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The Saphran value proposition is based on the simple fact that our solution is designed to make you money — quickly. Saphran PartBase™, QuoteBase™, and Center of Excellence capture and accommodate your existing processes for long-term forecasting cost analysis and quote generation. You have the ability to apply the formulas normally trapped in spreadsheets, and dramatically improve accuracy and efficiency by standardizing the input for designers, manufacturing engineers, buyers, estimators, account executives and executive approvers. The result is a standard form for costs and a price that automatically updates and enables you to manage the margins. Through automating your workflow, we achieve bottom line results through your people using your process.

Further Empower Your Forecasting and Estimating Teams

Saphran's software modules empower your organization to efficiently and accurately communicate and analyze part data. In using these Saphran modules you will achieve:

More Accurate and Efficient Costing and Quoting.
Streamlined and Integrated Cost Planning and Long Term Forecasting.
Administrative Human Resource Balancing.
Automated Executive Reporting Reporting and Team Dashboarding.
Drill Down to Find Best and Worst Forward Profit Risk to Take Earlier Counter Measures.
Forecast Scenarios and Quote Scenarios Create Unparallel Level of Risk and Profit Sensitivity
Analysis that is Actionable While Simultaneously Reducing Current Work Load.

Extend the Confidence of Your Customer Facing Teams

We help you understand your costs and economic risks, so that you can confidently quote to your customers while understanding the variables that effect your margin. The Saphran modules provides your sales and purchasing teams access to key data points as they negotiate with your customers and suppliers. PartBase and QuoteBase will help you reconcile changes in data such as:

Plant Floor Process Re-engineering.
Raw Material or Component Cost Changes.
Exchange Rate Fluctuation.
Direct Labor Rate Changes.
Indirect Rate Changes (labor or machine).
S.G.A. Rate Changes.
Capacity Planning/Machine Changes.

Drive Towards a Stronger Bottom Line

PartBase and QuoteBase and Center of Excellence (COE) can help you achieve significant revenue generation and cost savings in the same solution. A very simple but practical example is the following scenario. A Closed-Loop Commercial Optimization system will help your team members to see this type of opportunity or risk much earlier and more reliably.

A 5% variance on a 4-year contract for a $5 part can produce:

$5 Million in Lost Revenue due to an over-quote.
A $250 Thousand Loss Leader due to an under-quote.

Saphran Solutions has developed a "Commercial Process Business Insight Calculator" tool that has helped several automotive suppliers and customer manufacturers create a consensus view of the current hidden costs and lost profit opportunities across many functions, regions, and levels of the organization. The tool also helps prioritize the team’s or company's highest short term cost or profit improvement levers and helps assess the strategic value. Most customers have used this to better define a tactical payback focus that has typically been between 2-9 months. This has also allowed Saphran to support the customer with our Rapid Business Improvement facilitation to not only replace current capabilities, but to create a model of an important new commercial best practice capability. Our customers have really appreciated Saphran's focus on attaining real value and ROI right away and over each year. We are proud of the great customers and the level of business value they are obtaining by better seeing and acting on future margin and risk opportunities quickly.

Contact Saphran to obtain your Commercial Process Business Insight Calculator.