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Verify an Indian forging supplier before you commit

For OEM and tier-1 sourcing teams qualifying a new forging supplier in India.

Engagement type
Solo Pod
Experts
1 lead
Hours
~40
Duration
3 weeks

What the client needed

An OEM sourcing team needed a forging supplier in India audited — capability, capacity, quality systems — and its quoted cost benchmarked against what the process should cost, before awarding a multi-year contract.

The brief

The questions on the table

As the client wrote them, lightly shortened. Client and respondents are not named.

  1. Q1

    Can this supplier actually make the part, at this volume, to this quality?

  2. Q2

    Is the quote right — and if not, where is the gap?

  3. Q3

    What should the contract protect us against?

The hours

What the work involved

  1. 01

    Pre-audit review

    Drawings, volumes, the supplier’s capability statement and quote, with the questions to put on site.

  2. 02

    Site audit

    A one-day audit of equipment, process control, quality systems and capacity, with photographs and a scored checklist.

  3. 03

    Cost benchmark

    The quote broken down to material, conversion, tooling and margin against what the process should cost, with the gap explained.

  4. 04

    Report and call

    A written report and a review call with the sourcing team.

Deliverables

What the client received

  • A scored audit reportCapability, capacity, quality systems.
  • A cost benchmarkLine by line against the quote.
  • Contract pointsWhat to protect against.
  • A review callWith the sourcing team.

The terms

What an engagement like this costs

You buy hours in blocks and can change the expert at the end of any block, at no extra cost. Longer projects run in stages: pause after a block, pick up the next stage when you are ready.

Pricing in full →

Rate band
$65–$250 /hr
Senior specialists can be up to $500
Hour blocks
1 · 2 · 5 · 10 · 20 · 50 · custom
This engagement
Solo Pod · ~40 hours · 3 weeks

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Describe what you need

For example: “We need an Indian forging supplier audited and its quote benchmarked before we sign a three-year contract.”

We aim to come back with matched experts within 24 to 72 hours.