Sourcing

Source List Design Rationale

• The navigation of sources should depend on the good or service that is being searched for, including both item characteristics and productive potential of the source. Secondly the geographic proximity and accessibility should be shown.

• A first step is to categorize sources by their product set.

General Research and Development

Amazon Supply

Wood, Metals and Plastics

Onlinemetals

Speedymetals

Discountsteel

Parker Steel

Metalsdepot

Shop4steel

Woodworkersource

Online Metal Supply

Allmetalsinc

Industrialmetalsales

Steelsolutions

Mechanical

Mcmaster-Carr

Electronics

Circuit Specialists

Pololu

Newegg

Ncix