Luminovo opens its supply chain platform to AI assistants
German software company Luminovo is opening its platform for electronics quoting and procurement to AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Microsoft Copilot. EMS providers and electronics manufacturers will be able to query their own supply chain data in plain language, and build their own tools on top of it.
The connection uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for linking AI assistants to business software, according to a press release from Luminovo. Through it, an assistant can read a company’s data in Luminovo, such as BOMs, quotes and supplier contracts, together with live market prices, lead times and supplier information. A cost estimator at an EMS provider could, for example, ask the assistant to price a customer’s BOM using current supplier contracts and flag parts with lead times of more than 12 weeks.
Teams can also turn recurring questions into their own apps and agents, without coding or an IT project. Luminovo’s examples include an agent that checks all active BOMs for end-of-life parts and lead times every week, and a tool that prepares supplier negotiations.
“EMS providers and manufacturers work with Luminovo in the AI assistants they already use and build their own apps for their processes. Every company gets its own Luminovo, shaped around the people who build electronics,” says Sebastian Schaal, co-founder and managing director of Luminovo.
Luminovo points to its own customer results as evidence. According to the company, EMS provider Omega EMS can now quote a complex BOM in about 20 minutes instead of half a day. Luminovo also says that, in its own business cases, electronics manufacturers using the platform typically save 3–5% of their electronics spend.
The MCP connection is available in beta to selected customers on request, starting at electronica in Munich this week.
