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

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 Every cost engineering team faces the same challenge: outdated data, manual work, and misalignment across departments.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.