A global automotive supplier needed to understand the true cost structure behind a group of electrical contact components — before entering supplier negotiations in a market with volatile silver and copper prices.
Starting from 45 CAD files, COVALYZE PartIQ extracted and validated 132 production-relevant contact variants. COVALYZE Analytics then quantified the commercial impact across a USD 12M+ procurement volume, revealing that over 55% of direct manufacturing cost was material-driven.
The result was a fact-based foundation for supplier negotiations and strategic sourcing decisions — built entirely from the customer’s own engineering data.
