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Start at the Dashboard
Part Sourcing lives inside Analytics, not Procurement. Click Analytics in the top nav.
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Part Sourcing Dashboard sits at the bottom
Analytics opens on Trend Analytics, Top 5 Suppliers, Supplier KPI, and Supplier Performance. Part Sourcing Dashboard is the last section on the page, scroll all the way down to reach it. It starts empty, no part chosen yet.
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Every real part in the system is in this list
The dropdown lists actual part numbers pulled straight from the catalog, the same parts used across Purchase Order, RFQ, and Order Insight. Only 10 parts have sourcing data in this environment.
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Not every part has a choice
010-003070F835C has only ever been quoted by BlueRock Metals, $85.00. It's tagged Cheapest by default, there's nothing to compare it against yet. This is what a thin sourcing history looks like: the table works, but the labels don't mean much with just one row.
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BRG-2045-A: three real suppliers, three real prices
Switch parts and the picture changes completely. The same bearing costs $10.15 from Northstar Precision Supply, $10.75 from Apex Industrial Components, or $15.55 from Summit Fastener Group, nearly 35% apart for identical parts. This is the actual comparison this dashboard exists for.
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Price isn't the whole story
Arrived Qty, Passed Qty, and Failed Qty sit right next to the price for a reason: a cheaper supplier who ships less or fails inspection isn't actually cheaper. Northstar shows 85 units arrived here; Summit Fastener Group's line, at the highest price, doesn't even show an Arrived Qty yet, worth checking before assuming it's the safe choice.
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Cost Flag is the fast read, Rating isn't populated yet
Cost Flag does the ranking automatically, Cheapest, Average, Most Expensive, so there's no mental math needed. Rating sits right next to it but reads 0% across every part in this environment; it's a real column, just not fed with data here yet, worth checking once live ratings start flowing in.
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DRV-2123-X: same structure, different numbers
A second part, a different price spread ($18.25 to $29.05), the same three-supplier shape. This isn't a one-off view for a single part, it's a repeatable comparison for anything in the dropdown.
