Procurement Explore — single-sourced custom fabrication, and where an alternative is
Custom fabrication is the constraint and is largely bought from one supplier. This screen walks the four steps in the order a buyer can act in: where to start, which parts are the same thing to make, who else already makes one, and what a price difference is actually caused by.
Based on your own purchasing record: the received BOMs, the buyer's planned orders and the SCM exception feed.
Purchased parts
813
1292 purchased BOM lines · 764 with a price
Built to print
455
the BOM names a TIC drawing
Single-sourced
502
311 more have no purchase record at all
Suppliers on record
68
Comparable groups
45
two or more part numbers that are the same thing to make
Part and supplier profiles were not received, so they are GENERATED and labelled DEMO: 813 part profiles (material, weight, size, tolerance, finish, lot, tooling, inspection), 301 supplier capability profiles (processes, envelope, tonnage, certifications, region, load, quoted lead time, tier-2 sources) and 1850 quote responses. They are anchored on what is real — only part numbers from the received BOMs, only company names from the received purchase records, and each supplier's processes derived from the categories that supplier actually supplies. Prices on record, suppliers, lead times and SCM exceptions are received data.
Spend, how concentrated the supply is, and how hard the category is to move. Start where all three are high: large spend, one supplier, and nothing structural stopping a second one. Where it cannot be moved, the answer is a contract, stock or a continuity plan — not a second supplier. Click a row to take that category into step 2.
Where to startone dot per category · size = spend · click a dot
Switching conditions met (of 4)
grey = not assessable (over half the category has no purchase record)
Who holds the spendred = holds parts nobody else supplies
| Category | Spend | Parts | Built to print | Suppliers | Top supplier | HHI | Sole-sourced | Long lead | SCM exceptions | Switching conditions met (of 4) | Groups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instrument transformer (CT/CPT) | $102,835 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 69% | 0.54 | 7 | 9 | 10 | CLS22/4 Not assessable | – |
| Sheet metal fabrication DEMO | $23,602 | 240 | 193 | 17 | 56% | 0.35 | 210 | 48 | 243 | CLS23/4 | 25 |
| Semiconductor (diode / rectifier) | $13,621 | 8 | – | 3 | 100% | 1.00 | 5 | 7 | 10 | CLS22/4 | – |
| Fuse | $11,610 | 15 | – | 2 | 100% | 1.00 | 8 | 9 | 9 | CLS22/4 | – |
| Printed wiring board | $8,286 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 58% | 0.49 | 12 | 17 | 12 | CLS21/4 | – |
| Protection relay | $7,938 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | CLS22/4 Not assessable | – |
| Filter (harmonic / ferrite) | $7,415 | 2 | – | 1 | 100% | 1.00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | CLS21/4 | – |
| Other (06) | $6,795 | 2 | – | 1 | 100% | 1.00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | CLS21/4 | – |
| Capacitor | $6,597 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 97% | 0.94 | 2 | 5 | 3 | CLS22/4 Not assessable | – |
| Bus bar DEMO | $4,381 | 42 | 39 | 6 | 39% | 0.27 | 34 | 30 | 37 | CLS21/4 | 2 |
| Insulating fabrication (Glastic) DEMO | $3,923 | 52 | 51 | 5 | 50% | 0.38 | 48 | 7 | 52 | CLS23/4 | 5 |
| Heatsink / heater | $3,655 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 100% | 1.00 | 1 | 3 | 4 | CLS20/4 Not assessable | – |
| Fan / filter | $3,318 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 86% | 0.75 | 4 | 2 | 6 | CLS22/4 | – |
| Steel sheet stock | $2,702 | 28 | 11 | 2 | 95% | 0.90 | 5 | 2 | 4 | CLS23/4 Not assessable | – |
| Circuit breaker | $2,524 | 10 | – | 2 | 97% | 0.94 | 9 | 4 | 9 | CLS22/4 | – |
| Option kit | $2,314 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | CLS21/4 Not assessable | – |
| Connector / wiring harness DEMO | $2,180 | 78 | 52 | 5 | 45% | 0.37 | 16 | 28 | 15 | CLS21/4 Not assessable | 1 |
| Copper stock | $1,932 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 88% | 0.79 | 2 | – | 2 | CLS23/4 Not assessable | – |
| Other (07) | $1,529 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | CLS20/4 Not assessable | – |
| Other (04) | $1,105 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | CLS22/4 Not assessable | – |
| Resistor | $1,086 | 24 | – | 3 | 94% | 0.88 | 3 | 17 | 5 | CLS22/4 Not assessable | – |
| Insulator | $1,069 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 38% | 0.28 | 10 | 4 | 30 | CLS23/4 | – |
| Hardware / fasteners DEMO | $976 | 52 | 15 | 15 | 22% | 0.14 | 39 | 33 | 59 | CLS22/4 | 3 |
| Label / nameplate DEMO | $685 | 58 | 44 | 8 | 35% | 0.26 | 39 | 9 | 47 | CLS23/4 | 5 |