Patent ID: 11935001
Assignee: MCMASTER-CARR SUPPLY COMPANY
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform Computer-Aided Design (CAD) operations comprising:
receiving a CAD file of an assembly drawing;
analyzing the CAD file to extract part components located within the assembly drawing;
adding the extracted part components to a part component list of the assembly drawing wherein the assembly drawing and part component list are displayable on a User Interface (UI);
filtering, based on a set of vendors sourcing the extracted part components, the part component list to identify specific vendors from the set of vendors sourcing one or more of the part components or equivalent part components from the part component list;
determining, from each of the identified specific vendors, an availability of the extracted part components, and
highlighting, within the UI, the extracted part components for the identified specific vendors having availability of the extracted part components;
generating, based on the availability of the extracted part components, vendor-specific part component lists for each vendor with the availability;
converting the vendor-specific parts component lists to purchase orders; and
communicating the purchase orders to a corresponding one of the identified specific vendors.