Industries/Automotive/Sourcing Agent
Raw material RFQs,tooling and piece price.
Buyers collect quotes by email and normalize tooling and piece price manually. The Sourcing Agent structures RFQs, scores bids on cost, capacity, and quality history fields you provide, documents negotiation rounds, and presents awards program directors approve including sole-source PPAP exceptions.
Scenarios in automotive
Document-level examples buyers in this industry run through Sourcing Agent.
Raw material RFQ with index mechanics
Index assumptions normalized before commercial scoring.
Component RFQ with tooling breakdown
Tooling amortization separated from piece price in comparisons.
Backup source after risk alert
Documented rationale for alternate sourcing linked to risk.
What the agent checks
Core Sourcing Agent rules, phrased for automotive procurement.
- Weights sum to 100%
- Blocked suppliers excluded
- Tooling and piece price normalized
- Quality history fields scored
- Negotiation guardrails
- Award logged vs program budget
How it works
Same pipeline as the live Sourcing Agent module.
- 1
Parse the brief
Extract quantity, category, delivery window, and unit from plain language and estimate budget from catalog or historical pricing.
- 2
Publish the RFQ
Set evaluation criteria with weights that sum to 100%, invite qualified suppliers, and exclude blocked vendors.
- 3
Collect and score bids
Normalize cost, lead time, warranty, payment terms, and supplier risk into a weighted matrix and rank respondents.
- 4
Negotiate in rounds
Run guardrailed rounds — target price, walk-away, must-have warranty — with deterministic concession logic; Stellitron Intelligence phrases the messages.
- 5
Recommend award
Present the winning supplier, unit economics, and savings vs budget; award updates the event and logs impact.
Questions buyers ask
PPAP exceptions?
Documented when sole-source path used; SQE approves.
Who awards?
Program directors per policy.
Simulated bids?
Demo deterministic.
ECN required?
Engineering boards approve design-linked awards.