Manufacturelink is the ultimate medium to promote your manufacturing business to a large audience of buyers specifically seeking exactly what you do.
ManufactureLink uses its technology to intelligently connect buyers with suppliers of custom components. Our
buyers are engineers, purchasing officers and managers who need to source custom manufacturing services. Our
suppliers are machine shops, jobbing shops, casting foundries, fabricators, toolmakers, moulders and any manufacturer who provides manufacturing services on a job-by-job basis. Our fully automated technology facilitates the complete Request For Quote(RFQ) process including supplier discovery, Non Disclosure Agreements, engineering data exchange, change history, collaboration, quoting, due diligence, analysis, job awarding and progress management processes while requiring no special software or training.
For Buyers of Custom Manufactured Components
As anyone who has sourced custom manufactured components knows, the traditional process of locating suitable manufacturers, assessing a suppliers credentials, sending out specifications, monitoring and chasing up responses, awarding jobs and managing the quality and timelines is difficult, time-consuming and full of risks.
ManufactureLink radically compresses the sourcing timeline and reduces the traditional risks involved with using a new supplier while providing online tools to easily manage custom component sourcing projects.
ManufactureLink’s system gives you the tools to:
- Create RFQs online in seconds.
- Utilize your existing suppliers, or quickly locate new suppliers having the manufacturing processes, expertise and accreditations you need.
- Submit your RFQ to multiple manufacturers at once.
- Protect your valuable drawings and documents using our electronic Non Disclosure Agreements.
- Receive quotes in an easy to compare format.
- Collaborate with suppliers using our messaging system.
- Assess a suppliers reputation using our ratings system.
- Award a quote and manage the job through to completion.
ManufactureLink gives buyers access to hundreds of suppliers with expertise in almost any manufacturing process imaginable, and sourcing with ManufactureLink is free. Absolutely free. Buyers won’t be bitten by hidden transaction fees, there is no compulsory software to buy, install or maintain, nor do we charge commission on any transactions. There are absolutely no costs at all for buyers to use our basic system.
A faster, easier and more cost effective solution for the custom component sourcing process than conventional phone, fax and email methods, bringing the custom manufacturing community together online in one complete, efficient network.
For Suppliers of custom manufacturing services
ManufactureLink’s most powerful sales and marketing tool for custom component manufacturers. Our system matches suppliers capabilities, expertise, accreditations, equipment and capacity to the buyers who need their services in real time. Buyers can discover new opportunities based on their capabilities, not their advertising budget.
Suppliers will be in touch with new and existing customers at the precise moment they need the processes and services they provide. No need for cold calling and expensive advertising to generate new sales leads.
ManufactureLink is not another internet directory or registry. Suppliers sales leads are not dependent on potential customers choosing their ad over someone else’s. New leads are generated based on a suppliers capabilities, expertise, accreditations and the services they offer. ManufactureLink also provides suppliers with the tools to present their professional reputation to their future customers.
Company sales representatives, internet registries, directories, phone book listings and journal ads are the traditional methods to generate sales leads. The costs of these range from a few hundred dollars for one to two lines, up to a couple of thousand dollars for only a slightly enhanced listing. To list a description that comprehensively describes your business typically cost upwards of $10,000 and still requires a customer to choose the ad over another based on the information presented before even getting the chance to quote. ManufactureLink provides suppliers with the opportunities based on their capabilities only, and for a fraction of the costs of other methods.
ManufactureLink provides the tools for suppliers to:
Define your capabilities, expertise, industry experience and accreditations.
- Create a 1 page, web snapshot to professionally promote your full capabilities and experience.
- Create custom ‘Sales Reps’ to locate RFQs for your entire factory, a particular section or even an individual machine.
- Receive daily emails summarizing opportunities to quote matching your expertise.
- View RFQ details, digitally sign NDAs and download drawings and specifications.
- Collaborate with your customers using our messaging system.
- Compile your quotes using our quoting wizard, or use your own systems.
- Quickly and easily submit your quotes online.
- Receive notification of a successful bid, or receive feedback on how you fared if unsuccessful.
- Create a task list for jobs in progress and provide progress reports for your customers.
- Rate your customers on their performance for others to view.
The Process
Buyers create a RFQ by inputting requirements and uploading drawings and specifications. The buyer selects the processes they require along with location and accreditation requirements.
All registered Suppliers whose capabilities match the process requirements of the buyer are notified that an opportunity to quote on a job suiting their expertise has been lodged.
Supplier assesses RFQ details, digitally signs NDA if required, downloads drawings and specifications needed to formulate a quote.
Supplier submits their quote to the system before the nominated closing date. ManufactureLink is not an auction. Only the buyer sees the submitted quotes and suppliers cannot alter their quote once submitted.
Buyer reviews quotes received in an easy to compare format and is able to carry out online ‘due diligence’ by reviewing a supplier’s reputation through our ratings system and viewing their web snapshot or the company website.
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The buyer awards a quote and can supply feedback to failed quotes if desired. The system also automatically provides feedback to all unsuccessful suppliers on how their quote fared.
The buyer prints out a purchase order requisition. Suppliers can print out a job request sheet for their workshop scheduling.
Suppliers can create a task list and update the progress of each task or the entire project. The buyer is able to view the progress of their job as it is manufactured.
At completion of the job, both buyers and suppliers are encouraged to rate each other’s performance.
Joint AMTIL & Manufacturelink membership gives you the opportunity to not only take advantage of the B2B Networking Solution provided by Manufacturelink but all the advantages of being a member of AMTIL and having access to the wide range of benefits that AMTIL membership has to offer such as:
- Access to AMTIL Members Services
- Reduced rates on floor space at Austech
- Reduced advertising rates in the AMT magazine
- Access to industry projects and information
- Access to networking opportunities and seminars at reduced rates
- Much, much more.
Joint membership costs $799 (plus GST) per annum. For existing AMTIL members who wish to take advantage of this B2B Networking Solution the cost of Manufacturelink membership for AMTIL members is $599 (plus GST) per annum which would normally be $799 (plus GST) for Manufacturelink membership alone.
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