Procurement Solutions for Manufacturing

Manufacturing Procurement Challenges

Long lead times and tier 2 risk

Deep, multi tier supply chains and 4 to 40+ week lead times on critical components make production plans fragile. Most disruptions hit at sub tier level, not the immediate supplier, so procurement often reacts late instead of planning early.

BOM complexity and engineering silos

Thousands of parts, frequent engineering changes, and variant rich products stretch buyers thin. When procurement is involved late in development, teams scramble to source long lead items or redesign around missing parts.

Fragmented systems and maverick spend

Multiple ERPs, PLM tools, spreadsheets, and plant specific workarounds make it hard to see total spend. Up to 20 to 30 percent can fall outside controlled processes, which blocks volume leverage and standard terms.

Compliance, ESG and quality pressure

CSRD, CBAM, conflict minerals, and customer specific quality requirements demand traceable supplier data and stable OTIF and PPM performance. Collecting certificates, ESG data, and audit evidence across all suppliers is still largely manual.

How Mercanis Enhances Procurement in the Manufacturing Sector

Streamlined intake across plants and functions

Give every plant, engineering team, and requester one guided entry point for procurement. Mercanis turns vague emails into complete, validated requests that flow into the right workflow automatically, so buyers spend less time chasing specs and more time comparing suppliers.

Streamlined Intake for R&D and Procurement Collaboration

Unified Supplier Database with Plant-Level Visibility

Unified supplier and BOM level visibility

Connect suppliers, plants, and categories in one shared database. Mercanis tracks certifications, plant specific conditions, performance, and risk so commodity managers can see which suppliers support which assemblies, where dual sourcing is needed, and which contracts are expiring.

Intelligent sourcing and cost control for direct and indirect spend

Standardize RFQs, compare quotes side by side, and capture should cost insights for key components. Mercanis helps teams reduce RFx cycle times, improve purchase price variance, and bring tail and MRO categories under the same disciplined process as direct materials.

Direct Sourcing Optimization with Article Mapping & History Tracking

Results & Impact

72%

Faster RFQ and sourcing cycle times by standardizing BOM-driven requests and automating multi-plant approvals.

81%

Increase in sourcing throughput by digitizing supplier data, streamlining quote comparison, and enabling structured competitive events.

66%

Reduction in supplier-related production risks through unified performance tracking, certificate management, and real-time alerts.

Testimonials

What Our Customers Say About Us

The simplicity of Mercanis has enabled us to integrate our stakeholders into the tendering process by allowing them to use the platform as a self-service solution for smaller tendering projects and to steer the procurement function in a more strategic direction without the tool becoming less complex for our category managers.”

Sven Novak

Head of Indirect Procurement, Amer Sports

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Thanks to Mercanis, we have significantly fewer manual tasks and greater transparency across our supplier base. This saves us time and now our team can focus more on strategic tasks."

Uwe Krepelin

Head of Procurement, GASAG

38%

Time saving

We are very satisfied [...]. For us, as central procurement, it was essential to have a central tool that supports all stakeholders – including controlling and the commercial end result."

Marius Falk

Head of Procurement, Schill + Seilacher "Struktol"

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Mercanis is the competent and flexible partner we want for the digitalisation of our procurement processes. [...] we were able to successfully automate our procurement processes, SRM and administrative tasks such as internal supplier evaluation, successfully automated."