Industries/Manufacturing/Sourcing Agent
Structured RFQs for plant buyers,from resin bids to capital quotes.
Buyers collect bids for fasteners, resins, and capital equipment in email and normalize MOQs, lead times, and tooling piece prices in spreadsheets. The Sourcing Agent drafts RFQs from a brief, invites qualified suppliers excluding blocked vendors, scores responses on weighted criteria, and runs negotiation rounds inside walk-away and warranty guardrails before leadership approves the award.
Scenarios in manufacturing
Document-level examples buyers in this industry run through Sourcing Agent.
Resin RFQ with index-linked pricing
Procurement requests Q2 resin volume with stated index formula. The agent publishes criteria on cost, lead time, and quality history fields you provide, compares index mechanics across bids, and documents round-two concessions before program directors approve.
Capital equipment quote normalization
Three OEMs return quotes with different warranty and install bundles. The agent normalizes total cost and lead time, scores warranty months as a weighted factor, and recommends an award with savings vs the estimated budget.
Second-source fastener after risk review
Supplier Risk links a backup RFQ to a sole-source exposure. The agent structures technical questions on PPAP references you store, excludes blocked suppliers, and logs negotiation rounds for audit.
What the agent checks
Core Sourcing Agent rules, phrased for manufacturing procurement.
- Weighted criteria re-normalized to 100% for each RFQ
- Blocked resin or logistics suppliers excluded from invites
- Total cost, lead time, warranty, Net terms, and risk in score
- Negotiation floor per supplier tier on direct materials
- Must-have warranty on production tooling bids
- Award logged with budget vs awarded total for the program
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
Can RFQs include PPAP or quality questionnaires?
You define technical fields; SQE approves supplier selection before commercial award.
Are supplier bids simulated in the demo?
Demo bids are deterministic from catalog and supplier profile; production connects to your portal or email intake.
Who clicks Award?
A category or program owner after reviewing the weighted matrix; the agent does not sign contracts.
Can we run parallel RFQs per plant?
Yes when site codes are in master data; pilots often start with one plant to prove scoring.