17/05/2022
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Study | 2022 Purchasing crisis & Recovery patterns
A combination of three factors is driving shortages and price increases across main industrial purchasing commodities.
Read moreIn industrial sectors with low production volumes, such as space, defense and aeronautics, medical imaging or high-tech equipment, the amount of non-recurring costs spent by an industrial on a new program is frequently equivalent to or greater than the sum of recurrent manufacturing costs accumulated over the entire production life of the equipment.
Despite this situation, companies often devote less attention to securing their development costs, compared to efforts dedicated to optimizing the recurring costs of their products. Several factors explain this state of affairs:
The table below provides some representative orders of magnitude by sector of activity.