Project spares package: seven brands on one purchase order
Requirement
The customer was building the electrical package for an overseas production line. The BOM covered Siemens PLC modules, ABB drives, Schneider contactors, Omron sensors, Danfoss temperature controls, plus Siemens PROFINET cables and connectors — over 200 line items in total.
Challenge
Placing separate orders by brand would have meant 5–7 purchase orders, multiple domestic freight charges and multiple sets of export documents, with lead times that were hard to align. Some older models were discontinued and needed alternatives.
What we did
We split the list by project milestone, sourced each line and flagged it as active, obsolete or superseded. For obsolete items we supplied parameter comparisons for the customer's engineers to approve. Shipments were consolidated, with one combined customs declaration and one export document set.
One purchase order, one consolidation, one shipment. The customer dealt with a single point of contact, and project milestones were not held up by parts.
