Preh: Optimizing Cost Management with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
Learn how Preh can now work with suppliers to refine product designs and make offerings more competitive, thanks to SAP Product Lifecycle Costing. Preuzmite dokumentINTERNAL – SAP Only (delete if public)
“Thanks to SAP Product Lifecycle Costing, we can
focus on working closely together with our product
development team to refine product designs and
make our offerings more competitive.”
Harald Bayer, Head of Project Calculation, Preh GmbH
Preh GmbH
Bad Neustadt an
der Saale, Germany
www.preh.com
Industry
Automotive
Employees
7,300
Revenue
€1.66 billion
Products and services
Interior vehicle control systems
Featured solutions and services
SAP Product Lifecycle Costing,
SAP ERP, SAP Fiori, and
SAP Services and Support
Less
Time spent by purchasing
staff on cost calculations
Higher
Cost transparency and
insights into cost drivers
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Time-consuming product costing processes involving manual data entry
• Use of multiple spreadsheets across different projects
• Requirement for efficient and accurate costing to support competitive quotes for high-budget contracts
Why SAP
• Robust and standardized product costing foundation based on the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
solution
• Tight integration with Preh’s existing system landscape, enabling twice-daily updates on material
prices from the SAP ERP application
• Implementation guidance and support from SAP experts
• App development services from SAP Services and Support, creating an SAP Fiori app to maintain
material prices based on supplier quotes
• Creation of in-depth reports for cost-driver analysis
After: Value-driven results
• Improved cost transparency, with the ability to more-easily calculate, compare, and analyze costs
• Greater insights into cost drivers, helping Preh raise competitiveness
• Less time spent on cost calculation, freeing purchasing staff to focus on more-strategic tasks
• Increased costing accuracy, using up-to-date costing information without risk of manual data entry errors
Optimizing cost management with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
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“Thanks to SAP Product Lifecycle Costing, we can
focus on working closely together with our product
development team to refine product designs and
make our offerings more competitive.”
Harald Bayer, Head of Project Calculation, Preh GmbH
Preh GmbH
Bad Neustadt an
der Saale, Germany
www.preh.com
Industry
Automotive
Employees
7,300
Revenue
€1.66 billion
Products and services
Interior vehicle control systems
Featured solutions and services
SAP Product Lifecycle Costing,
SAP ERP, SAP Fiori, and
SAP Services and Support
Less
Time spent by purchasing
staff on cost calculations
Higher
Cost transparency and
insights into cost drivers
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Time-consuming product costing processes involving manual data entry
• Use of multiple spreadsheets across different projects
• Requirement for efficient and accurate costing to support competitive quotes for high-budget contracts
Why SAP
• Robust and standardized product costing foundation based on the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
solution
• Tight integration with Preh’s existing system landscape, enabling twice-daily updates on material
prices from the SAP ERP application
• Implementation guidance and support from SAP experts
• App development services from SAP Services and Support, creating an SAP Fiori app to maintain
material prices based on supplier quotes
• Creation of in-depth reports for cost-driver analysis
After: Value-driven results
• Improved cost transparency, with the ability to more-easily calculate, compare, and analyze costs
• Greater insights into cost drivers, helping Preh raise competitiveness
• Less time spent on cost calculation, freeing purchasing staff to focus on more-strategic tasks
• Increased costing accuracy, using up-to-date costing information without risk of manual data entry errors
Optimizing cost management with SAP Product Lifecycle Costing
88957enUS (24/05) © 2024 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use