Agent-readable supplier graph

Build defensible supplier shortlists for aerospace and defense manufacturing.

Search a CAGE/UEI-enriched supplier graph with SAM.gov, NAICS/PSC, AS9100, ITAR, capability, material, location, and award-history signals. Export ranked source lists your sourcing, quality, and proposal teams can defend.

Source list preview

Requirement: 5-axis titanium, AS9100, 500-mile radius

Evidence-backed

Supplier candidate 1

Huntsville region precision machining profile

92% fit
CAGE/UEICAGE activeTitanium5-axis

Supplier candidate 2

Huntsville region precision machining profile

85% fit
CAGE/UEIAS9100 signalTitanium5-axis

Supplier candidate 3

Huntsville region precision machining profile

78% fit
CAGE/UEINAICS matchTitanium5-axis

Supplier candidate 4

Huntsville region precision machining profile

71% fit
CAGE/UEIAward signalTitanium5-axis

2,804+

CAGE-verified suppliers

50

states covered

4 paths

web, export, API, and MCP

The buyer pain

Supplier discovery should not be a spreadsheet scavenger hunt.

Your team is expected to find compliant, capable, U.S.-based suppliers under program pressure. Stale vendor lists and self-reported cert claims are not enough when sourcing, quality, and capture all need a defensible answer.

Supplier discovery is fragmented

Sourcing teams still bounce between Google, SAM.gov, old spreadsheets, supplier portals, certification databases, and tribal knowledge.

Claims need evidence

Aerospace and defense buyers need more than a shop saying it does 5-axis, titanium, AS9100, ITAR, or CMMC-ready work.

Procurement systems start too late

Coupa, SAP Ariba, JAGGAER, Ivalua, Oracle, and Exostar-style workflows matter after candidates are selected. The hard part starts upstream.

What V2 returns

Every recommended supplier comes with a reason.

MachineShop.Directory V2 ranks suppliers with source-backed identity, fit, compliance, and market-proof signals, then exposes the result to people and agents.

CAGE and UEI identity signals
SAM.gov registration status
NAICS and PSC alignment
AS9100, ISO, ITAR, NADCAP, and CMMC signals
5-axis, Swiss, EDM, grinding, fabrication, and inspection capabilities
Titanium, Inconel, aluminum, stainless, and composite material experience
Federal award history and agency signals
Source links, freshness, confidence, and risk notes

Built for the real buying committee

Sourcing, quality, capture, and supplier diversity need the same evidence.

The first ICP is aerospace and defense teams that cannot afford a weak source list. They need candidates that match the requirement, not just a directory category.

Strategic sourcing teams building second-source and surge-capacity lists

Supplier quality teams pre-screening shops before audits and onboarding

Capture and proposal teams assembling defensible subcontractor evidence

Small-business liaison teams looking for requirement-fit manufacturing sources

Consumption paths

Use it before onboarding, then feed the systems you already have.

Web source lists

Search, filter, rank, and save source lists by requirement, geography, certification, and capability.

CSV and PDF evidence packs

Export supplier candidates with source links, fit rationale, missing-data flags, and questions to ask before RFQ.

API and MCP access

Let internal tools and procurement agents search, enrich, rank, and monitor the supplier graph.

Procurement handoff

Own the messy research step before the supplier enters Coupa.

MSD V2 should not try to replace procurement systems. It should create the auditable source list those systems need before sourcing, onboarding, qualification, and purchase-order workflows begin.

1

Coupa, SAP Ariba, JAGGAER, and similar suites

Supplier intake, sourcing events, onboarding, risk, performance, and procurement workflow once candidates are selected.

2

Exostar and prime supplier portals

Aerospace and defense supplier access, compliance tracking, collaboration, purchase-order, and order-to-payment workflows.

3

ERP, MRP, QMS, and approved supplier lists

Vendor master creation, approved-source records, PO execution, receiving, nonconformance, and audit documentation.

4

Excel, email, Teams, and proposal documents

The real upstream review surface before a supplier earns a formal record in a procurement system.

Example agent request

Find 12 U.S. small-business CNC machine shops within 500 miles of Huntsville that appear capable of 5-axis titanium aerospace work, have CAGE/UEI, show AS9100 or ISO evidence, have relevant NAICS/PSC alignment, and have federal aerospace/defense award signals. Return a ranked shortlist with source links, confidence, risks, and questions to ask before RFQ.