Complex wire harnesses required manual quoting cycles of 6–8 weeks. No visibility into true cost. Teams depended on supplier pricing without engineering validation.
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.
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.