How ready is your critical materials supply chain?
Take a 5-minute assessment to identify gaps in material traceability, supplier visibility, foreign exposure, alternative sourcing, and continuous monitoring. Get a readiness score, maturity stage, priority actions, and a comparison against peers.
Critical-material risk is no longer buried inside procurement.
Government customers, prime contractors, boards, and operating teams increasingly expect suppliers to know where critical materials come from, which dependencies create risk, what alternatives exist, and how mitigation actions are being managed.
From unknown exposure to continuous resilience.
A four-stage journey. Each stage has substages that describe where an organization is inside it.
- React · 0–19Risks are discovered only after a shortage, supplier failure, price spike, customer inquiry, or regulatory event.
- Assess · 20–39The organization understands its major readiness gaps and highest-risk dependencies.
- Illuminate · 40–59The organization connects critical materials, components, suppliers, ownership, and geographic exposure.
- Improve · 60–74The organization actively reduces identified risk and strengthens sourcing resilience.
- Monitor · 75–89Critical-material readiness becomes continuous instead of periodic.
- Optimize · 90–100Critical-material resilience becomes a source of operating advantage and customer trust.
The assessment output is a working document.
Every response feeds a readiness score, a maturity stage, and a prioritized action list your team can start on Monday. Share the PDF internally, take it to a supplier review, or send it to your board.
- Overall readiness score (0–100)
- Current maturity stage with next-stage roadmap
- Five sub-scores across the readiness framework
- Top three gaps and top three strengths
- 30-day, 90-day, and 6-month action plan
- Peer benchmark and downloadable PDF report
Every capability we mention is labelled by availability so you know what you can rely on today.
- Alternate supplier identification
- Geopolitical news and supply intelligence
- Supplier and foreign-entity screening using third-party sources
- Critical-material intelligence
- High-level supplier and geographic risk analysis
- BOM reformatting into DoD-accepted or customer-required structures
- FOCI screening procedure templates and documentation
- Expanded mitigation-plan generation
- EO-aligned reporting language
- Customer-uploaded supplier-list analysis
- End-to-end BOM traceability across every tier
- Complete sub-tier supplier illumination
- Automated evidence validation across all supplier tiers
- Full ownership-chain verification
- Continuous qualification-status synchronization
From large primes to Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers — the same readiness questions apply.
Large primes have dedicated compliance, procurement, and supply-chain teams and use XTRIUM to unify visibility across programs. Specialist Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers use XTRIUM to identify critical-material exposure, find alternate sources, organize supplier evidence, and answer customer questionnaires faster. The framework is the same at every tier.
- Program-level visibility for primes across dozens of platforms
- Fragmented supplier data unified into one supplier map
- Pressure from multiple prime contractors flowing down to Tier 2/3
- Dependence on foreign or single-source materials at any tier
- Limited visibility below Tier 1 — where most risk lives
- Difficulty finding qualified domestic and allied alternatives
- Customer and government questionnaires arriving faster than teams can answer them
Outside-in estimates for leading suppliers.
Explore how ~20 specialist defense and advanced-manufacturing suppliers appear to be positioned on critical-material readiness — based on publicly available information.
The same capabilities support defense, semiconductor, aerospace, automotive, energy, and advanced-manufacturing organizations across the United States, Europe, India, Brazil, and allied markets.
Know your exposure before your customer asks.
Thirteen questions. Five minutes. A prioritized readiness score, maturity stage, and action plan.