Item data with evidence.
inRecipe completes the industrial item master you already have. Every value carries its source. What cannot be proven stays unfilled, with a reason.
Start with a file export and 100 to 200 of your own items.
For industrial manufacturers, process plants and technical distributors.
Nothing breaks loudly.
A part number buried in a description. A weight left at zero. A customs code copied from the last item.
The cost appears later: research behind a quote, a spare part nobody can describe well enough to sell, a classification nobody can explain.
Turn item records into something your people can use.
Fill missing item data
Manufacturer, part number, weight and technical attributes, with the evidence beside them.
Item data enrichment →Support customs classification
Proposed codes, classification reasoning and missing evidence for your team to review.
Customs classification →Prepare spare parts for sale
Consistent names and sales descriptions grounded in the specifications.
Spare parts and aftermarket →Check lifecycle and successors
Manufacturer-stated lifecycle information and named successors, with other candidates clearly distinguished.
Successors and lifecycle →The hours are the smallest number.
Research takes time. But the same missing or unreliable item data also means buying the same part under different codes, ordering the wrong variant, losing a spare-parts sale or defending a customs code without evidence.
Those costs land in different departments. They rarely appear in one total.
Buying the same part twice
Separate item codes split purchasing volume and hide stock you already hold.
Losing an order you could fulfil
A spare part cannot be found, described or quoted, so the customer buys elsewhere.
Passing the uncertainty downstream
A guessed weight becomes a freight problem. An inherited customs code becomes an audit question.
Estimate the research hours alone
Your research hours
A rough guess at three numbers shows the size of it.
→ That is about 1,700 hours a year, or 45 full-time weeks.In people: 1 FTE.
A full-time week here is 37.5 hours, and a full-time year (1 FTE) 1,650 hours.
The middle number is the one nobody actually knows. A Start measures it on 100 to 200 of your own items.
The calculator measures only the time spent searching. A Start helps show which downstream problems are present in your own item records.
Every value has a source. Every gap has a reason.
See where an answer came from, what could not be found and which questions need a person.
How inRecipe checks the evidence →See what it can prove on your own items.
Start with 100 to 200 items. In week one, review the enriched records, their sources and the gaps that remain. Then decide whether to continue.
A spreadsheet is enough. No installation is needed to see the first result.