology reaches customers and prospects
throughout Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, and is an important source for news in
technology and manufacturing. The Manufacturers Group Inc., the parent company of
the publication, is a diversified media company providing authoritative print and
online media.

Manufacturing & Technology's monthly print readership exceeds 94,500 company
presidents and vice presidents, managers, engineering, buyers, maintenance, safety
personnel and others. The industrial publication primarily targets tier two and tier
three manufacturing companies. The subscribing company profile typically has 10 to
300 employees and includes upper management, plant managers, design, engineering,
purchasing personnel, and others.

According to leading manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler in the May issue of
Manufacturing & Technology, COGS reduction is one of the fundamental drivers of a
lean manufacturing initiative. Used to measure the ongoing success of lean
manufacturing, it fundamentally captures material, labor, overhead and tooling
costs. However, COGS reduction should not be thought of as a phase in a lean
manufacturing process initiative.

If lean manufacturing initiatives are reducing COGS, manufacturers must be able to
accurately measure and manage costs in real time. Only real-time, predictive cost
estimates can reliably be used to validate lean initiative decisions and guide
corrective actions throughout all the processes of engineering, planning and
production, sourcing, quality control, program management and production delivery.

aPriori's Cost Management Software Platform enables manufacturers to better
understand product cost decisions early and throughout the product lifecycle.
aPriori's Cost Management Platform empowers manufacturers to lower cost-of-goods
sold (COGS), provides real-time visibility to "cost-critical" decision information,
and builds critical cost knowledge to go on the business "offensive." aPriori's
patent-protected cost management platform allows companies to assess, control, and
reduce cost of goods sold by whole percentages. The aPriori Platform enables "Cost
Knowledge Before it Matters."




Web Site = http://www.aPriori.com

Contact Details = aPriori
www.aPriori.com
John Busa
jbusa@apriori.com
978-371-2006