Sapien for Manufacturing
Connect production, purchasing, and finance. Sapien traces changes in profit to the plant, line, supplier, or SKU behind them.
April → May
Select a driver to explore the calculation.
An additional 5,000 rejected units increased material loss. Start the line-level review here.
Quality records · Rejected units
Which lines account for the increase in scrap?
Business Unit Vice President of Finance, Aftermarket Division · Carlex“That was a $1.5 million opportunity we found through Sapien that we would never have looked at through the normal analysis. It took 20 minutes.”
Your business logic, built in
Sapien connects your data and maps the relationships behind it. Your team adds the definitions, rules, and exceptions that make the analysis useful.
Explore the platformNet sales less materials, direct labor, and allocated plant overhead. Map every production line to the same plant hierarchy used by finance.
Cooper Standard connected components, suppliers, and vehicle programs—and taught Sapien the unit conversions behind them. Program-cost analysis expanded from roughly 10% of the required scope to the full dataset.
Read the Cooper Standard story“You can see the math of what it is doing. You can check it as it is calculating its answer to see if there are any mistakes.”
Senior Finance Manager · Cooper Standard
From the first question to the next decision
Decompose cost movement by material, labor, overhead, and input price across every plant, line, SKU, and supplier. Pinpoint exactly where to drive savings.
Separate market-driven price changes from supplier behavior and quantify cost impact by site and volume. Arm procurement to renegotiate with data, not scorecards.
Tie yield, scrap, throughput, and downtime to financial outcomes so you fix the issues that actually move the P&L. One driver view for ops and finance.
Compare tariff exposure, supplier changes, input cost shifts, and new product or market entry side by side. Know exactly when to reprice, where to resource, and what the full P&L impact looks like before you commit.
