Procurement-Hub

Solution for Procurement

Are You Struggling to Optimize Your Procurement Workflow?
Challenges:

  • Struggling with Make-or-Buy Decisions: Unsure whether to manufacture in-house or outsource due to lack of clear, integrated data?
  • Disjointed Procurement Data: Is your procurement process inefficient due to scattered data, making decision-making difficult?
  • Manual Work Overload: Spending too much time on manual analysis and calculations, hindering productivity?
  • Supplier Management Issues: Difficulty managing, comparing, and tracking supplier capabilities, pricing, and performance?
  • Unreliable Cost and Lead Time Estimates: Finding it hard to obtain accurate cost and lead time data, leading to missed targets?
  • Lack of Environmental Oversight: Lacking the tools to assess and reduce the environmental impact of your procurement choices?

Streamline Your Procurement with 3D Spark’s Data-Driven Solution
Our Solution:

  • Smarter Make-or-Buy Decisions: Make informed decisions on whether to manufacture in-house or outsource using data-driven insights.
  • Automation of Manual Tasks: Automate manual analysis, calculations, and supplier tracking, freeing up your team’s time for higher-value tasks.
  • Accurate Cost & Lead Time Estimates: Generate reliable, real-time estimates for cost and lead time to improve planning and execution.
  • Sustainable Procurement: Gain integrated tools to assess and reduce the environmental impact of your procurement activities, helping you meet sustainability goals.

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Scale with Data-Driven Procurement

Procurement teams frequently face make-or-buy decisions, balancing the intricacies of cost, efficiency, and a vast supplier network. Traditional approaches often lead to a cumbersome process of issuing and managing numerous RFQs, resulting in inefficiencies and a lack of clear decision-making pathways.

3D Spark directly addresses these challenges by providing immediate insights into production and costing, enabling teams to swiftly determine the advantages of in-house manufacturing versus outsourcing. The platform's Supplier Panel further streamlines the procurement process by offering detailed visibility into suppliers' capabilities and pricing, facilitating more informed and strategic sourcing decisions.

By integrating production simulations and market data, 3D Spark helps reduce unnecessary RFQs, guiding procurement towards more precise and cost-effective strategies.

Solution for your Procurement Problems

Why Choose 3D Spark for Procurement?
Efficient Make-or-Buy Decisions

Leverage instant insights into production costs, lead times, and sustainability to make smarter, quicker in-house production or outsourcing decisions.

Instant In-house Manufacturability Analysis

Mirror your actual production environment within 3D Spark to accurately assess if a design will successfully and efficiently translate into manufactured parts.

Instant Costing and Sustainability Analysis

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the cost-effectiveness and environmental impact of your designs

Technology Benchmarking

Compare manufacturing technologies in an instant to choose the most efficient and sustainable options according to your business strategy.
Simplify Procurement Process

Our platform allows you to send targeted RFQs internally or externally, eliminating the need for unnecessary RFQ transfers. With automated processes and centralized data of your qualified suppliers, procurement becomes more efficient and less time-consuming.

Supplier Panel

Use the Supplier Panel to streamline your RFQ process. Automatically send targeted RFQs to pre-qualified suppliers based on estimated pricing, technology capabilities, and other procurement criteria.

Part Request Portal (PRP)

Streamline your internal procurement process with our Part Request Portal (PRP). Designed for easy use, this tool allows employees across different hubs or departments to send targeted request for parts or quotes internally.
Proactive Order Management

With order tracking from the Order Status Pipeline, anticipate and resolve potential delays, keeping procurement on schedule.

Order Status Pipeline

Maintain full visibility and control throughout the order lifecycle. Stay informed of order progress to manage expectations and deadlines proactively.

ERP Integration

Seamlessly integrate with your ERP system for streamlined operations and data consistency.

Results by our customer

40%
Reduction in
purchased prices
95%
Lesser RFQs
needed
15M+ €
Saved in
costs

Don’t just take our word for it

Hear from some of our amazing customers.

“My mission is to ease the adoption of 3D printing at Alstom, and that's exactly what 3D Spark is helping us to do. We plan to triple the number of parts analyzed by the end of 2023, targeting cost savings of more than €5 million.”

Aurelien Fussel
3D Printing Program Manager at Alstom

The 3D Spark platform drastically reduces time and effort needed by my team to analyze 3D CADs and 2D drawings from daily Requests for Quotations (RFQs) regarding technical feasibility and precise, instant costing.

Dr.-Ing. Andreas Baum
CEO at MetShape

See How Customers Use 3D Spark

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FAQs

Everything you need to know about our sales tool. Can’t find the answer you’re looking for? Please feel free to get in touch with us.
What is 3D Spark?
3D Spark is a B2B Manufacturing & Procurement Platform which helps you to identify the cheapest, quickest and most sustainable way to manufacture or buy components, with current focus on industrial Additive Manufacturing.
How does 3D Spark facilitate faster make-or-buy decisions?
3D Spark provides immediate access to detailed in-house production simulations and cost analyses, allowing procurement teams to quickly determine the most cost-efficient and sustainable routes, whether in-house or outsource.
Does 3D Spark support complex assembly analysis?
Yes, our platform can disassemble and analyze complex assemblies, providing detailed insights for each component as well as the assembly as a whole, thus identifying cost-saving opportunities at every level.
Can 3D Spark integrate with our existing CAD tools?
Absolutely. 3D Spark is designed to work seamlessly with a variety of CAD formats, offering easy integration with your existing tools and streamlining your design to production workflow.

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