Automotive · Wire Harness
Wire Harness Open Book Model
From 6 weeks of manual quoting to 30 seconds. VP Award.
14%Saved
AwardSpend
14%Reduction
The Challenge
Where it started.
Complex wire harnesses required manual quoting cycles of 6–8 weeks. No visibility into true cost. Teams depended on supplier pricing without engineering validation.
CSC Approach
What we did.
Built an engineering-driven cost model and automated pricing tool for complex harness designs. Broke down cost into materials, process, margin. Enabled instant should-cost and reverse quoting — John Deere defines the price, not the supplier.
The Outcome
Result.
14% cost competitiveness improvement. 30 seconds vs. 6–8 weeks. Reverse quoting enabled. Recognized with the John Deere Vice President's Award for the Open Book Cost Modeling Project with Aptiv.
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