Expert Assortment Analysis
With Bossard, you can achieve significant cost savings. To reduce your total cost of ownership, we streamline your bill of materials by identifying opportunities for fastener rationalization in your assortment.
Only 15% of a fastener’s total cost comes from the fastener itself. The other 85% arises from procurement, logistics, and handling, ordering and storage, assembly preparation, and other activities. This makes rationalizing C-parts crucial for reducing your product’s total cost of ownership.
Clear fastener selection rules lead to leaner processes in procurement, warehousing, and assembly.
Ensure the correct use of fasteners, fastening technology, and tools to reduce the risk of assembly failures.
Fewer different fasteners in your assortment or in a single product amount to lower costs.
Expert Assortment Analysis: How does it work?
Assortment analysis is an analytical process used to determine the merits of adding, retaining, or standardizing fasteners in the assembly process. Our experts will identify rationalization opportunities by conducting a thorough fastener application audit.
Comprehensive Analysis
A systematic on-site analysis of the entire assortment of fastening elements
An estimate of the costs saved, based on the TCO principle
Optimization Proposals
Possible technical improvements will be verified; proposals for new and proven solutions will be developed; a detailed technical report shows the observations
A technical report and a presentation to present the proposal with results. Physical samples provided
Implementation and Realization
Project team and priorities set up
Assembly and usage instructions; support of the R&D engineering team during the implementation phase
Training on-/offsite
Customer Success
Discover how we analyzed assembly lines and over 2,000 fasteners in detail, identifying more than 700 optimization opportunities, improving quality and cost-efficiency of the assembly process.
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Engineering Know-How
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Last Mile Management
Benefit from intuitive refill triggering, paperless instructions for picking and replenishment, shorter paths and full transparency.
Smart Tools
Smart tools and devices on your assembly line create a precise, harmonized network. Our solution integrates these seamlessly.