Where there is uncertainty, we provide cost and price transparency
costdata® is a full-service provider with the world's largest price and cost database. Based on extensive data volumes and powerful software tools, the company calculates and simulates costs and prices for products and services worldwide.
Quality and reliability for top companies
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Our areas of application in the manufacturing industry
The areas in which we support the industry
We help various departments in companies that trade in physical products to make their cost structures transparent, define realistic target prices and achieve sustainable competitive advantages through data-based decisions.
Cost Engineering
Cost efficiency down to the last detail:
Our solutions help you to calculate down to the smallest detail and optimize costs.
Our solutions help you to calculate down to the smallest detail and optimize costs.
Purchasing / external production
Efficiency in supplier negotiations: Compare supplier prices with market data and use methods such as Should Costing to achieve competitive conditions.
Finance & Controlling / In-house production
Competitive production costs:
Evaluate the profitability of your own production and identify potential savings.
Evaluate the profitability of your own production and identify potential savings.
Product Development
Keep an eye on costs right from the start:
Control costs right from the design and planning phase to avoid costly mistakes.
Control costs right from the design and planning phase to avoid costly mistakes.
Benchmark data is at the heart of what we do.
The costdata® market data contains average prices/costs from a wide range of specialist areas. The data enables a competitive and price comparison of internal prices or supplier offers in relation to the market. If the internal price or the price quoted by the supplier is lower than the costdata benchmark, this represents a competitive scenario.
Industries represented by our customers
Are you part of one of these industries?
We offer you high-quality solutions for your industry - simple, precise and always up-to-date.
Automotive & commercial vehicle industry
Trading company
Consulting company
Household enterprises
Chemical & pharmaceutical industry
Heating & air conditioning industry
Energy industry
Consumer goods & consumer durables industry
Aircraft & defense industry
Mechanical engineering industry
Our services
The pioneer of product cost-based solutions for decades
Data
costdata® market data
costdata® market data is an indicator of cost structure and competitiveness. You check prices, control offers, discover excessive profit margins and avoid expensive wrong decisions.
Software
costdata® calculation
In conjunction with our data, our costdata® calculation software provides a perfect basis for your cost engineering decisions. Fast, precise, intuitive and ideally tailored to your individual requirements.
Consulting
costdata® consulting
Our consulting team supports you in all facets of cost engineering: calculation, optimization, analysis, training. We develop a transparent overview of all savings and optimization potentials.
Master of data.
You can also compare all our benchmark data in your favorites list. Create your individual dashboard and keep track of materials, machine data, personnel costs, location costs and total cost surcharges.
Our new power tool for your product
Discover the cost drivers
The costdata® commodity price tracker uses historical data and detailed cost trends to enable precise market analyses. Whether individual products or entire commodity groups - at the end of the analysis you can see at a glance by what percentage the total costs have changed
Creating transparency together
Become part of our team
Would you like to be part of a team that develops customized solutions for the success of its clients? At costdata® we offer comprehensive services in the areas of market data, software and consulting to help our clients optimize costs effectively.
Author CEO Frank Weinert
Book release:
Modern Cost Engineering
costdata® has created the largest cost database in the world. In this book you will learn how modern cost engineering can help your company to remain competitive in the long term. It offers you not only concrete key figures, but also practical insights into tools and organizational structures that will increase your efficiency and reduce costs. An exclusive insight into the costdata® tools rounds off the book and shows how you can use these advantages in your company.
Developed by costdata®
The "Controlled Profit Management" method
Controlled Profit Management is more than just a concept - it is a methodology developed by Frank Weinert that enables companies to reduce costs across departments and increase profits in a targeted manner. With his decades of experience as CEO of costdata® and as a guest lecturer at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, he has continuously developed this method. Discover how CPM makes your departments from purchasing to product development more efficient and keeps you competitive.
Both for industrial customers and for extended sectors.
Service & project cost calculation
As in industry, the service sector also needs the right tools for cost calculations, particularly in the area of service and project costs. As we have been professionals in cost engineering for decades, it was easy for us to cover these areas as well.
IT & software service provider
Engineering and planning offices
Banking
Logistics & transportation services
Craft & building services
Research and laboratory services
etc.
Great network
Innovation through strong partnerships
Through our partnerships in cost engineering, we provide our customers with customized solutions of the highest quality that meet their needs and requirements and are based on a solid foundation.
