Procurest helps EV, aerospace, defense, and robotics teams hit cost targets, qualify suppliers, and build procurement organizations that survive the production ramp. Fifteen years of OEM sourcing experience, no slide-deck consultants.
Four services, each scoped to a measurable outcome. We work inside your BOM, your ERP, and your supplier base, and we leave behind models your team can run without us.
Bottom-up cost models for machined, cast, stamped, molded, PCBA, and battery components, built from cycle times and material indices.
Find, qualify, and ramp suppliers for direct material and CapEx. We run RFQs, site assessments, and PPAP readiness end to end.
Stand up or restructure a sourcing function: category structure, buyer levels, approval matrices, and the KPIs that keep cost-down real.
Preparation and live support for annual price reviews, LTAs, tooling settlements, and claims. We bring the leverage map and the walk-away number.
A fixed sequence so you always know what comes next. Most clients see the first should-cost gap analysis inside three weeks.
Spend cube, BOM walk, supplier performance review, and interviews with engineering and finance. Output: prioritized opportunity list.
Should-cost models and market benchmarks for the top opportunities. Output: quantified gap by part and supplier.
RFQs, supplier visits, and negotiations run with your buyers in the room. Output: signed savings and qualified alternates.
Models, playbooks, and KPIs handed to your team with training. Output: a function that keeps delivering after we leave.
The same insider knowledge, pointed at your career. A free 50-question GSM interview guide with scored model answers and pay bands, written by the hiring manager.
Short answers to the questions we hear most from operations leaders and candidates.
A bottom-up estimate of what a part should cost based on material, process, cycle time, labor, overhead, and margin. Buyers use it to anchor negotiations and spot quotes that are out of line with manufacturing reality.
Electric vehicles, aerospace and new space, defense technology, robotics, and other companies that build complex physical products at scale. The common thread is direct-material sourcing under tight cost and schedule pressure.
Operators, not analysts. Every engagement is led by someone who has carried a cost target through a vehicle program, and we price by outcome where the data allows it.
Yes. Procurestart, our career division, provides interview preparation, resume rewriting, and salary benchmarking for buyers, global supply managers, and sourcing leaders.
That is our most common starting point. We build the first commodity strategies, source the initial supply base, and help you hire the first buyers.
A 30-minute call is enough to tell whether there is a cost gap worth chasing. No deck, no retainer required to start.