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How to Build the Business Case and Win Budget for Cost Optimization Initiatives

Still missing out on savings because you’re not using the right costing tools? This guide shows how modern product costing software like Tset helps reduce manual work, improve collaboration, and uncover cost opportunities hiding in your current processes. Discover a clear, step-by-step framework to calculate ROI of a cost engineering tool and build a business case that gets management buy-in.

About this guide

How much savings is your team missing without the right cost engineering software? Every cost engineering team faces the same challenge: outdated data, manual work, and misalignment across departments. Even experienced teams still struggle with inefficient processes and fragmented tools - leaving cost savings and faster decisions on the table.

This guide shows how modern costing software like Tset helps break those bottlenecks by centralizing data, automating costing logic, and scaling expertise across the business — without adding headcount. You will also get a practical, step-by-step framework to calculate the ROI of switching to a product costing software and build a solid business case for management buy-in.

If you're still relying on Excel or legacy systems, this guide shows what you’re missing, and how to turn your cost engineering team into a true strategic lever.

Your takeaways at a glance

  • Centralize data to improve collaboration across departments
  • Automate cost calculations to reduce manual effort, save time, and eliminate errors
  • Understand the ROI of product costing software based on your company’s spend and current setup
  • Build a clear, data-backed business case to secure buy-in from your management

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