SUPPLYFRAME NPIReinventing new
product introduction
Supplyframe NPI is the first solution to infuse the new product introduction processes in electronic manufacturing with supply market intelligence.
By surfacing actionable insights to product and sourcing teams at the point of design, Supplyframe NPI powers design-driven innovation while optimizing for costs and mitigating the risk for downstream supply disruptions.
CAPABILITIESA more resilient
product lifecycle,
from the beginning
Supplyframe NPI empowers intelligent collaboration throughout the design process, providing design engineers and new product introduction managers with intelligent part recommendations, collaborative BOM validation, and powerful risk mitigation features that accelerate smart sourcing and manufacturing.
Dynamic BOM
Transforms BOMs into dynamic living documents, which are continuously updated with new pricing, lead time and risk insights
Integrated intelligence
Integrates component pricing and risk intelligence from the world's largest library of electronic parts and parametric data
Cost vs. risk analysis
Optimizes lifecycle margin by providing real time market costs balanced against lower risk options
Identify alternates
Supports easy identification of alternate parts and suppliers to enhance BOM resiliency
Cross-functional decisions
Enables repeatable, cross-functional stage gate reviews and informed trade-off decisions
Full audit trail
Provides access to BOM revision history with full audit trail and context from cross-functional decision making
Transformational
impact across every
new product lifecycle
By assuring the resiliency of a new product BOM from the beginning of the program lifecycle,
Supplyframe NPI delivers transformational downstream benefits.
SUPPLYFRAME DIRECTSOURCETransforming strategic
sourcing for direct
materials
Supplyframe DirectSource enables continuous optimization of direct materials sourcing with breakthrough Design-to-Source Intelligence.
Supplyframe DirectSource is the first AI-based solution that enables the continuous optimization of direct materials sourcing by surfacing real-time actionable intelligence, from market analysis through sourcing event execution.
CAPABILITIESBringing resiliency
to direct materials
spend
Supplyframe DirectSource empowers you to make faster, more informed sourcing and purchasing decisions across commodities and categories, and to more rapidly execute successful sourcing events that ensure supply continuity and enhance overall lifecycle margins.
Powered by intelligence
Delivers integrated supply intelligence across over a billion component parts, 20,000 suppliers, key geographies and commodity groups, including intent insights from 10 million engineering and sourcing professionals
Always sensing opportunity
Continuously evaluates DSI Platform intelligence to identify opportunities for cost savings and risk mitigation, across parts, commodities, and other categories that span multiple BOMs and product lines
Recommending sourcing events
Automatically identifies and recommends opportunities for new sourcing events, based on changing market variables, historical activity, and potential negotiation levers
Integrated RFx cycles
Empowers sourcing teams to seamlessly initiate and execute new RFx cycles directly within the application, and to manage the quote-bid-award process across participating suppliers
Full audit trail
For every sourcing event, provides a comprehensive summary of supplier interactions, negotiations, and award activity, which can be leveraged in future supplier engagement
Cross-functional decisions
Enables every sourcing decision to be weighed and validated across functional teams, product lines, and categories of direct materials spend
Transformational
impact across BOMs,
product portfolios, and
commodity categories
By infusing the strategic sourcing of direct materials with supply intelligence and collaborative, cross-functional workflows, DirectSource empowers you to rapidly respond to market variables, optimize for cost, and assure supply continuity and enhanced margins.
