For Supply chain + procurement leadership
One Partner. Multiple Component Types. Simpler Supply Chain.
Managing 20 suppliers for components that should come from 5 is killing your procurement team's bandwidth. SB5 manufactures across every category - brush seals, EPDM, brackets, fasteners, rollers, custom parts - so you can consolidate without compromising.
Sound Familiar?
Common Symptoms We Hear
- Too many low-volume supplier relationships to manage
- Inconsistent quality across fragmented supplier base
- Administrative overhead of dozens of POs and invoices
- Minimum order quantities force unnecessary inventory
- No leverage to negotiate with small spend per supplier
The hidden cost of fragmented sourcing
Every supplier relationship carries fixed admin costs: qualification, POs, AP cycles, quality audits, payment terms. When you have 20 suppliers for components that represent 10% of spend, you're spending more on managing them than on the parts themselves. Consolidation isn't just simpler - it's cheaper.
Why SB5's cross-category capability matters
Most custom component suppliers specialize in one category (just brush seals, or just rubber extrusions, or just fasteners). We manufacture across every category your production line needs. That means you can consolidate multiple suppliers into one relationship without losing specialization on any specific part.
- Brush seals + pile weatherstrip
- EPDM rubber + silicone seals
- Steel and aluminum brackets (stamped and CNC)
- Stainless and metric fasteners
- Roller tubes and idler assemblies
- Custom metal components (stamping, CNC, fabrication)
Warehoused reorders simplify your operations
After initial sample approval, we warehouse your approved parts in our Plant City, FL facility. Reorders ship fast from stock - no more coordinating production schedules across 20 suppliers, no more carrying excess inventory to hedge against supplier delays.
Bring us your BOM. We'll rebid the 2-3 biggest categories.
Send us a spreadsheet of your current components and we'll quote the ones that fit SB5's manufacturing mix. Start with 2-3 categories under one PO, test the relationship end-to-end, then expand as the numbers prove themselves.