Manufacturers in aerospace, defense, and heavy industry must continuously drive affordability and cost efficiency to remain competitive. Cost reduction programs typically span multiple departments and suppliers, involving complex tracking, approvals, and reporting. Manual processes and spreadsheets create inefficiencies, inconsistent evaluation of initiatives, and limited transparency. To address this, a major manufacturer implemented Decisions as a project management and workflow platform for affordability solutions.
Challenge
Before Decisions, the company faced:
- Fragmented project tracking across spreadsheets and disconnected tools.
- Manual evaluation of cost reduction initiatives, leading to delays and inconsistencies.
- Limited visibility into program status and financial impact.
- High administrative burden for coordinating updates, approvals, and reporting.
- Inability to scale as the number of initiatives grew across programs and facilities.
Solution
Decisions was deployed as an affordability management hub, providing:
- Centralized workflows to track cost reduction projects from ideation to execution.
- Rules-driven evaluations to prioritize initiatives based on savings potential, feasibility, and compliance.
- Automated approvals to ensure consistent governance and accountability.
- Role-based dashboards for executives, program managers, and analysts to monitor initiative progress and financial outcomes.