FREE sourcing support for qualified business buyers, with an eligible benefit of up to 3%. Eligibility applies to qualified business buyers and is confirmed after we review your product, quantity, destination, and sourcing requirements.
Collect drawing revision, file format, alloy, GD&T datums, heat-treat window, prototype quantity, production lot, EAU, inspection plan, destination, and Incoterm. A missing interstitial limit or coupon rule later becomes an exclusion, not a free add-on.
Closed-die versus open-die, hammer versus press, and whether the candidate even runs the alloy. A machining house with a brochure forging photo is not a process match for oem titanium medical forging service work.
Each plant receives the same revision. Quotes that change draft, stock, preform shape, or NDT without marking the change are treated as alternatives, not as the baseline bid.
Die, tryout, flash-land resink, piece, heat treat, NDT, packing, freight, and duties stay on separate lines so factory-gate and landed figures can be ranked. This desk does not publish a savings percentage.
Die steel class or insert strategy, expected flash-land wear on the stated lot size, heat-treat route, hardness method, whether an FAI coupon is cut from the same heat as production, sample lead, production cadence, and which costs sit outside the piece price. Blank lines are unanswered, not implied zeros.
Ocean or air freight, duties, rust preventive, export boxing, third-party NADCAP heat treat, and PPAP document prep often sit outside a factory wholesale number. Rank replies on the same Incoterm, destination, and inspection package rather than on ex-works piece price alone.
Scope must list forging or heat treat actually used on the part.
Needed when PPAP and control plans are contract requirements.
Ask whether special processes are internal or NADCAP subcontracted.
Plant registration and material declarations stay with the bidder.