What is the sourcing scenario comparison?
The sourcing scenario comparison view lets you compare scenarios without switching back and forth. It highlights price deltas, demand differences, and matched line item details across scenarios.
This view is available in Sourcing for all users in project sourcing.
How to open the comparison view
In Sourcing, use the floating toolbar to select scenarios:
Pick 1 scenario as your baseline
Add up to 2 reference scenarios
Your selection is saved per RFQ for the duration of your session.
What you can compare
The comparison view has two tabs: Line Items, Supplier, Manufacturer and Demands.
Line Items tab
Shows matched line items across scenarios with color-coded price deltas. You can filter and sort by supplier, status, price changes, quantities, and more.
As an example, you can sort/filter prices by absolute and relative saving:
Supplier & manufacturer tab
These two tabs give you visual chart breakdowns of spend across your scenarios, grouped by supplier or manufacturer. Each tab offers two views you can toggle between:
Volume: a horizontal bar chart showing total spend per supplier or manufacturer. The baseline is shown in green, reference scenarios in blue and violet, sorted from highest to lowest volume.
Price changes: a diverging bar chart showing what increased and what decreased per supplier or manufacturer, with the net change and percentage annotated directly on the bars, sorted by biggest movers.
Any filters you set on the Line Items tab carry over to the charts, so you can narrow down to a specific assembly and see the spend breakdown update instantly. Tooltips show the baseline volume alongside each reference scenario's increase, decrease, and net change. The legend is clickable so you can isolate one reference scenario to compare against the baseline.
Demands tab
Shows the demands in a three-column layout (baseline, reference A, reference B).
A demand defines what you want to source in a scenario. Each sourcing scenario can include one or more demands, and each demand is one of two types:
Assembly demand: e.g., 10× iPhone (source all components needed to build the assembly)
Part demand: e.g., 10× a specific MPN or IPN (source a specific part directly)
Comparison tags help you see how demands relate across scenarios:
In all: present in every scenario
Baseline only: present only in the baseline scenario
Identical: matches the baseline exactly
Diff qty: present in both, but with a different quantity
New: present only in the reference scenario
💡 Because scenarios can contain different demands, they can also contain different sets of line items. Only line items that match across scenarios can be compared in the Line Items tab.
How volume and savings are calculated
Volume is the total purchase price summed across comparable lines only (not the full scenario total).
A line is comparable when:
Both baseline and reference have a sourced solution, and
The line has a valid total purchase price
Unmatched lines (or lines without a price) are excluded.
Savings and cost increases are calculated from the same comparable set. Only visible rows are included. Rows filtered out in the UI are excluded from the calculation.
Export your comparison
The sourcing comparison can be exported as an excel file by clicking on the 3 dots next to the "sort" button:
Difference from the version history
The comparison view uses live data. This differs from version history, which is based on frozen snapshots taken at a point in time.
If you want to compare the current state of scenarios, use the comparison view.
Current limitations
This first version focuses on viewing and filtering. The following features are not yet available:
Actions such as moving offers or bulk operations
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