The part that only one supplier makes

Single-source exposure is usually discovered when the supplier stops answering. Finding it in the contract record first is an exercise in reading paperwork nobody has opened in years.

The situation

Somewhere in your supply base is a component with exactly one qualified source, fitted to something that matters, and nothing in your current systems flags it as a risk until the supplier exits the market or raises the price fivefold.

The evidence that it is single sourced is not in a database field. It is spread across the supplier register, the qualification records, the tender schedules that awarded the work, and the contract clauses that may or may not require a second approved source to be maintained.

Why it is hard

The register and the contract can disagree

A register may show sole-source while a contract clause explicitly requires a second approved source to be maintained. That contradiction is the finding, and it only appears if you read both.

Qualification is not the same as availability

A second source that was qualified in 2011 and has not produced since is not a second source. Distinguishing them means reading qualification dates against production history.

The exposure is a graph, not a list

A part is single sourced, that part is fitted to a subassembly, that subassembly is on three platforms. The risk only becomes legible once those relationships are resolved.

How we approach it

Agentix reads the supplier register, qualification records, tender schedules and contracts as one estate, resolves part and supplier identities across them, and answers the exposure question with the clause or row behind each claim.

Where a contract requires a second approved source that the register does not reflect, that is reported as a contradiction with both documents cited, rather than as a confidence score.

What changes

Single-source exposure found in the record rather than at the point of failure
Contract obligations about second sources checked against what the register actually shows
Part, subassembly and platform relationships resolved so exposure is traceable upward
Every finding cites the clause, row or certificate it came from

Is this your problem too?

Bring the version of it you actually have. We will tell you what it would take, including when the answer is that it is not worth doing.

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