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i4cast is a total cost management (TCM)
solution focused on delivering right-time, accurate cost for the
enterprise-wide financial supply chain. Our enterprise cost
management solutions combine traditional product costing with the
latest in operational financial modeling, forecasting and
collaboration.
Our products serve as a central decision
support system to view the impact of change across your operational
activities and processes to model change and impact results. Our
bottom-up and top down costing approach allows organization to view
and model all aspects of their environment to ensure maximum profits
are being considered. In short, we allow our clients to have the
very best costing information to build and manage greater product
profitability, reduce cost of goods sold and increase time to market
capabilities.
i4cast eliminates the silos that often exist between sales,
marketing, finance, engineering, procurement, and manufacturing to
facilitate a rapid flow of information between all business
functions.
i4cast solutions drive forward these key organizations
objectives:
 Make costing
and financial modeling a business-driven activity, not a staff-driven
function.
Make decisions
on the basis of value.
Build a business
smart costing and financial modeling organization.
Drive simplicity
and flexibility throughout the organization.
Demand business
results and tangible return on investment.
Show consistent
year-to-year productivity improvements.
The i4cast product
suite allows our customers to manage every aspect of their
financial supply chain. From raw materials to finished goods, i4cast
provides the strategic information needed to drive increased
profitability for the enterprise.
Our suite of tools includes:
 Central
Console for Global Cost Management
 Partner
Collaboration and Management
 Contract
and Commodity
Cost Management
Our product cost management suite provides:
Collaborative
costs and financial modeling communication across the enterprise
supply chain
Configurable
costing disciplines, including standard costs, just-in-time costs,
target costs,
 blended costs,
and others
Superior availability
of data to assist in global manufacturing, procurement consolidation,
merger/acquisitions,
and e-business intelligence
Increased
accountability for cost and forecasting accuracy
A robust enterprise
architecture with cross-platform integration with SAP, PeopleSoft,
SAS, QAD and J.D.
Edwards
Forecast product
delivery impact and forward costs up to 18 periods in advance
Right-time
product costing that drives revenues and lowers product cost to
provide a
competitive
advantage in the marketplace
Jointly collaborate and co-source
best product cost from customers, OEM’s, partners and
suppliers to all affected global business units.
Improve the time to market and
product profitability though enhanced BOM collaboration with
partners
as well as your
internal sales, design, finance, procurement and engineering groups.
Provide in depth and granular views
of real-time costing data including materials, logistics,
labor & overhead,
warranty, royalty and other costs that identify cost savings,
drive revenues
and lower product
cost.
Automate re-pricing and contract
negotiation process with extensive vendor viability capability.
Extensive BOM Modeling and Cost
Estimating/Quote Management including "What if", Variance
Reporting and Impact Analysis capabilities.
Dashboarding of Key Cost
Performance Indicators
"Should Cost", "Best Cost" and "True
Cost" Modeling
Supplier spend and performance
information to assist in the development of new or existing
partners.
Benchmark and source across multiple
business partners, suppliers and manufacturing plants.
To request a product brochure, please fill out our online
form.
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