Medical Devices
Procurement AI: save lives while saving time.
Unify data across engineering, procurement, and suppliers to make better design and sourcing decisions for the next-generation of medical technologies.
Medical Devices
Procurement AI: save lives while saving time.
Unify data across engineering, procurement, and suppliers to make better design and sourcing decisions for the next-generation of medical technologies.
Medical Devices
Procurement AI: save lives while saving time.
Unify data across engineering, procurement, and suppliers to make better design and sourcing decisions for the next-generation of medical technologies.
Why medical device sourcing loses cost influence early
When sourcing information and processes are scattered across teams and systems without a centralized procurement tool, companies lose the ability to influence cost before designs are finalized. Teams then spend valuable time reacting instead of shaping product cost and margin early.
Cost and supplier data is fragmented.
Engineers make the best decisions they can with the data they have, but miss opportunities to Design for Cost or leverage supplier capabilities.
Market data is slow and not reusable.
Supply market intelligence arrives too late to influence program decisions, forcing teams to repeat the same analyses and frustrating suppliers in the process.
Limited sourcing process standardization and measurement.
Sourcing processes vary by region, team, and buyers, adding time and inconsistency while making throughput, cycle time, and performance difficult to measure.
Challenges collaborating with Contract Manufacturers.
When production relies on external partners, cost visibility decreases and teams spend significant time manually reconciling and updating pricing.
Data is siloed across ERP(s), CAD systems, PLM(s), quality systems.
Specs, drawings, models, and quality data live across ERP, CAD, PLM, and other systems, requiring manual coordination and increasing the risk of teams working from outdated designs.
The reason why we love LightSource so much is we have quarterly RFQs on our tail spend which is a tremendous amount of volume and vendors – it's a huge number – and this platform allows us to conduct those with ease.
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer
The reason why we love LightSource so much is we have quarterly RFQs on our tail spend which is a tremendous amount of volume and vendors – it's a huge number – and this platform allows us to conduct those with ease.
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer
The reason why we love LightSource so much is we have quarterly RFQs on our tail spend which is a tremendous amount of volume and vendors – it's a huge number – and this platform allows us to conduct those with ease.
Eugene Galdi
Chief Procurement Officer
Own product cost from design through production
Establish full BOM visibility across structure, cost history, and suppliers in a single system. Enable early supplier collaboration and standardized sourcing so cost decisions shape designs instead of reacting to them.
Gain full BOM visibility
Track multi level BOM structure while capturing current cost and maintaining historical cost snapshots over time.
Gain full BOM visibility
Track multi level BOM structure while capturing current cost and maintaining historical cost snapshots over time.
Gain full BOM visibility
Track multi level BOM structure while capturing current cost and maintaining historical cost snapshots over time.
The source-of-truth for sourcing
Centralize quotes, contracts, supplier relationships, and RFX activity in one system, with automated response management, performance tracking, and item data that makes sharing specs with suppliers fast and consistent.
The source-of-truth for sourcing
Centralize quotes, contracts, supplier relationships, and RFX activity in one system, with automated response management, performance tracking, and item data that makes sharing specs with suppliers fast and consistent.
The source-of-truth for sourcing
Centralize quotes, contracts, supplier relationships, and RFX activity in one system, with automated response management, performance tracking, and item data that makes sharing specs with suppliers fast and consistent.
Collaborate early in the product cycle
Automatically sync product specifications and drawings across teams and share design changes with suppliers early to incorporate valuable input before decisions are locked.
Collaborate early in the product cycle
Automatically sync product specifications and drawings across teams and share design changes with suppliers early to incorporate valuable input before decisions are locked.
Collaborate early in the product cycle
Automatically sync product specifications and drawings across teams and share design changes with suppliers early to incorporate valuable input before decisions are locked.
Make the best practice the easy button
LightSource templates, along with your own custom templates, help teams apply best practices consistently across every stage of the sourcing process.
Make the best practice the easy button
LightSource templates, along with your own custom templates, help teams apply best practices consistently across every stage of the sourcing process.
Make the best practice the easy button
LightSource templates, along with your own custom templates, help teams apply best practices consistently across every stage of the sourcing process.
Details
The enterprise grade
platform you can trust
Here's how LightSource meets the critical requirements of modern enterprise procurement technology:
Security & Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2 certified with with continuous observation and industry-leading security controls.
Trusted by aerospace, defense, and Fortune 500 manufacturers to protect sensitive sourcing data and intellectual property with enterprise grade security infrastructure. Connect existing identity access management (IDP) platforms like Okta, Azure AD, or multiple systems, with SAML SSO and SCIM for automated, secure user provisioning.
Reliability & Support
LightSource delivers enterprise-grade reliability through a modern AWS-hosted architecture with high-performance RUST backend, robust fault-tolerant systems, and best-in-class dynamic scaling that ensures consistent global accessibility.
Expert support from former McKinsey procurement consultants enables buyers launching their first RFQs to dramatically accelerating time-to-value compared to legacy systems.
Rapid Implementation
LightSource’s deployment can be completed in days compared to 6-18 months for legacy systems.
Customers can start within hours using flat file uploads, and scale into full integrations at any pace. Our team guides you through onboarding to ensure fast time-to-value.
Global Scalability & Accessibility
Built for enterprise organizations operating worldwide.
The only procurement platform with native accessibility in mainland China, using the lightsource.cn domain to ensure reliable access and collaboration for users, suppliers, and buyers in mainland China without VPN requirements.
Details
The enterprise grade platform you can trust
Here's how LightSource meets the critical requirements of modern enterprise procurement technology:
Security & Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2 certified with with continuous observation and industry-leading security controls.
Trusted by aerospace, defense, and Fortune 500 manufacturers to protect sensitive sourcing data and intellectual property with enterprise grade security infrastructure. Connect existing identity access management (IDP) platforms like Okta, Azure AD, or multiple systems, with SAML SSO and SCIM for automated, secure user provisioning.
Reliability & Support
LightSource delivers enterprise-grade reliability through a modern AWS-hosted architecture with high-performance RUST backend, robust fault-tolerant systems, and best-in-class dynamic scaling that ensures consistent global accessibility.
Expert support from former McKinsey procurement consultants enables buyers launching their first RFQs to dramatically accelerating time-to-value compared to legacy systems.
Rapid Implementation
LightSource’s deployment can be completed in days compared to 6-18 months for legacy systems.
Customers can start within hours using flat file uploads, and scale into full integrations at any pace. Our team guides you through onboarding to ensure fast time-to-value.
Global Scalability & Accessibility
Built for enterprise organizations operating worldwide.
The only procurement platform with native accessibility in mainland China, using the lightsource.cn domain to ensure reliable access and collaboration for users, suppliers, and buyers in mainland China without VPN requirements.
Details
The enterprise grade
platform you can trust
Here's how LightSource meets the critical requirements of modern enterprise procurement technology:
Security & Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2 certified with with continuous observation and industry-leading security controls.
Trusted by aerospace, defense, and Fortune 500 manufacturers to protect sensitive sourcing data and intellectual property with enterprise grade security infrastructure. Connect existing identity access management (IDP) platforms like Okta, Azure AD, or multiple systems, with SAML SSO and SCIM for automated, secure user provisioning.
Reliability & Support
LightSource delivers enterprise-grade reliability through a modern AWS-hosted architecture with high-performance RUST backend, robust fault-tolerant systems, and best-in-class dynamic scaling that ensures consistent global accessibility.
Expert support from former McKinsey procurement consultants enables buyers launching their first RFQs to dramatically accelerating time-to-value compared to legacy systems.
Rapid Implementation
LightSource’s deployment can be completed in days compared to 6-18 months for legacy systems.
Customers can start within hours using flat file uploads, and scale into full integrations at any pace. Our team guides you through onboarding to ensure fast time-to-value.
Global Scalability & Accessibility
Built for enterprise organizations operating worldwide.
The only procurement platform with native accessibility in mainland China, using the lightsource.cn domain to ensure reliable access and collaboration for users, suppliers, and buyers in mainland China without VPN requirements.
Ready to change the way you source?
Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.
Ready to change the way you source?
Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.
Ready to change the way you source?
Try out LightSource and you’ll never go back to Excel and email.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Need support or want a demo? Let us know. We are just a message away.
How does LightSource handle cross-functional collaboration?
LightSource brings Engineering, Procurement, Design, Finance, Sales, and other stakeholders into a single shared project workspace, so everyone is working from the same source of truth. This streamlines communication, reduces back-and-forth and handoffs, and enables faster alignment on supplier questions, quote updates, and spec changes without relying on a “middleman” to relay critical information.
Can we use LightSource if we don’t have a PLM / don’t have a single PLM?
Yes, while LightSource supports PLM integrations, we can also work with you to use other systems / datasets as your source of truth and our platform supports flat-file based syncs for all common integration surfaces.
What integrations does LightSource support?
LightSource can support integrations with any of your systems using our open GraphQL API. Customers often integrate with CAD or PLM systems to automatically pull in item specifications, BOM hierarchies, and product drawings. ERP integrations enable item contract data to propagate to your P2P processes - ensuring your company purchases the right parts from the right suppliers at the right price and the right terms. Other common integrations include connections to data lakes for customers who want to develop custom reporting on their data from LightSource.
How does this platform leverage AI?
LightSource embeds AI across the entire sourcing workflow to reduce manual work and speed up decisions. AI helps structure projects from uploaded drawings and data, generate standardized quote formats, guide suppliers through RFQs, support supplier communication, and automate bid comparison and award optimization - so sourcing teams can source faster with fewer errors.
What is LightSource?
LightSource is an AI-powered enterprise procurement platform that serves as a complete operating system for strategic and direct sourcing. It centralizes collaboration, project management, cost tracking, and decision-making for buyers and suppliers in one place.
What problems does LightSource solve?
We replace outdated, email-and-spreadsheet procurement workflows with a unified platform. LightSource eliminates inefficiencies like manual data entry, poor cost visibility, and disconnected communication, enabling faster cycles, greater transparency, and measurable cost savings.
What makes LightSource different from other procurement software?
LightSource is the only sourcing platform purpose-built for large-scale direct materials procurement. We combine end-to-end functionality, advanced AI, and a focus on buyer–supplier collaboration—without the heavy customization most legacy systems require.
What industries and customers use LightSource?
We serve Global 2,000 and Fortune 500 companies in industries like automotive, aerospace & defense, chemicals, consumer electronics, retail & apparel, and industrial food. Customers include Shure, HelloFresh, Canada Goose, and Bombardier (BRP).
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Need support or want a demo? Let us know. We are just a message away.
How does LightSource handle cross-functional collaboration?
LightSource brings Engineering, Procurement, Design, Finance, Sales, and other stakeholders into a single shared project workspace, so everyone is working from the same source of truth. This streamlines communication, reduces back-and-forth and handoffs, and enables faster alignment on supplier questions, quote updates, and spec changes without relying on a “middleman” to relay critical information.
Can we use LightSource if we don’t have a PLM / don’t have a single PLM?
Yes, while LightSource supports PLM integrations, we can also work with you to use other systems / datasets as your source of truth and our platform supports flat-file based syncs for all common integration surfaces.
What integrations does LightSource support?
LightSource can support integrations with any of your systems using our open GraphQL API. Customers often integrate with CAD or PLM systems to automatically pull in item specifications, BOM hierarchies, and product drawings. ERP integrations enable item contract data to propagate to your P2P processes - ensuring your company purchases the right parts from the right suppliers at the right price and the right terms. Other common integrations include connections to data lakes for customers who want to develop custom reporting on their data from LightSource.
How does this platform leverage AI?
LightSource embeds AI across the entire sourcing workflow to reduce manual work and speed up decisions. AI helps structure projects from uploaded drawings and data, generate standardized quote formats, guide suppliers through RFQs, support supplier communication, and automate bid comparison and award optimization - so sourcing teams can source faster with fewer errors.
What is LightSource?
LightSource is an AI-powered enterprise procurement platform that serves as a complete operating system for strategic and direct sourcing. It centralizes collaboration, project management, cost tracking, and decision-making for buyers and suppliers in one place.
What problems does LightSource solve?
We replace outdated, email-and-spreadsheet procurement workflows with a unified platform. LightSource eliminates inefficiencies like manual data entry, poor cost visibility, and disconnected communication, enabling faster cycles, greater transparency, and measurable cost savings.
What makes LightSource different from other procurement software?
LightSource is the only sourcing platform purpose-built for large-scale direct materials procurement. We combine end-to-end functionality, advanced AI, and a focus on buyer–supplier collaboration—without the heavy customization most legacy systems require.
What industries and customers use LightSource?
We serve Global 2,000 and Fortune 500 companies in industries like automotive, aerospace & defense, chemicals, consumer electronics, retail & apparel, and industrial food. Customers include Shure, HelloFresh, Canada Goose, and Bombardier (BRP).
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Need support or want a demo? Let us know. We are just a message away.
How does LightSource handle cross-functional collaboration?
LightSource brings Engineering, Procurement, Design, Finance, Sales, and other stakeholders into a single shared project workspace, so everyone is working from the same source of truth. This streamlines communication, reduces back-and-forth and handoffs, and enables faster alignment on supplier questions, quote updates, and spec changes without relying on a “middleman” to relay critical information.
Can we use LightSource if we don’t have a PLM / don’t have a single PLM?
Yes, while LightSource supports PLM integrations, we can also work with you to use other systems / datasets as your source of truth and our platform supports flat-file based syncs for all common integration surfaces.
What integrations does LightSource support?
LightSource can support integrations with any of your systems using our open GraphQL API. Customers often integrate with CAD or PLM systems to automatically pull in item specifications, BOM hierarchies, and product drawings. ERP integrations enable item contract data to propagate to your P2P processes - ensuring your company purchases the right parts from the right suppliers at the right price and the right terms. Other common integrations include connections to data lakes for customers who want to develop custom reporting on their data from LightSource.
How does this platform leverage AI?
LightSource embeds AI across the entire sourcing workflow to reduce manual work and speed up decisions. AI helps structure projects from uploaded drawings and data, generate standardized quote formats, guide suppliers through RFQs, support supplier communication, and automate bid comparison and award optimization - so sourcing teams can source faster with fewer errors.
What is LightSource?
LightSource is an AI-powered enterprise procurement platform that serves as a complete operating system for strategic and direct sourcing. It centralizes collaboration, project management, cost tracking, and decision-making for buyers and suppliers in one place.
What problems does LightSource solve?
We replace outdated, email-and-spreadsheet procurement workflows with a unified platform. LightSource eliminates inefficiencies like manual data entry, poor cost visibility, and disconnected communication, enabling faster cycles, greater transparency, and measurable cost savings.
What makes LightSource different from other procurement software?
LightSource is the only sourcing platform purpose-built for large-scale direct materials procurement. We combine end-to-end functionality, advanced AI, and a focus on buyer–supplier collaboration—without the heavy customization most legacy systems require.
What industries and customers use LightSource?
We serve Global 2,000 and Fortune 500 companies in industries like automotive, aerospace & defense, chemicals, consumer electronics, retail & apparel, and industrial food. Customers include Shure, HelloFresh, Canada Goose, and Bombardier (BRP).
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