Companies that can rapidly and proactively adapt to their supplier networks gain competitive advantages in cost savings, supply resilience, and growth opportunities. McKinsey’s Source for Growth streamlines the traditionally manual and time-consuming supplier discovery process with AI-driven efficiency. It connects you to top suppliers and helps expand your supplier ecosystem, unlocking a competitive edge.
Accelerating AI-powered global suppliers discovery
How we help you
Source for Growth is an advanced, gen AI-enabled solution transforming supplier scanning and sourcing to accelerate supplier discovery and optimize and diversify your supply chain network. We help you identify, evaluate, and engage with global suppliers for any goods or services, reducing risk exposure, lowering costs, and strengthening supply chain resilience.
Supplier Discovery
Integrates expert input, advanced analytics, and access to a network of more than 35 million global suppliers, enabling the identification of best-fit partners within hours.
Supplier Risk
Evaluates supplier risk across financial, reputational, geostrategic, and operational dimensions by leveraging gen AI and proprietary models.
Sourcing Analytics
Maps supplier country-of-origin exposure identifies alternative sourcing regions, and benchmarks sourcing footprint against competitors leveraging trade analysis.
Supply Demand Ecosystem
Visualizes entire value chains and market landscapes to identify growth, sourcing, and commercial expansion opportunities.
HOW IT WORKS
Source for Growth is powered by our proprietary database of more than 35 million suppliers, advanced web scraping, and gen AI functionalities, paired with extensive regional and sector knowledge from our global sourcing experts. We accelerate the supplier discovery process with gen AI-powered automated search suggestions and use algorithms to continually improve based on your input and validation.
Case Studies
Realizing sourcing and roasting cost efficiencies
By leveraging tariff and trade analysis, the team evaluated centralized versus localized coffee roasting models for a global coffee chain and identified streamlined sourcing strategies across nine countries. The optimized scenario delivered approximately $1,000 per ton in import cost savings while reducing tariff exposure for approximately 40 percent of non-US stores, enabling a more resilient and cost-efficient global sourcing footprint.
Assessing supply chain risk for major electronics company
Conducted a rapid end-to-end risk assessment of more than 5,000 Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers across multiple risk dimensions, identifying over 100 priority high-risk suppliers for mitigation. The analysis flagged more than ten financially distressed and previously unknown Tier 2 suppliers for immediate action, enabling targeted intervention, and strengthening overall supply chain resilience.
Expanding supplier nearshoring for heavy-machinery player
Identified more than 1,200 alternative nearshore suppliers across 40 categories to diversify a single-source supply base, shortlisting more than 400 qualified suppliers for requests for information and negotiations. The client unlocked an estimated 5 percent procurement savings, by leveraging competitive quotes and shifting spend closer to manufacturing hubs.
Transformed automotive parts retailer’s procurement operations
Discovered more than 450 alternative global suppliers across 17 categories, with over 220 fully qualified suppliers expanding the competitive landscape across highly consolidated categories. Leveraging these alternative quotes in incumbent negotiations delivered approximately $12.5 million in savings during stage 1, accelerating procurement transformation and expanding supplier capability.
Featured Experts
Mike Gordon
PartnerNew Jersey
Mike serves industrial and energy clients with a focus on operations, procurement, and supply chain.
Francisco Caudillo
Senior asset leaderMiami
Francisco serves industrial and consumer clients with a focus on supply chain, and optimization.