Dassault Systèmes launched the PartSupply catalog of sourceable components on the 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace to make it easy for you to find the part you need, download the file to ensure that the part or product meets your specifications, then source it from companies near you.

Recent global disruptions have made it clear that one delayed component or part can have a snowball effect, causing expensive slowdowns that decrease customer confidence.

To help you gain efficiencies, digital B2B marketplaces are becoming more pervasive and expanding to industry marketplaces for all types of industrial goods and services. They make it simple for businesses of all sizes to comparison shop and find the right product or service without a middle man, thus contributing to their business goals.

For manufacturers and product developers, PartSupply represents a savings of tens of millions of hours of design and engineering time for parts that are already available or just need a few tweaks. It eliminates the tremendous upstream and downstream costs associated with the unnecessary development and introduction of new parts.

57 Million Components From 1,000 Suppliers

PartSupply is the most comprehensive, artificial-intelligence driven catalog of sourceable components and their 3D files. Available free-of-charge for companies of all sizes, it features more than 1,000 on-demand providers from around the world that collectively offer a one-stop shop of tens of millions of qualified component configurations and their digital files.

Many parts are complex, but others are simple and inexpensive. Although standard parts make up only 20% of the product developers’ purchasing volume, they make up 80% of procurement costs. In order to optimize the purchasing process, decrease risks and costs, and keep your development on schedule, easy access to standard parts available from reliable external suppliers is critical.

“Finding parts is painful because there are so many vendors spread out throughout the world. A lot of the vendors, even though it’s a similar part, might use different terminology for the parts…When I first saw Marketplace PartSupply, I was pretty excited. I saw all of these opportunities for the vendors to be in one place, for very similar parts to be in one place.”

–  Al Zullo, Owner, ALZCO LLC

Parts On Demand Catalog

PartSupply is where you’ll find new manufacturing suppliers for the parts you need. You can search for a part, evaluate its technical characteristics, performance, and quality; download the 3D file; and quickly secure vendors nearby who are able to deliver.

• Step 1: Quickly search for the part you need. Filter and refine your results by component categories or by combining the power of semantic search and 3D shape similarity.
• Step 2: Conduct a side-by-side comparison of similar configurations and analyze their detailed technical characteristics and supplier locations to decide which best fits your needs.
• Step 3: Download the 3D model (from a web widget for non-CAD users) into your design environment for fast validation of its configuration.
• Step 4: Once you’ve found the right part, evaluate supplier locations and contact the supplier directly to negotiate pricing and place your order.

Today’s market uncertainties make a dependable supply chain more vital than ever. PartSupply gives you the peace of mind that you’re making an informed decision about whether or not you need to design your own parts from scratch, alter an existing part file, or buy existing parts readily available from suppliers.

Other benefits include:

• Reduce risks by expanding your supply chain options with reliable suppliers
• Improve supply chain performance
• Nurture valuable supplier partnerships
• Decrease transportation costs and time-to-market
• Gain economies of scale
• Empower procurement professionals to work more closely with engineering
• Minimize time spent searching for, selecting and testing parts from external catalogs
• Standardize parts across the extended enterprise
• Narrow down choices of your referenced standard parts
• Ensure quality compliance with proven parts
• Innovate by exploring what the market is offering while ensuring the required part will meet your needs
• Enhance sustainability

“A lot of times I get what I need, but I have to scatter across five different websites to find the part or find somebody to make it…Time is valuable to me. This is going to make my workflow seamless. This is going to give me an opportunity to finish projects sooner… ”

– Edson Gebo, Founder, Digital Detail & Design

PartSupply Enterprise

PartSupply Enterprise allows companies to nurture their own enterprise ecosystem, listing providers qualified by Dassault Systèmes, those selected by the enterprise, and in-house standard parts, thus preventing part duplicates and proliferation.

All 3DEXPERIENCE Marketplace services are accessible directly from SOLIDWORKS, CATIA V5, and 3DEXPERIENCE platform apps.

Offer Your Parts on PartSupply

PartSupply Community is a worldwide ecosystem of providers accessible to anyone, qualified and nurtured by Dassault Systèmes. You can join this community and offer your parts and services.

On PartSupply, you can reach enterprise customers and other engineers globally, you can promote your industrial know-how and expertise, you can analyze how your components are used by the PartSupply community and you can develop your business with dedicated dashboards and analytics.

For part manufacturers and distributors, PartSupply represents a new level of access to a large and highly qualified new customer base, with 85% of downloaded products resulting in a purchase. It also gives suppliers important, data-driven visibility into customer needs and preferences.

Learn more about PartSupply.