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Manufacturing & Industrial

Product CatalogsRFQ PortalsOEM Integration

Desenvolvimento de Sites para Fornecedores Automotivos

Seu Formulário de RFQ Perde Engenheiros Antes Deles Clicarem em Enviar

< 1.5s

Page Load

LCP on catalog pages

10K+

SKU Support

Indexed & searchable

97+

Lighthouse Score

Performance target

30 day

Post-Launch Support

Included free

What Automotive Supplier Websites Actually Do — And Why Generic B2B Templates Break

A procurement engineer lands on your site at 9 a.m. looking for a specific bushing with a 0.002" tolerance window. Your competitor's catalog lets them filter by material, cross-reference the OEM part number, and submit an RFQ with volume pricing in under three minutes. Your site has a PDF and a contact form. That's the gap automotive supplier website development closes. This isn't about making your brand look nice — it's infrastructure for how Tier 1 and Tier 2 buyers actually source parts. Searchable catalogs with real spec data. RFQ systems that route to your CRM with lead scores already attached. OEM portals where Ford or Stellantis engineers download STEP files without calling your sales desk. IATF 16949 certs surfaced where procurement checks first. Live ERP integration so your site shows real lead times, not placeholder copy from 2022. When you lose a program award to a supplier whose website answered the engineer's question in 90 seconds, you didn't lose on quality. You lost on speed — and that's fixable.

Onde os projetos falham

Static PDF catalogs are a conversion killer Buyers can't search them, can't filter by tolerance or material, can't find anything quickly. So what happens? The engineer skips your catalog entirely and specs a competitor's part instead. You never even knew they were looking.

No RFQ workflow means inquiries come through whatever generic contact form your site has -- if it has one at all Leads get lost in someone's inbox, response times balloon to days, and procurement teams move on. There's another supplier who got back to them in two hours.

Here's the thing about IATF 16949 and ISO certifications -- if they're buried or missing from your site entirely, OEM purchasing departments disqualify you before they ever pick up the phone It's not a small problem. It's a hard stop.

Part numbers and spec sheets that aren't properly indexed by Google might as well not exist You're getting zero organic traffic from the engineers who are actively searching for your exact products right now -- today -- and landing on a competitor's page instead.

An outdated site compared to the other suppliers bidding on the same programs signals something procurement teams notice immediately You're perceived as smaller, less capable, less serious -- even if your manufacturing floor in Lansing or Monterrey is genuinely superior to everyone else in the room.

No integration between your website and ERP or inventory data puts the burden on your sales team to manually update availability That leads to errors. It leads to wasted quoting cycles. And honestly, it leads to good salespeople spending their time on data entry instead of closing programs.

Conformidade

Searchable Product Catalogs

Faceted search across part numbers, materials, tolerances, and application fitment changes everything for the engineers using your site. They find exactly what they need in seconds -- not minutes of scrolling through a PDF or waiting for someone to reply to an email.

RFQ Submission System

Structured RFQ forms -- built specifically for this industry -- capture part requirements, order volumes, and target timelines upfront. And the real kicker is automatic routing: submissions go directly to the right sales engineer based on product line or region, no manual forwarding required.

Certification & Compliance Display

Dedicated sections for IATF 16949, ISO 9001, PPAP documentation, and environmental compliance aren't just nice to have. They build buyer confidence before the first call happens. Procurement teams do their homework, and they need to find this stuff fast.

Technical Spec Delivery

Dynamic spec sheets with downloadable CAD files, material data sheets, and dimensional drawings -- all served from a CDN so load times stay fast whether someone's pulling files from Stuttgart or Guadalajara. No more emailing drawings back and forth.

ERP & Inventory Integration

Connect your site directly to SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite and you can display real-time stock levels and lead times without anyone touching a spreadsheet. Your team stops doing manual data entry. Buyers get accurate information. Everyone wins.

Secure OEM Portal Access

Gated portals for key accounts give your biggest customers access to custom pricing, program-specific documentation, and order history -- all in one place. Role-based access controls keep sensitive data locked down so the right people see the right things.

O que construímos

Filter 50,000 SKUs by dimension, material, tolerance, and OEM cross-reference in under 15 seconds

Engineers find your exact part faster than they find your competitor's — and spec it into their BOM

Update product specs, pricing, and availability without waiting on a developer or touching code

Your product team controls the catalog without developer bottlenecks slowing every price update

Serve technical content in English, German, Spanish, and Mandarin for global OEM relationships

You stay visible to OEM procurement in Detroit, Stuttgart, and Monterrey without rebuilding the site three times

Deliver authenticated CAD file downloads — STEP, IGES, DXF — tied to each product listing

Your sales team sees who downloaded what file, when, and for which program — before the RFQ arrives

Route RFQ submissions to Salesforce or HubSpot with volume-based lead scoring pre-applied

High-intent leads hit your CRM sorted by deal size, so your team calls the $2M opportunities first

Load 50,000+ SKU pages in under 2 seconds with static generation and edge caching

Google ranks your part numbers above competitors because your pages are fast, indexed, and structured for search

Nosso processo

Supply Chain Audit

We start by mapping your product hierarchy, your buyer personas -- procurement versus engineering, they want different things -- and your current pain points. Plus we dig into your existing ERP data structures and catalog assets before anyone writes a line of code.

Week 1

Architecture & UX Design

From that discovery work, we build out the information architecture for your catalog taxonomy, wireframes for RFQ flows, and portal access patterns. You approve everything first. No surprises halfway through the build.

Weeks 2–3

Development & Integration

Frontend goes in Next.js, Sanity CMS handles product management so your team can actually use it, and we connect your ERP endpoints for live inventory and pricing data. Pretty straightforward stack for this type of site -- battle-tested on catalogs with tens of thousands of SKUs.

Weeks 4–7

Data Migration & QA

We import all your SKUs, spec sheets, and certifications -- then test everything. Search accuracy, RFQ routing logic, portal permissions, cross-browser rendering. We find the problems before your buyers do.

Weeks 8–9

Launch & Optimization

Deploy goes to the Vercel edge network. After launch we're monitoring Core Web Vitals, search indexing, and RFQ conversion rates. And there's 30 days of post-launch support included -- because something always needs a tweak.

Week 10

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Perguntas frequentes

Como vocês lidam com catálogos de produtos com 10.000+ peças?

Cada SKU recebe sua própria URL indexada, estaticamente gerada e armazenada em cache na borda usando regeneração incremental. Assim, a página 47.000 carrega tão rápido quanto sua página inicial. O Sanity CMS cuida de importações em massa via CSV — ninguém está entrando produtos um por um. E o Algolia oferece busca facetada instantânea em todos os atributos: número da peça, material, dimensões, referências cruzadas de OEM. É genuinamente rápido.

Vocês conseguem integrar nosso SAP ou Epicor ERP com o website?

Sim, e fazemos corretamente. Construímos camadas de middleware que puxam níveis de inventário, prazos de entrega e tabelas de preço diretamente da API ou visualizações de banco de dados da sua ERP. A frequência de sincronização é sua escolha — horária, diária ou em tempo real via webhooks. Seu time de vendas para de atualizar planilhas manualmente e começa a confiar nos dados do site.

Vocês constroem sistemas de RFQ ou apenas formulários de contato?

O fluxo de RFQ que construímos é estruturado em torno de como os compradores automotivos realmente trabalham. Eles selecionam peças específicas, inserem requisitos de volume e datas-alvo, e fazem upload de desenhos ou especificações direto no formulário. Depois a submissão roteia automaticamente para o engenheiro de vendas certo — baseado em linha de produto ou região — e entra no seu CRM com lead scoring já aplicado. Sem mais leads perdidos em uma caixa de entrada genérica.

Quanto tempo leva um projeto de website para fornecedor automotivo?

A maioria dos projetos é lançada em 8–10 semanas. Sites menores com menos de 500 SKUs e sem integração com ERP conseguem sair em 6 semanas — já fizemos isso. Builds maiores com taxonomias de catálogo complexas, suporte multilíngue e acesso a portal normalmente rodam 10–12 semanas. De qualquer forma, scopamos precisamente antes de começar para não haver surpresas no seu fim.

Os compradores de engenharia conseguem fazer download de arquivos CAD?

Absolutamente. Áreas de download autenticadas para arquivos STEP, IGES, DXF e desenhos em PDF, todos servidos por uma CDN global para que a entrega seja rápida independentemente de onde seu cliente está puxando os arquivos. Você pode bloquear downloads atrás de um formulário de registro simples para capturar dados de leads, ou deixar abertos. Honestamente, qualquer abordagem funciona — depende apenas do seu processo de vendas.

Como vocês garantem que o site atenda aos requisitos de apresentação IATF 16949?

Construímos páginas de certificação dedicadas com documentação para download, rastreamento de data de expiração e detalhes do escopo de certificação. Mas aqui está o que realmente as faz funcionar: as estruturamos com schema markup para que os mecanismos de busca as surfacem diretamente nos resultados. Equipes de procurement de OEM veem suas credenciais IATF 16949 e ISO antes mesmo de clicarem para entrar no seu site. Essa é a primeira impressão que mantém você na corrida.

Automotive Supplier Sites from $12,000

Fixed-fee. 30-day post-launch support included.

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