Part identity & cross-reference
The layer everything else depends on.
- Manufacturer part number as published
- Distributor SKU retained
- Cross-reference with confidence score
- Suffix and variant handling
- Manufacturer name normalisation
With part numbers cross-referenced and price breaks captured as tiers.
A single price on an industrial part is nearly meaningless. What matters is the price at your quantity, the minimum you must buy, and when it arrives. Those three vary independently across distributors for the identical manufacturer part.
Free pilot on your own sources, returned in 24 hours. No card, no trial clock — and you keep the sample data either way.
Last verified 5 August 2026 by the Actowiz Solutions Data Engineering team.
Industrial and MRO data scraping is the automated collection of distributor and supplier catalogue data for industrial parts, maintenance and repair supplies, and electronic components: pricing across quantity tiers, order constraints, availability, lead times, technical documentation and lifecycle status.
This category behaves nothing like consumer retail, and the datasets that treat it as retail are unusable.
Every record is a part-distributor combination keyed on the manufacturer part number with the distributor SKU retained, cross-referenced with a confidence score. Pricing is a price_breaks array covering the full tier ladder, alongside moq and pack_multiple. Lead time carries lead_time_basis so in-stock dispatch is never confused with factory lead.
Contract and negotiated pricing. Distributor list pricing is public; what your organisation actually pays under a supply agreement is not, and neither is anyone else's. We collect published pricing and are explicit that it is list rather than landed cost.
Price break ladders and MOQ are the fields that make comparison valid. Lifecycle status is the most under-collected.
The layer everything else depends on.
Price as a ladder, not a number.
What you must actually buy.
With the basis made explicit.
The technical layer.
Obsolescence risk and published claims.
A managed engagement, not a tool licence. We own the pipeline and everything that breaks in it.
Every engagement delivers a documented schema. These are the core fields; the full dictionary runs to 120+ and is agreed during scoping.
| Field | Type | What it captures | Refresh |
|---|---|---|---|
mpn / manufacturer |
string | Manufacturer part number and normalised manufacturer, the primary key | Every run |
distributor / distributor_sku |
string | Distributor and their own SKU, retained for ordering | Every run |
xref_confidence |
decimal | Confidence in the part cross-reference, since suffix variations may be significant | Every run |
price_breaks |
array | Full quantity tier ladder with unit price at each break | Daily |
moq / pack_multiple |
int | Minimum order quantity and purchase increment, which change the real cost | Daily |
stock_qty_shown |
int | Stock quantity as displayed, which many industrial distributors do publish | Daily |
lead_time_days / lead_time_basis |
int / enum | Lead time and whether it reflects stock dispatch or factory lead | Daily |
lifecycle_status |
enum | active, nrnd, obsolete or as published, for obsolescence risk | Weekly |
last_buy_date |
date | Where a manufacturer or distributor publishes a final order date | Weekly |
datasheet_url_captured |
boolean | Whether technical documentation was publicly downloadable and captured | Weekly |
compliance_published / compliance_verified |
array / boolean | Compliance marks as published, with verified constant false | Weekly |
Unlike consumer retail, many industrial distributors publish actual stock quantities. We capture stock_qty_shown as displayed. It is still a display figure rather than an audited inventory count, and we do not treat it as one.
Industrial distribution is fragmented and regional. Coverage is built to your supplier and part set.
Many industrial distributors gate trade pricing behind a login. We collect published list pricing only and do not create trade accounts. Where a distributor publishes nothing without login, we say so rather than substituting another source. Request a source we don't list →
We deliver into 40+ countries. These are the markets where this particular service is requested most, and the reason demand concentrates there.
| Market | Why demand concentrates here |
|---|---|
| Germany | The deepest industrial distribution base in Europe, and the market where published list pricing and price break ladders are most complete. |
| United Kingdom & Netherlands | Strong broadline and specialist distribution with good published pricing transparency. |
| United States | Large distributor base with widely published stock quantities and lifecycle status, particularly in electronic components. |
| India & Southeast Asia | Rapidly formalising industrial distribution with growing online catalogues and significant regional supplier long tail. |
We run production collection across 40+ countries. Coverage depth varies by market and by source, so we confirm what is actually available for your specific markets during scoping rather than claiming uniform global coverage. Ask about a market we don't list →
Procurement and sourcing dominate, with engineering and distributors following.
Comparing distributors on a single price is misleading, and comparing on real landed cost across quantity tiers is manual.
Price break ladders with MOQ and pack multiples across distributors on the same manufacturer part numbers.
Cost per part at your quantity
Supplier consolidation decisions need part-level comparison across a fragmented distributor base.
Cross-referenced part data across your distributor set with lead times and stock, so consolidation scenarios are modellable.
Supplier consolidation savings
Obsolescence risk surfaces late, and lifecycle status is buried in distributor pages.
Lifecycle status with not-recommended-for-new-design flags, last-buy dates and published replacement references.
Obsolescence exposure
Competitor pricing across quantity tiers is invisible without collecting the full ladder.
Competitor price break ladders on matched part numbers, with MOQ and stock captured alongside.
Margin by tier
Range gaps against competitors are unknown at part level across a catalogue of millions.
Part-level presence comparison across competitor catalogues on cross-referenced manufacturer part numbers.
Catalogue coverage
Spare part sourcing under downtime pressure needs stock and lead time visibility across suppliers at once.
Stock quantity and lead time with basis stated across your distributor set on the parts you actually hold.
Downtime hours
Four patterns, with the outcome each is judged on.
Price break ladders are collected with MOQ and pack multiples, so distributors are compared at the quantity you actually buy rather than at whichever tier a single-price dataset happened to capture.
Outcome: Sourcing decisions made on cost at real order quantity rather than on headline unit price.
Lifecycle status, not-recommended-for-new-design flags and last-buy dates are tracked across the part set with change detection.
Outcome: Obsolescence surfaced with time to act rather than discovered at the next order.
Cross-referenced part data across the distributor set with lead times and stock supports scenario modelling for supplier rationalisation.
Outcome: Consolidation scenarios costed at part level instead of estimated.
Full price break ladders on matched manufacturer part numbers reveal where competitors price aggressively by tier rather than overall.
Outcome: Tier-level pricing strategy set against observed competitor ladders.
Clients rarely permit naming. These are real engagement shapes with identifying detail removed, so you can judge whether the work resembles your situation.
Sourcing compared distributors on unit price without accounting for quantity tiers or minimum order quantities, so the cheapest quote frequently was not.
Full price break ladders with MOQ and pack multiples on cross-referenced manufacturer part numbers across the distributor set.
Comparison moved to cost at actual order quantity, reversing several sourcing decisions.
Lifecycle status was buried in distributor pages and never monitored, so end-of-life parts surfaced as failed orders requiring redesign.
Lifecycle status, not-recommended-for-new-design flags and last-buy dates tracked with change detection across the part set.
Obsolescence surfaced with months of lead time rather than at the point of failure.
Examples are anonymised at client request. Named references are available on request under NDA. See published case studies →
Before you commit to anything, we run this service against your own sources and send you the output. If the coverage isn't there, the sample will show you that too — which is the point. We would rather lose the deal at the pilot than at month three.
Same collection pipeline and QA underneath. The difference is who holds the schedule and how the data reaches you.
We own the collection, the QA and the delivery. You receive clean data on a schedule and never touch a scraper.
Best fit: Teams who need the data, not the infrastructure.
The same collection pipeline exposed as an authenticated REST endpoint your systems query directly.
Best fit: Product and engineering teams building on live data.
A defined pull for a specific question — market sizing, diligence, a pitch, a one-off audit.
Best fit: Research, strategy and diligence work with a deadline.
Every engagement is quoted individually, because the honest answer depends on your scope: how many sources, how many records, how often, and how the data reaches you. We scope it with you, run a free pilot on your own sources, and then quote a fixed monthly figure — no per-request metering and no overage billing when volumes move. Request a quote and you will have a number after one call.
Part number cross-referencing across distributors is continuous modelling work, not a one-time mapping.
| Consideration | In-house scraping team | Generic proxy / DIY tool | Actowiz managed feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first usable data | 6–12 weeks of engineering before anything is trustworthy | Days, but output needs manual cleanup before use | Free pilot in 24 hours, production in 5–10 business days |
| Who fixes it when a source changes | Your engineers, at the cost of their roadmap | You do — tools report failures, they don't resolve them | We do, same business day, inside the retainer |
| Data quality assurance | Whatever your team has time to build | None beyond HTTP success | Schema validation plus sampled human QA on every run |
| Compliance documentation | Rarely produced, then requested urgently by legal | Not provided; terms risk sits with you | Sources, method and lawful basis documented for review |
| Accountability | Distributed across a team with other priorities | A support ticket queue | A named engineer and an account owner |
| True annual cost | Engineer salaries, proxies, hosting, ongoing maintenance | Low licence fee plus significant hidden analyst time | One fixed monthly retainer, quoted after scoping |
Everything useful in industrial data depends on knowing that a part at distributor A is the same part as at distributor B. That sounds trivial and is the hardest part of the category.
Cross-referencing combines normalised part number matching, manufacturer normalisation, specification comparison where published, and datasheet extraction where the part number appears only there. Every link carries xref_confidence.
The failure modes are asymmetric, so we bias against merging. A wrong merge produces a price comparison between two different parts, which is worse than a missing comparison because it looks correct. Low-confidence links arrive flagged rather than applied.
House-brand equivalents are recorded as equivalence relationships rather than as the same part, so you can include or exclude them deliberately. For procurement that distinction is often the whole analysis.
Industrial distribution has a stronger tradition than most sectors of putting real pricing behind a trade account. It is worth being explicit about what that means for this service.
Published list pricing, price break ladders, MOQ, stock and lead times as shown to an anonymous visitor. Many industrial distributors publish all of this openly, which is why the category works at all.
Where a distributor publishes nothing without login, we state that during scoping and exclude them rather than substituting a different source and letting the gap go unnoticed. Roughly speaking, list pricing is available broadly enough that a useful comparison set exists without touching gated data.
And list pricing is genuinely useful even when you buy on contract: it establishes the reference from which your discount is measured, and tracking list movement tells you when to reopen a negotiation. Detail on bespoke sources in custom data extraction.
Distributors, part set and whether cross-referencing is required are scoped first, and cross-referencing is tuned against your own known equivalents during the pilot.
You send us target sites, regions, SKUs or keywords. We return a field-level schema proposal, coverage estimate and refresh recommendation — usually within two working days.
We extract a real sample from your actual targets so you can inspect field fill rates, edge cases and match quality before any commitment.
Our engineers build extractors, then wire validation rules: type checks, range checks, duplicate detection and golden-record comparison against a manually verified subset.
Feeds run at your chosen cadence and land in the warehouse or bucket you already use. Schema changes are versioned and announced before they ship.
We watch coverage drift, fill rates and source changes daily. A named engineer owns your account, and layout breaks are fixed by us — not queued for you.
JSON, JSONL, CSV, Parquet or XLSX, delivered to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, SFTP, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks or a REST/GraphQL endpoint. Webhooks fire on completion, and every batch ships with a manifest containing row counts, schema version and QA results so your pipeline can fail loudly instead of silently ingesting a bad file.
We collect published list pricing and catalogue data visible without an account. We do not create trade accounts, use client credentials, submit quote requests to extract pricing, or access gated trade pricing. Published compliance marks are captured as published with compliance_verified constant false.
These are contractual, not marketing copy. They appear in the engagement document.
| Commitment | What we hold ourselves to |
|---|---|
| Pilot turnaround | A real sample from your own sources within 24 hours of scoping, at no cost. |
| Go-live | Production collection running within 5–10 business days of sign-off. |
| Delivery punctuality | 99.5% on-schedule delivery, measured monthly and reported to you. |
| Breakage response | Source layout changes triaged same business day; critical sources inside 4 hours. |
| Data quality | Schema validation on every run plus sampled human QA before any delivery leaves us. |
| Escalation | A named engineer and an account owner, not a shared ticket queue. |
| Change requests | Field additions and source changes handled inside the retainer, not re-quoted. |
| Exit | Your historical data exported in full on request. No lock-in, no export fee. |
Plain definitions of the terms used on this page, so procurement and legal reviewers are working from the same vocabulary as your data team.
What procurement, sourcing and engineering teams ask during evaluation.
Because price is a function of quantity in this category. The same part can be 6.40 at one unit and 4.12 at 250. A dataset holding one number has picked a quantity arbitrarily and made every comparison invalid.
We deliver the full tier ladder plus MOQ and pack multiple, because a distributor quoting 3.95 with an MOQ of 100 is more expensive than one quoting 4.85 with an MOQ of 10 if you need twelve.
About 94%, with confidence scores on every link. The difficulty is suffixes — a trailing character can denote a real specification difference or just packaging.
We bias against merging, because a wrong merge produces a price comparison between two different parts and looks entirely correct. Low-confidence links arrive flagged rather than silently applied.
No. We collect published list pricing only. We do not create trade accounts, use client credentials, or submit quote requests to extract pricing.
List pricing is still useful if you buy on contract: it establishes the reference your discount is measured against, and tracking list movement tells you when to reopen a negotiation. Where a distributor publishes nothing without login, we exclude them and say so rather than substituting a different source.
Yes, as equivalence relationships rather than as the same part. A distributor's own-brand bearing may be functionally comparable to a branded one but it is not the same part.
Keeping them as a relationship lets you include or exclude equivalents deliberately. For procurement that distinction is often the whole analysis, and merging them would remove the choice.
Yes, where published — lifecycle status, not-recommended-for-new-design flags, last-buy dates and replacement part references, with change detection.
This is one of the most under-collected fields in the category and one of the most valuable, because obsolescence discovered at order time is a redesign; obsolescence discovered six months early is a purchasing decision.
Many do, which is unusual compared with consumer retail. We capture stock_qty_shown as displayed.
It remains a display figure rather than an audited inventory count, and we do not treat it as one. Combined with lead time and its basis, it is still substantially more actionable than the binary availability flag consumer retail provides.
Where publicly downloadable, yes, with revision detection. Datasheets also feed cross-referencing, since some distributors publish the manufacturer part number only inside the document.
Document volume drives storage cost, so we scope whether full capture or reference-only is needed. Most clients start with references and archive selectively.
No. Compliance marks are captured as published with compliance_verified permanently false. Verification requires documentation review and testing, not extraction.
What we do provide is a dated record of what each distributor published, including changes — which is what a compliance review starts from rather than concludes with.
We quote individually. Drivers are distributor count, part set size, whether cross-referencing is required, refresh frequency and whether datasheet capture is included.
A defined part list across several distributors at weekly refresh sits at the lighter end. Broad catalogue coverage with cross-referencing and datasheet capture sits higher. One scoping call, a free pilot on your own part list within 24 hours, then a fixed monthly quote. Request a quote.
Send us manufacturer part numbers and distributors. We return cross-referenced records with full price ladders, MOQ and lead times within 24 hours.
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