01 · Define
Tell us what production needs.
- Search catalog
- Request component
- Upload BOM
BIFROST operating model
From requirement
to confirmed supply.
BIFROST structures sourcing, commercial terms, inventory, documentation and execution through one procurement workflow.
02 · Source
BIFROST structures supply.
- Manufacturers
- Availability
- Alternatives
- Lead time
- Logistics
Availability states in the catalog
- Availability: In stock
- Availability: Limited stock
- Availability: Inbound
- Availability: Factory available
- Availability: On request
Each listed product carries one of these states with its lead time and MOQ. Unlisted parts are sourced on request across the manufacturing network.
03 · Confirm
Receive structured commercial terms.
- Quantity
- Price
- Currency
- Incoterm + named place
- Lead time
- Payment terms
- Validity
- Documents
What a quotation contains
- Quantity
- Confirmed quantity per line
- Price & currency
- Unit and line price in the quotation currency
- Incoterm + named place
- Delivery basis and where it applies
- Lead time
- Confirmed lead time
- Payment terms
- Payment schedule
- Validity
- Date the terms are valid until
- Documents
- Documents supplied with the order
04 · Execute
Procurement and supply execution.
- Production
- Inventory allocation
- QC
- Consolidation
- Regional logistics
Order stages
- Confirmed
- In procurement
- In production
- Quality control
- Ready to ship
- In transit
- Delivered
05 · Track
One digital workspace.
- RFQs
- Quotations
- Orders
- Shipments
- Documents
Your company workspace
- RFQs
- Requirement lines and their status
- Quotations
- Structured terms to accept or decline
- Orders
- Stage from confirmation to delivery
- Shipments
- Booked → Departed → In transit → In customs → Arrived → Delivered
- Documents
- Order and shipment documents in one place
Ways to start
Three entry points, one workflow
- 02
Request a component
Send an MPN, specification or drawing for a part that is not listed.
Request component
Platform path
Public discovery to shipment
Anyone can browse the catalog, manufacturers and network. Sign in once to send requests; every RFQ, quotation, order and shipment then lives in your company workspace.
- Public · no account
- Signed in
- 01Public discoveryCatalog · manufacturers · network
- 02Sign in / onboardingOne sign in; new companies are onboarded
- 03Company workspaceYour organization's workspace
- 04RFQRequirement lines
- 05QuotationStructured terms
- 06OrderExecution
- 07ShipmentTracking · documents