★★★★★ 9/10 NPS Score 9 out of 10 customers would recommend Z2 to a peer. Source: Z2 Customer Satisfaction Survey 2026
One normalized source for 1B+ components: parametrics, lifecycle, compliance, risk, alternates, and supplier data, ready to feed your PLM through the API.
Engineering and sourcing teams at leading OEMs run on Z2
Z2 has been a valuable tool allowing our organization to avoid supply driven product redesigns and, alternatively, massive inventory over-purchasing. Manually gathering and analyzing market data is incredibly labor intensive. Z2 has allowed our team to react quickly and regularly to early warning signs.
Manufacturer sites, distributor catalogs, datasheets, and compliance databases each hold a fragment. Stitch them together by hand and the data is stale before the BOM ships.
| Task | Without Z2 | With Z2 |
|---|---|---|
| A part's full profile | Hunt across sites, datasheets, portals | Parametrics to risk in one record |
| Compliance and lifecycle data | Distributor catalogs carry neither | RoHS, REACH, and EOL forecast attached |
| Feeding your PLM | Manual reconciliation, no clean feed | Normalized data through one API |
Distributor databases answer "what is this part?" Z2 answers what it means for your product, sourcing plan, and risk exposure, with these dimensions on each MPN.
| Capability | All-in-one | Distributor catalogs | Manual collection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normalized parametric data, 1,000+ types | Yes | Partial | Partial |
| Lifecycle status and EOL forecast | Yes | No | No |
| Compliance rollup across 270+ regulations | Yes | No | Partial |
| Form-fit-function alternates | Yes | Partial | No |
| Multi-factor part risk scoring | Yes | No | No |
| Supplier and manufacturing-site data | Yes | No | Partial |
| COO / HTS / tariff layer | Yes | No | Partial |
| BOM-level health analysis | Yes | No | No |
| API into PLM, ERP, and BOM tools | Yes | No | No |
One Source
Z2 is built from a proprietary, normalized database covering 1B+ off-the-shelf components across 1,000+ commodity types. Supplier and manufacturing-site relationships are verified and mapped from the database itself, not pulled from surveys, so coverage is there on day one across 200K+ sites. Every part arrives in one schema: same fields, same structure, ready to query.
Always Current
A BOM healthy at launch turns high-risk within 18 months as parts go obsolete and rules change. Z2's PCN/PDN feed captures formal and informal changes, the lifecycle algorithm forecasts end-of-life with 90%+ accuracy from a proprietary Z2 algorithm, and SVHC candidate-list updates land biannually. The data stays current so the drift surfaces while you can still act on it.
Built To Integrate
Z2 feeds normalized part data straight into SAP, Arena, and Agile, so your BOM and PLM read from one source instead of a dozen reconciled spreadsheets. Pull parametrics, lifecycle, compliance, and risk through the REST API into your own internal tooling, or work in the Z2 interface. Either way, it is the same database behind the same fields.
Drop in any spreadsheet, CSV, or ERP export. Z2 matches every line to the database as-is, no column mapping.
Each part returns parametrics, lifecycle, compliance, risk, alternates, and supplier data in a single normalized record.
Push results into your PLM and BOM tools, or pull them through the REST API into whatever you build.
Z2 maintains a proprietary, normalized database of 1B+ off-the-shelf components, not an aggregation of distributor catalogs. Supplier and manufacturing-site relationships are verified and mapped from the database itself, without supplier surveys, so coverage is there on day one across 200K+ sites.
Catalogs show stock, price, and datasheets. They carry no lifecycle forecasting, no multi-factor risk scoring, no compliance rollup, and no COO/HTS/tariff layer. Z2 adds all of that and rolls it up to BOM-level analysis, so you see what a part means for your product, not just what it costs.
Yes. The REST API delivers normalized part data into SAP, Arena, and Agile, and into internal BOM and risk tooling you build yourself. Because every record uses the same schema, there is no manual reconciliation between sources.
Z2's end-of-life forecast runs better than 90% historical accuracy, using a proprietary algorithm validated against real end-of-life outcomes. The PCN/PDN feed also captures both formal and informal changes, so obsolescence surfaces before stock runs out.
Coverage starts the day you upload a BOM: every line matches against the Z2 database and returns its full record without column mapping. Typical implementation, including PLM integration and the REST API, runs two to four weeks.
Every dimension Z2 holds on a component, queryable across your whole BOM.
components tracked
manufacturing sites mapped
regulations covered
Real supply chain expertise, not just a support ticket queue.
Oliver DeThier
Director of Customer Success
Trusted by leading
OEMs worldwide.
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