Why Traditional Should-Cost Modeling Fails at Enterprise Scale (And How You Can Fix It)
You’ve cost out your top parts. What about the other 70%? A model takes weeks to build, can be obsolete in 6–8 weeks, and depends on a handful of experts, so most spend never gets one. The biggest opportunity often sits in the middle of the spend Pareto, which is the part nobody has time to model. A European packaging manufacturer went from modeling 60–70 SKUs to all 20,000+ in two weeks, delivering roughly 3x the savings in 1/20th of the time. See how agentic should-costing turns a one-off project into continuous coverage.
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- Commodity specifications must be matched to current market indices
- Labor rates need regional adjustments
- Overhead allocations require detailed breakdowns of production processes.