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Effective Price Analysis

Track Market Average price trends
Analyze Price Competitiveness
Evaluate Price Proposals
Quantify savings from price negotiations

Robust Cost Analysis

Cost breakdowns for Products and Services
Detailed Bill of Materials compositions
Detailed Statement of Work scoping
Product and Service Should Cost Models

Collaborative Cost Optimization

Cost Driver analysis for critical costs
Cost Driver optimization strategies
Sustainable and repeatable workflow
Leverage breakthrough ideas

Track Market Average Price Movement

Track Price Movement with easily accessible market average price trends for thousands of products and services and analyze percentage changes in price for desired time ranges.

Compare Against My Prices

Leverage ANKLESARIA’s groundbreaking Competitive Advantage Measurement System (CAMS™) methodology to

Compare trends of historical and current prices paid to suppliers against market average price trends.
Assess competitiveness of prices paid to suppliers and quantify the advantage or disadvantage of the prices v/s the market.
Evaluate competitiveness of price proposals submitted by suppliers.

Price Forecasts

Generate short-term directional price forecasts for thousands of Products and Services with the click of a single button.

Industry Cost Profiles (ICP)

Generate Industry Cost Profiles (ICP) for Manufacturing and Service Industries to understand the average percentage breakdown of price into its subsequent cost elements. Estimate ICPs for large enterprises as well as small and medium enterprises.

Estimate critical cost elements and their cost drivers

Generate comprehensive Bills of Materials (BOM) for products and Statements of Work (SOW) for services.
Estimate cost drivers like unit prices, waste factors and required quantities to quantify direct material costs.
Estimate cost drivers like wage rates, utilization factors and required hours to quantify direct labor costs.

Should Cost Analysis.

Generate automated Should Cost analysis using ANKLESARIA’s tried and tested should cost modelling process for thousands of products and services.

Shell

“ANKLESARIA continues to demonstrate how additional value can be found using their platform and processes on an individual contract or at an overall category level. I have experienced their ability to handle every type of project from basic industry cost models to complex TCO models to contract value optimizations at two major companies in the Oil & Gas industry. We found their teacher/coach approach essential in obtaining internal buy-in and making their platform and processes part of our DNA.”

Paul Massih

Former Vice President, Contract and Procurement UI, Shell International Exploration and Production

Major Beverage Co.

“We have been successfully applying ANKLESARIA’s “should cost” methodology with several of our suppliers during our current new contract negotiations and my team has simply been pumped-up with the insight, information and success thus far. With your great help, we have taught some of my people “how to fish” and seeing them energized by this work is so gratifying to me. Thanks again for working with us.”

V.P. Strategic Sourcing, A Major Beverage Company

LG Electronics Inc.

“ANKLESARIA is a valued partner in the change management at LG Electronics. AIM&DRIVE® became part of our culture and our commitment to lower our costs through a ‘win win’ approach with our suppliers. The in-depth tools, techniques and teachings of ANKLESARIA helped LG save millions of dollars more and fundamentally changed how effectively we do Procurement.”

Tom Linton

Former Executive Vice President, Chief Procurement Officer, LG Electronics Inc.

Lutron Electronics Co.

“We recently sought the advice of an expert to help us in our total value improvement initiatives. Through our industry contacts, we became aware of Jimmy Anklesaria’s book, Supply Chain Cost Management, and engaged him in an interactive Aim & Drive® lecture and workshop with our teams. We immediately recognized the potential of employing this process, and we were excited about the opportunities presented. We believe that the structured and collaborative system for managing costs with suppliers and customers can provide the framework to create benchmarking practices and optimize the hidden value in the supply chain. The AIM&DRIVE® process can serve as a reliable method for maintaining a competitive advantage in the marketplace, and we look forward to realizing the results of these important initiatives.”