Chapman Smith is an OEM sourcing partner. We provide outsourced purchasing and procurement as an extension of your purchasing team, managing supplier selection, quality and delivery. Since 1997, we've helped manufacturers source aluminum extrusions, steel tubing and pipe, castings, flat rolled steel and fabricated components. The companies we work best with are usually in one of the six situations below.
Purchased materials and components are often the fastest lever for margin improvement in a manufacturing portfolio company. We review what a company buys, identify savings, and then do the work to make them real: sourcing, qualifying and transitioning suppliers alongside the purchasing and operations team.
Order size isn't the test. If a part matters to your product and has a future, we're glad to start where you are. We choose suppliers and processes with production in mind from the first order, so when your volume grows you don't have to re-source everything.
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Tell us about your productWhen revenue grows faster than purchasing headcount, buyers end up firefighting instead of planning. We add sourcing capacity without adding headcount: finding and qualifying suppliers, setting up alternate sources, and keeping parts arriving on schedule.
Many OEMs build a finished product but buy custom parts from a long list of extruders, tube suppliers, foundries, fabricators and coaters. We become one point of contact for those parts and coordinate every operation, from laser cutting and forming to welding and powder coating, into one finished component.
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Send us a part to quoteReshoring production, opening a new plant, replacing an incumbent supplier or integrating an acquisition all put pressure on purchasing at once. We source, qualify and transition suppliers so production keeps running through the change.
Even strong procurement departments have a long tail of small vendors, spot buys and hard-to-find parts that take time out of proportion to their value. We take that work off the team's plate so buyers can focus on strategic categories.
Straight answers about how we work with OEM purchasing teams.
Send Us Something to QuoteOutsourced purchasing means an outside partner handles sourcing, supplier management, quality and delivery for parts a manufacturer buys. Chapman Smith works as an extension of your purchasing team, giving your buyers one point of contact instead of many suppliers.
A distributor sells from inventory and a broker connects buyers and sellers. We take responsibility for the finished part: supplier selection, coordinating every manufacturing operation, freight between shops, first article and quality, and stocking, all on one PO.
Yes. We stock parts and material at our own warehouse against your forecast and ship on a release schedule that matches your production. You get volume pricing without carrying the inventory yourself.
Because we buy for several OEMs, our combined volume gives us buying leverage with mills and manufacturers that a single purchasing team often can't get on its own. We also consolidate spend across fewer suppliers, qualify alternate sources before you need them, and review whether a different grade, gauge or form does the same job for less.
Yes. Our sales team works with your engineers to keep manufacturability and function at the forefront, and we run our own PPAP first so your PPAP sees an already-screened part.
No. Order size isn't the test. If a part matters to your product and has a future, we're glad to start where you are and grow with you into production.
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