A supplier PCN may contain hundreds of affected part numbers, several deadlines, qualification data, replacement recommendations, and changes that affect multiple active products. Behind each affected MPN is a component your products already depend on — and a decision engineering has to make about it.
PCNshark carries the work from notice to decision: extract and verify the affected parts and dates, identify BOM and product exposure, and disposition each affected line — with the component's organization-wide record at hand. Lifecycle status backed by evidence, the manufacturer's recommended replacement and spec-ranked alternates (Team plans and above), distributor sourcing estimates, datasheets, and the history of what the team decided before, and why.
Available on Starter and Team. A payment method is required.
PCNshark organizes the notice and response workflow. Engineering, quality, sourcing, regulatory, and commercial owners remain responsible for technical and business decisions.
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The same document, handled two ways. The response paths — accept, request clarification, qualify the supplier change, qualify an alternate, perform a lifetime buy, redesign, or close with no active exposure — are chosen by the team. For the alternate path, PCNshark surfaces the manufacturer's recommended replacement from the notice and spec-ranked functional candidates to evaluate (Team plans and above). PCNshark does not recommend a response automatically.
One connected record per notice — the parts, dates, BOM exposure, owners, actions, and disposition — instead of a document, a spreadsheet, and a thread.
Each part carries a lifecycle status with the evidence behind it — the notice, the source, the date. Conflicting signals are flagged for review, and a manually reviewed decision is never silently overwritten.
The manufacturer's recommended replacement is extracted from the notice itself; functional candidates are ranked by specification similarity, with the differing specs shown (Team plans and above). Similarity prioritizes the evaluation — qualification stays with engineering.
Stock, MOQ, price breaks, and estimated lead times across ~15 distributors, with authorized-versus-independent context and a market median at 1k quantities. Distributor data, refreshed on demand — estimates, not quotes.
Find and attach the datasheet from available sources, or upload your own copy, so the spec review happens next to the impact instead of in a separate browser tab.
See every BOM and program a part touches before deciding. Each affected line gets its own decision, exclusions are recorded, and manufacturer mismatches are flagged for review.
An append-only, part-level record of who changed what, when, from what to what, why, and on what evidence — so the next engineer inherits the reasoning, not just the outcome.
An illustrative manufacturing-process change with a supplier qualification report concluding no form-fit-function change. Different products reach different dispositions. Sample data — not a screenshot of a native integration.
Illustrative example. Customer, supplier, product, and BOM information has been replaced. One notice can reach different dispositions per product; PCNshark keeps each connected to the source.
Inbox and folders
Structured source record
Read and copy
Extract for verification
Spreadsheet or calendar
Connected to the notice
Search BOM files
Match monitored BOMs
Trace records manually
Surface product exposure
Meetings, chat, email
Owner, action, and status
Cross-reference tables and datasheet hunting
Mfr-recommended + spec-ranked candidates (Team plans and above)
Distributor tabs, one by one
Stock, MOQ, price-break, and lead-time estimates across ~15 distributors
Separate tracker
Connected follow-up
Multiple folders
Notice and decision together
Search old messages
Append-only decision history on the part
PCNshark does not make engineering or quality decisions automatically. It surfaces alternate candidates (Team plans and above) and distributor sourcing estimates as inputs, and organizes the evidence and workflow the team uses to decide and document.
A practical field checklist for a supplier notice — copyable and printable, no email required.
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PCNshark captures the supplier notice, affected parts, dates, BOM exposure, ownership, and disposition that make up this checklist — in one connected record.
Exact ownership varies by company, product, quality system, and regulatory environment.
Verify affected parts, understand the change, assess technical impact, and coordinate qualification or alternate review.
Track supplier deadlines, inventory, demand, lifetime-buy exposure, and commercial action.
Review qualification, quality, reliability, customer, and controlled-document requirements.
Prioritize affected products, dependencies, schedule risk, and closure.
PCNshark organizes the supplier notice and the response workflow around the tools and judgment your team already brings.
Bring the notices and BOMs your team already manages into one reviewable workflow. Extract the affected parts and dates, identify product exposure, assign owners, and preserve each engineering disposition — with alternates (Team plans and above), sourcing estimates, and the lifecycle decision recorded on the component itself.
Lifecycle truth with evidence, on an org-wide component record.
Read →Manufacturer-recommended replacements and spec-ranked candidates.
Read →Part-level decision history: who, when, what changed, why.
Read →The focused PCN workflow, end to end.
Read →EOL, last-time-buy, and BOM exposure.
Read →Where PCNshark fits before formal PLM change.
Read →Focused PCN workflow vs. a broad platform.
Read →Starter, Team, and Scale — published pricing.
Read →Workflow descriptions are based on PCNshark's current production capabilities. Responsibilities and dispositions vary by company, product, quality system, and regulatory environment.
