In many organizations, procurement is brought into the product development process too late, long after key design decisions have already been made. By that point, cost, risk, and supplier constraints are already locked in.

Design-to-Source (D2S) challenges that model.

Because when procurement operates too far downstream, teams are forced to react to constraints. Design-to-Source shifts procurement upstream, enabling better decisions, fewer delays, and stronger collaboration across engineering, finance, and supply chain stakeholders.

This Buyer’s Guide, created in collaboration with Samsung SDS Caidentia, explores how leading organizations are embedding procurement earlier in design and development when decisions are still flexible and outcomes can still be shaped.

Download this guide to gain insight into:

• What Design-to-Source is and why it’s emerging as a critical procurement capability
• How earlier procurement involvement improves cost, risk, and supply chain resilience
• The role of AI (especially agentic AI) in enabling real-time, execution-driven workflows
• Key capabilities to look for when evaluating Design-to-Source solutions
• Common challenges and mistakes to avoid during adoption

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