Product life cycle costing

It is an approach used to give a long term picture of product line profitability feedback on the effectiveness of life cycle planning and cost data to make clear the economic impact of alternatives chosen in the design engineering phase etc. it is also considered as a way to enhance the control of manufacturing costs. The thrust of product life cycle costing is on the distribution of costs among it is important to track and measure costing is on the distribution of costs among categories changes over the life of the product as dose the potential profitability of a product. Hence it is significant to track and measure costs during each stage of a product's life cycle.