Supplier quote · CNC-2156 motor mount · Precision Works
Take the
quote apart.
A supplier quote is one number with no working shown. Costnyx rebuilds it from your engineering drawing, line by line, so your buyer sees which part of the price is cost and which part is cushion.
Why quotes go unchallenged
You're negotiating against a number you can't see inside.
It arrives as a lump sum.
No material rate, no cycle time, no scrap, no margin. A total, a lead time and a deadline.
Challenging it takes a cost engineer.
Most buying teams have one, if any, and they're booked solid on the top few parts.
So the rest renews on trust.
Increases get explained as "the market". Without a baseline there is nothing to push against.
Most of the parts you buy have never had a should-cost.
The overpriced ones look exactly like the rest, until each one has a number of its own.
Drawing intelligence
Reads the drawing the way a cost engineer does.
Upload the PDF. Costnyx takes the title block, material, dimension callouts, tolerances and features off the drawing, then picks the process that will make the part.
Every value cited
Each extracted value carries a confidence level and a citation to the callout it came from.
Reviewed, not re-keyed
Your cost engineer confirms or corrects the extraction before any cost is calculated.
Rough first, exact later
A provisional estimate doesn't wait for complete shop records. Assumptions are stated, and refined as data arrives.
How Costnyx prices a part
Every dollar of the quote, accounted for.
With the part read, Costnyx prices machine time and setup against your rate cards, then adds SG&A and fair profit. It adjusts for the supplier's real plant. Whatever is left over is the gap.
The gap
Nothing in the drawing or the plant explains it
Negotiate
Plant reality
OEE, regional labor and scrap for this supplier
Brownfield $185.00
SG&A and fair profit
Overhead $20.68 and profit $12.65
Net production
Machine time, setup and secondary operations
Net material
6061-T6 billet, yield allowance included
Greenfield $155.00
What your buyer says next
Walk in with the three lines they can't defend.
A gap is only worth something if your buyer can argue it. Costnyx turns the cost stack into the conversation: which lines disagree most, what to ask for, and the email to send.
Where to push, in dollars
The lines where their price runs furthest past your should-cost: setup, a deburr quoted as its own operation, bar yield.
Three emails, ready to send
Ask for their build-up, challenge it line by line, then close at the number. Each one opens in your mail app.
A floor you never disclose
Brownfield is the price a fair version of their plant can hit. Your buyer knows exactly how much room there is.
What finance signs
Savings your controller will actually book.
A buyer's spreadsheet doesn't survive the quarter close. Costnyx keeps identified, approved and realized savings apart, with the baseline quote, volume and assumptions visible on every line.
Ready to take to a supplier
Underway with the supplier
Price confirmed by supplier
POs updated at the new price
Example workspace with illustrative figures, not customer results.
How it works
Three steps to the first flagged part.
Upload
Bring a BOM as Excel or CSV and drawings as PDF, or point Costnyx at a SharePoint folder and let it sync.
No data project. Starts from the files you already have.Review
Check the extraction, confirm drawing matches, and watch the should-cost build itself part by part.
Your cost engineer reviews instead of re-keying.Negotiate
Send buyers in with a script, track counters, and route the savings to finance for sign-off.
Every dollar arrives at finance with its evidence.FAQ
Questions procurement teams ask.
What is a should-cost estimate?
A bottom-up calculation of what a part should cost to manufacture: material, production time, machine rates, overhead (SGA) and profit. Costnyx builds a Greenfield should-cost directly from the engineering drawing, independent of any supplier price history.
How does Costnyx read engineering drawings?
An AI vision model reads the title block and dimension callouts to extract the part’s geometry, material and features from PDF drawings. Each extracted value carries a confidence level and a citation to the callout it came from, and your team confirms or corrects it before costs are calculated.
What is the difference between a Greenfield and a Brownfield cost?
Greenfield is the ideal-plant should-cost built from the drawing alone. Brownfield adjusts that number for the supplier’s actual plant using OEE, regional labor adjustment and scrap rate. Costnyx shows both next to the supplier quote.
What do I need to get started?
A bill of materials in Excel or CSV and part drawings as PDFs. You can upload files directly or connect a SharePoint or OneDrive folder and let Costnyx sync it.
Which manufacturing processes are covered?
Sheet metal fabrication and CNC machining today, plus catalog parts such as fasteners. More processes are on the roadmap.
How do suppliers take part?
You send an invite link. Suppliers enter their rates in a short guided form, no account required, and Costnyx re-costs your parts at that supplier’s rates so you can compare plants side by side.
What happens when a quote comes in below should-cost?
Costnyx flags it rather than treating it as a win. The platform walks the buyer through validating a below-Greenfield price, because a quote you cannot explain is a supply risk.
Does Costnyx integrate with SAP?
SAP S/4HANA integration is planned for the Enterprise tier. Today Costnyx works from Excel uploads and SharePoint or OneDrive folder sync.
Who makes Costnyx?
Costnyx is a product of Wiens Corporation, an engineering consulting and product development firm in Suwanee, Georgia. Wiens also builds OptiTower and Stationyx.
Early access
Want to try it on
your own parts?
Tell us who you are and what you buy. We'll reach out to set up a trial on one BOM and the drawings behind it, and show you where the quotes run high.
The trial includes
- 5 parts analyzed
- 1 portfolio upload
- No credit card required
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