Same parts at every site. Different suppliers. Different prices. SourceOptima classifies every component by its real manufacturing requirements, then ranks the cost spreads by impact. No new suppliers to qualify. No org change. Just your data, finally connected.
The result: redundant suppliers, unexploited volume leverage, and no way to answer "who in our supply base can actually make this?"
A 5-axis titanium component bought in Oregon at $420. A near-identical part bought in Czechia at $1,260. Different suppliers. No one knows.
Self-reported capability sheets say one thing. Delivery records tell another. Suppliers who broker work they can't fulfill in-house are a quality and IP risk.
M&A leaves you with PLM systems that don't talk, part numbers that overlap, and category lines drawn by who acquired whom — not by what gets made.
Purchase history tells you what you bought. Drawings tell you what you actually needed. The combination is where the leverage lives.
SourceOptima aggregates structured part profiles into a hierarchical classification: process > complexity > size > material > tolerance band. Each leaf becomes a sourcing category — independent of who designed the part or which org bought it.
SourceOptima cross-references what each supplier claims they can do against what they've actually delivered. Suppliers whose stated capabilities exceed delivery history get flagged — a strong signal that they outsource orders they can't fulfill in-house.
Anonymized — global manufacturer, mechanical / machined engineered components category.
Multi-hundred-GB drawing repository · tens of thousands of part folders. No human reviewed any of it. The platform did.
Cross-referenced against ERP line items. ~50% matched on first pass; coverage grows as namespace gaps close.
An entire site's engineering drawings had zero procurement records anywhere in the company. Hundreds of unique part numbers, invisible without cross-reference.
Hundreds of missing items for the drawings team to locate. Dozens of orphan parts for the procurement SME to add. One workbook per person, ranked by impact.
The first round of value comes from data your team already exports every month — no IT project, no organizational restructuring, no new suppliers to qualify. ERP, PLM, and supplier-system integrations are a path to deeper value once the platform is producing, but they're never a prerequisite to getting started.
Where integrations unlock more value (later, on your timeline):
What made it possible: AI-powered drawing extraction at scale. No human reviewed 31,000 folders — the platform did. The subject-matter experts only touched the exceptions.— Reference engagement, Phase 1 retrospective