What is your customer paying for?

Data Engineers is the pioneer in determining brand values and feature pricing on the product and sales channel levels. We can tell you how much the customer is prepared to pay for your brand and for the features of your products and services.

In many industries we can do so with data from online platforms of all possible countries; this data becomes even better with your company-specific sales figures! You’ll be surprised at what findings we’ll provide for you – compare us to the market studies you usually order.

What product portfolio fits your sales channels?

Many companies have too many product variants rather than too few. A historically growing variety of models is offered on the market with the result that you have a few front-runner models and countless variants with homeopathic sales figures. Experts refer to this as “long tail management” and mean the reduction of the number of variants and the associated cost savings and increased efficiency in product development and production.

We help you find answers to these questions with new analytical models and provide you with scenarios of how you can still maintain your sales with fewer variants and even increase your profit margin.

What is the cost of a newly developed component in your products?

Your engineers use today’s most modern CAD tools, and complex PLM solutions are even able to provide detailed cost structure models for the production of these parts.

But what if your engineers had the entire knowledge of your product data and purchasing data available to them so that you already knew in real time before construction how much the new design of a part or component would cost, before you needed to initiate a supplier request or recalculate the part’s internal production? We can show you based on examples of selected parts what a wealth of knowledge your product data contains and how your engineers can utilize it even better.

What are the relevant cost drivers in your material costs?

With our partner h&z we have already analyzed over €10 billion in material costs in countless product groups and we thus know which cost drivers are decisive in each product group. But what percentage these cost drivers amount to for you can only be ascertained through your own data, since every company purchases different values and from different suppliers.

We help you to understand your material costs better and we know how global supply chains work. Target costing and total cost of ownership are concepts we know well, and our analytic methods generate more insights for you than do today’s purchasing consultants.

What value is there in the operating data of your products?

You are already familiar with the examples from many industries of how the operating data of facilities and products show patterns that permit possible failures to be recognized early on. Preventive maintenance is a typical example of big data analytics and shows what potential lies in data when one knows how to evaluate it.

We support your service department in this undertaking with new methods and unusual ideas to help you extract even more value for your customers from your product data!