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Why Use SourceAuthority?

Immediate Value
We provide immediate access to industry leading buyers.

Powerful Sales Tools
Leverage your reputation for quality into a powerful marketing message.

Reduce Sales Costs
Invest in your business, not in annual subscriptions.

Amazing ROI
Once registered, qualified suppliers pay only for results.

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How It Works

Five Easy Steps to Growing Your Machine Shop Sales

Leverage Your Reputation for Quality into a Marketing Message
SourceAuthority.com provides you with powerful marketing tools to showcase your machine shop or contract manufacturing company. We help you build a Supplier Profile which gives manufacturing buyers and engineers an overview of your machine shop's or job shop's reputation, equipment, capacity and expertise. Upload your marketing collateral. This information is made available to OEM buyers and engineers as they are reviewing your quotes.

View RFQs Matched to Your Machine Shop’s Strengths and Goals
During the registration process you will have an opportunity to select the contract manufacturing disciplines your company performs. Choose from 14 contract manufacturing categories including: Assembly, Castings, Fabrication, Forging, Machining, Tool & Die and more. The selections that you make will determine the types of Request for Quote opportunities you will receive from OEM buyers and engineers.

Collaborate with Buyers
OEM Buyers and machine shops, job shops and other contract manufacturers communicate seamlessly throughout the quote process -- enabling both to ask and receive answers to critical questions that will affect the success of the machining or contract manufacturing project. Easily view and collaborate on CAD files or other pertinent Request for Quote documents. All collaboration is stored with your quote for easy reference.

Create and Submit Quotations
Use SourceAuthority's online quote templates to quickly create quotations. Submitting machining or other quotes to the OEM buyer or engineer is as simple as clicking a button.

Accept Awarded Projects
Conduct due diligence on the OEM buyer or engineer. If you are a machine shop or a job shop, contract directly with the buyer for production and begin growing your business! It's an easy way to begin marketing your company and increase sales today. All we ask is that you honor SourceAuthority.com's Terms of Use.

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