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Access structured cost benchmarks for materials, processes, and components. Support fact-based cost analysis and negotiation.
Connect supplier insights with cost data for better sourcing, cost validation, and value engineering.
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The extension of MAIKI to provide cost reference data is a new milestone and can help buyers and cost engineers to find the real cost of their products.
API ready as on premises database.

Energy Cost
Find industrial use energy cost for electricity, oil, gas, renewable for all main regions and countries. Flexible update from weekly to yearly.
Country Cost References
More than 150 country and regions with specific cost references for labor, interest rates and floor which can be combine with the engergy reference data.
Materials and Semifinished
With more than 4000 base material, this database covers thousands of cost data points for metal, alloys and polymers a raw material or semifinished.
Technical Materials
This database with > 500 entries covers fabrics, meshes, foils but also leather and other materials which are widely used cross industry and which cannot be found in typical material cost databases.
Manufacturing Equipment
More than 2000 manufacturing equipments for the most important technologies which allows to model more the 95% of all manufacturing routes. With technical parameters, investment and energy consumption.
Consumables
As small but helpful data base which cover the cost for typical consumable like lubrication oil, casting sand, binders etc. This reference cost can be used for a precise cost modeling of manufacturing processes.
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MAIKI provides a unique approach to find suppliers by their manufacturing capabitilies and not there promises.

Match sourcing requirements to verified supplier capabilities with the MAIKI AI driven search assistant.
Use MAIKI as buyer to search for possible new suppliers in the field of manufacturing.
APIs and integrations that fit procurement workflows and scale with teams.
Find suppliers which fit best to to the defined supply chain strategy or localization.
Get supplier shortlists and start with contacting for RFI an RFQ phases.
Enterprise-grade security, access controls and audit logs.
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Integrated supplier matching and structured cost data for procurement and cost engineering.

Match sourcing requirements like target cost to verified supplier capabilities.
Structured cost references for consistent, auditable estimates.
APIs and integrations that fit procurement workflows and scale with teams.
AI driven benchmark cost combined with supplier cababilities for better sourcing decisions.
Automated information requests for new supplier data requests.
Enterprise-grade security, access controls and audit logs.
Data Points
Supplier match precision
Materials
Country Data