According to Arno Hiller, an authority in Product Cost Management:
- Controlling costs is a challenge for manufacturing companies.
- The two strategies for controlling costs are “cost avoidance” and “cost reduction.”
- Most companies focus on cost reduction, instead of cost avoidance.
- Solely focusing on cost reduction is expensive and drains far more profits over time.
- The solution: combine cost reduction with cost avoidance, putting the majority of the focus on avoiding costs before production begins.
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Arno Hiller, If Your Company Does Product Cost Reductions, It’s Already Too Late. In: Industryweek.com, 2013
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