★★★★★ 9/10 NPS Score 9 out of 10 customers would recommend Z2 to a peer. Source: Z2 Customer Satisfaction Survey 2026
Upload a BOM and Z2 returns lifecycle stage, obsolescence forecast, change-notice history, and compliance for every line — the risk layer your PLM and ERP were never built to hold.
Lifecycle and obsolescence teams at leading OEMs run on Z2
The level of insight that it was able to give us was far superior to what we had seen before with our incumbent solution.
Parts age, suppliers shift, and SVHC lists grow. A part record sitting in your PLM is only as current as the last manual touch, which is rarely current enough.
| Task | Without Z2 | With Z2 |
|---|---|---|
| Part goes EOL mid-production | You find out when stock runs out | Forecast flags it well ahead of last-time-buy |
| A change notice with no PCN | Invisible until the part is unavailable | Detected and surfaced on the part record |
| PCNs across hundreds of suppliers | Hundreds a month, sitting in inboxes | Deduplicated and triaged by priority |
What Z2 maintains per part
Eight attributes, kept current across 1B+ components, so a BOM screen returns more than a part number and a price.
| Capability | All-in-one | PLM / ERP alone | Spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live lifecycle stage per part | Yes | No | No |
| Obsolescence date forecast | Yes | No | No |
| PCN / PDN feed, deduplicated | Yes | No | No |
| RoHS, REACH, PFAS status | Yes | Partial | No |
| Form-fit-function cross-reference engine | Yes | No | Partial |
| Composite part risk score | Yes | No | No |
| Manufacturer-name and alias normalization | Yes | Partial | No |
| Distributor pricing and lead time | Yes | No | Partial |
| Live API write-back to PLM / ERP | Yes | No | No |
Obsolescence forecast
Z2 projects an obsolescence date for every part using market demand, part activity, total active manufacturing sites, and technology roadmaps, with over 90% historical accuracy from a proprietary Z2 algorithm validated against real outcomes. 82K+ component discontinuations happen each year, and close to 30% of them arrive with no PCN at all. The forecast gives you the runway to plan a last-time-buy, a bridge buy, or a redesign before the part is gone, not after.
Change-notice triage
Across 700 manufacturers, millions of PCNs and PDNs issue every year, with three to four duplicates per change and hundreds landing on a large OEM each month. Z2 collapses the duplicates, captures the informal changes that never get a formal notice, and ranks each one P0 through P7 by its last-time-buy date. Your team works a triaged queue against the affected BOMs instead of an inbox.
Drop-in alternates
When a part ages out, Z2 returns ranked cross-references in A, B, and C tiers by form, fit, and function, with a side-by-side diff that marks each difference minor, moderate, or major. Filter alternates by country of origin, lifecycle stage, compliance status, and availability, so the part you qualify is one you can actually source. The same engine cleans dirty data first: it normalizes the six or seven manufacturer-name variants and aliases hiding in your PLM, so risk rolls up reliably.
Everything on this page is one tool: Part Risk Manager. It holds the lifecycle stage, obsolescence forecast, change-notice history, compliance status, and cross-references for every part on your BOM, and feeds them live into your PLM and ERP.
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Drag in any spreadsheet, CSV, or ERP/PLM export. Z2 reads it as-is and normalizes manufacturer names and part aliases before matching.
Every line returns its lifecycle stage, obsolescence forecast, PCN history, and RoHS, REACH, and PFAS status against 270+ regulations.
Write the live record into your PLM and ERP through the API, and set alerts so the next status change reaches you on the part record.
Z2 forecasts a projected obsolescence date for each part using market demand, part activity, active manufacturing-site count, and technology roadmaps. The model is proprietary to Z2 and holds over 90% historical accuracy, validated against real end-of-life outcomes. It is continuously refined as new lifecycle data comes in.
About 30% of component discontinuations issue no PCN at all. Z2 detects informal and undocumented changes beyond the formal notice stream, capturing 82K+ such lifecycle changes every year. That is the drift invisible to teams relying only on manufacturer notices.
No. Your PLM and ERP store the BOM and part records; Z2 supplies the live lifecycle, change, and compliance intelligence they were not built to hold. Z2 feeds systems like SAP, Arena, and Oracle Agile through the API, so records stay current instead of going stale between manual updates.
Yes. One account often holds six or seven variants of the same manufacturer name, plus part aliases and distributor numbers that break risk rollups. Z2 normalizes those into a single clean record so lifecycle and compliance risk aggregate reliably across the BOM.
Z2 covers 270+ regulations, including RoHS, REACH SVHC, PFAS, China RoHS, and TSCA, with 80% day-one BOM coverage. Because the REACH Candidate List updates twice a year, Z2 re-evaluates affected parts as lists change, so a part compliant 18 months ago is re-checked against the current list.
The same part record carries every risk, compliance, and sourcing signal Z2 tracks.
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.
Part Risk Manager
