AI SOURCING FOR MANUFACTURING PROCUREMENT TEAMS
Procurable reads your drawings, builds the should-cost, finds the parts you already buy cheaper, and runs the RFQ or the negotiation. Weeks of sourcing work, done in hours.
Drawing in, should-cost out. RFQ packages built from the BOM. Quotes read straight from supplier email.
Sourcing a new BOM means matching drawings to lines by hand, grouping them, chasing NDAs, and re-keying quotes. Weeks go by before the first PO.
A should-cost model takes a dedicated team two weeks per part. By the time it is ready, the negotiation has moved on.
The same bracket gets bought at three plants from three suppliers at three prices. The only proof is in the geometry, buried in thousands of drawings.
Follow BRK-2041 from its first drawing to its third price renewal. Ingest, Find, Act. The same three steps run both times.
Engineering sends a BOM and a zip of drawings. Procurable matches each drawing to its BOM line, so BRK-2041 is linked to its drawing without anyone renaming files.
Procurable flags DFM opportunities on the drawing, sets a should-cost baseline before any supplier is contacted, and checks for similar parts already bought elsewhere in the company.
BRK-2041 is grouped into an RFQ package with the other sheet-metal parts and sent to existing and new suppliers, NDA workflow included.
Suppliers reply by email. Procurable reads the quotes into a side-by-side comparison, and the part is awarded.
2024Steel fell by a third. The renewal went up anyway.
2025A second plant started buying a near-identical bracket from another supplier.
2026Steel came back up. The supplier asked for 12% more.
Nobody looked.
PO history and current drawings flow in on a recurring basis. Procurable keeps similarity scores and index tracking current.
Index Watch shows BRK-2041's price went up through a year when steel fell by a third, and never came back. Similarity shows near-identical brackets at other plants at different prices. Should-cost gives the target.
Negotiate with the incumbent using the cost model as the target, or run a two-click market test to existing and new suppliers.
Suppliers reply by email. Procurable parses the quotes into the comparison.
Our cost model puts BRK-2041 at $14.20 at today’s steel index: material $6.85, laser cut $3.10, bending $1.95, overhead and margin $2.30. When hot-rolled steel fell 34% in 2024, our price went up to $15.40, and to $16.10 in 2025. The recovery in steel is already in the $14.20. Please send a revised quote by October 28.
Every part enters through NPI. Every part eventually drifts. Procurable runs the same three steps both times, with the team you already have.
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"The platform's should-cost modeling capabilities have enabled us to quickly identify items and suppliers with substantial savings opportunities."
An LLM extracts features from the drawing. The cost model prices them against public material and labor indexes. Every number traces back to its index reference.
Procurable drafts every supplier email. It is sent only after the buyer approves it.
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