Chapman Smith acts as an extension of your purchasing team. Since 1997, we've helped OEM manufacturers source aluminum extrusions, steel tubing and pipe, castings, flat rolled steel and fabricated components, and we manage the suppliers, quality and delivery behind them. Most companies don't come to us because of their industry. They come because of their situation. Find yours 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.
A procurement partner is an outside company that handles sourcing, supplier management, quality and delivery for parts a manufacturer buys. Chapman Smith works as an extension of an OEM's purchasing team, giving buyers one point of contact instead of many suppliers.
A distributor sells from inventory and a broker connects buyers and sellers. Chapman Smith takes responsibility for the part: we source materials, coordinate every manufacturing operation, manage the suppliers, and stand behind quality and delivery.
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 recurring production.
No. We don't run our own production floor. We coordinate a nationwide network of qualified suppliers and manufacturing partners, which lets us match each part to the right process instead of the equipment we happen to own.
Our main materials are aluminum extrusions, steel tubing and pipe, castings and flat rolled steel. We coordinate laser cutting, bending and forming, tube rolling, punching, drilling, welding and powder coating to deliver finished components.
Chapman Smith Corporation is based in Warsaw, Indiana, and has supplied OEM manufacturers since 1997.
Send us a part, a drawing or a problem through our contact page. We'll review it and recommend a sourcing approach.
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