Updated Default Material Purchase Volume

Material Costs now Default to “High Volume” Price Points for all Process Groups

The default material purchase volume for Digital Factories across baseline RDLs now is set to reflect high-volume usage.

The aPriori Regional Data Libraries include material pricing data for both “low volume” and “high volume” price points. Previously, for some process groups, the “low volume” (higher price) rates were used by default to compute Material Costs. Customers could adjust their digital factories to apply “high volume” (lower price) rates, if desired.

aPriori recognizes that aPriori’s customers generally purchase materials in high volumes and receive more favorable pricing. Therefore, the default setting for Digital Factories across baseline RDLs now is set to reflect high volume material purchasing and corresponding costs (purchase factor = 1.00).

This is a change in behavior from the previous default setting of low volume (purchase factor = 2.348, rounded in the display to 2.35) which had been in effect since aP Pro 2021 R1.

As a result of this change, default material prices are reduced by a factor of 2.348 in the following process groups :

  • Bar & Tube Fab

  • Forging

  • Multi-Spindle Machining

  • Sheet Metal

  • Sheet Metal – Hydroforming

  • Sheet Metal – Stretch Forming

  • Sheet Metal – Transfer Die

  • Stock Machining

If desired, administrators can modify this setting to reflect low-volume material purchasing and pricing levels, using the Deployment Data module of the Digital Factory Toolset. For information on how to change the low vs high volume assumption, please see the section Managing Default Purchase Volumes in the aPriori 2023 R1 SP2 version of the Digital Factory Administration Guide.

For process groups not listed above, such as Plastic Molding, default material pricing assumptions were not changed, as this pricing already was aligned with higher-purchase-volume levels.

For more information on how to retain lower-volume material pricing if desired, see the Regional Database Libraries for 2023-09.