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How One Buyer Used Cost Breakdown Analysis to Cut Spend 18 Percent
In episode 114 of The Buyer's Side, Lucas and Luna unpack a real-world procurement win: how a mid-size manufacturer used cost breakdown analysis to cut spend by 18 percent on a critical injection-molded component. The buyer didn't just ask suppliers for a lower price; she asked them to open their books on material costs, labor hours, overhead, and profit margin. The result? She identified that one supplier was padding raw material costs by 7 percent and another was double-counting tooling amortization. Lucas walks through the step-by-step process of building a should-cost model, the…
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