Case Study: Axcelis Technologies achieves 10% cost savings on a large spend with aPriori

How Axcelis Technologies Saved 10% on a Large Spend

Axcelis Technologies, a small but established maker of ion implantation equipment for the semiconductor industry, needed a better way to drive value engineering and quantify cost avoidance. Their legacy process was slow (often waiting weeks for supplier quotes), making it hard to spot supplier price anomalies and reduce material and labor costs on low‑volume, highly customized parts.

By adopting aPriori’s product costing and spend‑analytics tools, Axcelis scanned ~100 machined and sheet‑metal parts, built cost‑vs‑mass baselines, and identified a supplier charging substantially higher prices. After renegotiating across 10 components they secured a 10% discount on the discrepant parts, reduced material costs and labor hours, and established repeatable design‑for‑cost reviews that drive future cost avoidance.

Axcelis Technologies

Tim O'Regan

Business Excellence Manager