Sourcing Intelligence Terminal
Early warning · Critical industrial minerals
Watcher detects weak market, supply-chain and geopolitical signals as they emerge and automatically assesses their impact on your procurement portfolio — up to 8 weeks before they become a production risk.
Copper
HIGH72
Risk Score
Graphite
MEDIUM58
Risk Score
Gallium
CRITICAL84
Risk Score
Early warning
3 / 14 gallium suppliers captured · Sample view — your scores are based on your portfolio, live market data and configured thresholds.
“Spent a few minutes poking around the dashboard and the 8-week early signal for cobalt really stood out — feels genuinely useful for our procurement planning rather than just another price tracker.”
“Being able to see price exposure on specific minerals before they spike would have saved my team a real headache last quarter, so this is genuinely useful. The 8 week lead time sounds ambitious though, curious how reliable those signals actually turn out to be.”
“Tested the dashboard with a couple of our sourcing scenarios and the 8 week alert actually flagged a magnesium oxide supply squeeze we hadn't caught. Pricing view is clean, though the currency exposure breakdown took a minute to find.”
“The 8-week lead time on alerts is honestly impressive, feels like a real edge for anyone juggling mineral supply contracts. Liked how the portfolio view breaks down exposure in a way that's actually useful during planning meetings.”
“Tried the demo and the 8-week predictive alerts actually flagged a magnesium price move that showed up in my inbox a week later, which was a nice surprise. The portfolio exposure view is clean and easy to read.”
“Spent a few minutes poking around the dashboard and the 8-week early signal for cobalt really stood out — feels genuinely useful for our procurement planning rather than just another price tracker.”
“Being able to see price exposure on specific minerals before they spike would have saved my team a real headache last quarter, so this is genuinely useful. The 8 week lead time sounds ambitious though, curious how reliable those signals actually turn out to be.”
“Tested the dashboard with a couple of our sourcing scenarios and the 8 week alert actually flagged a magnesium oxide supply squeeze we hadn't caught. Pricing view is clean, though the currency exposure breakdown took a minute to find.”
“The 8-week lead time on alerts is honestly impressive, feels like a real edge for anyone juggling mineral supply contracts. Liked how the portfolio view breaks down exposure in a way that's actually useful during planning meetings.”
“Tried the demo and the 8-week predictive alerts actually flagged a magnesium price move that showed up in my inbox a week later, which was a nice surprise. The portfolio exposure view is clean and easy to read.”
17+
CRMA materials
6–8 wk
Predictive lead time
MOFCOM
Leading indicators
Art. 24
CRMA-ready
In action
Gallium. Neodymium. Copper. Critical materials that power modern industry.
Most procurement teams find out about supply disruptions when it's already too late.
ZRG Mineral changes that.
Our sourcing intelligence platform gives procurement teams predictive early warnings — 6 to 8 weeks before the market moves.
Not reactive. Predictive.
ZRG Mineral. Know your risk before the market does.
Why ZRG Mineral
ZRG Mineral is not a questionnaire compliance tool. We connect your supplier portfolio with live market data, leading indicators and documented due diligence — so procurement teams see risks before they become expensive.
Regulation & standards
Predictive alert
Export licence delay Beijing → gallium score expected in 3–4 weeks
Confidence 82% · Portfolio: NdFeB supplier CN
Leading indicators such as export licences, production figures and MOFCOM data are linked with historical lag models. You receive alerts 6–8 weeks before the market reacts — not only when the score has already risen.
View use cases →Coverage map
Gallium · reference list vs. your portfolio
The coverage map shows which known global suppliers are missing from your portfolio — with risk score, region and pre-drafted supplier correspondence. No more blind spots for critical minerals.
Explore terminal →We work with European industrial companies that no longer want to procure critical minerals without a data foundation. From the first portfolio analysis to field matrix and LkSG/CRMA Excel handover — personal, not anonymous.
Based in Wadern, Saarland. A direct contact instead of an anonymous ticket system.
About meData & security
Regulation · deadlines & fines
Procurement leaders act under time pressure: reporting duties, diversification targets, documented due diligence. Fines and supply failures drive decisions more than curiosity.
Act now · LkSG
Fines up to
up to 2% turnover
Next deadline
Annual report · ongoing
Audit finds missing human-rights risk analysis for rare-earth supplier — fine proceedings and supply stop until proof.
Understand LkSG fines & risk →EU duty · CRMA
Fines up to
national · millions €
Next deadline
2030 · max 65% from one country
90% graphite from China — no diversification plan. Tender fails, EV production stalls.
CRMA deadlines & scenario →Not legal advice. Obligations depend on company size, material and supply chain.
Risk Terminal
Operations cockpit for procurement risk: upload your portfolio, calculate risk scores and exposure, check market coverage, configure early warnings — plus Watcher (material network), substitution engine, compliance black box and ZRG Autopilot on the same platform.
Live view of geo risk, supply position and volatility — including trend, exposure and top threats.
Import suppliers, commodities, volumes and origin — columns are auto-detected. All scores are based on your data.
What you don't see: compare against known global suppliers — gaps, potential alternatives and correspondence templates.
Supplier risk heatmap plus commodity-filtered news — negative market signals feed into early warnings.
Graph and map: portfolio, tier-2, ports, vessels, freight routes, CPO action items — sanctions screening on portfolio import.
Model outage scenarios and see estimated financial impact on your procurement.
Early warnings
Reactive alerts measure score trends in your portfolio. Predictive alerts use external leading indicators (export licences, customs data, port statistics, weather, government speeches) with a historical lag model — weeks before the market reacts.
You upload your supplier portfolio (CSV/XLSX). Alerts apply only to materials and suppliers in your procurement data.
Once per day the system ingests leading indicator feeds, calculates risk scores and stores snapshots — plus market pulse checks.
Reactive: alert when score ≥ threshold and trend ≥ 5% in 48h. Predictive: alert when a leading indicator fires and lag model predicts impact within 3–8 weeks.
Leading indicator detected → lag model calculates expected score increase in 3–8 weeks — before it appears in your portfolio data.
Notification via email, Slack, Teams or webhook — reactive (trend) or predictive (indicator + expected impact window).
Reactive: “Your score rose 34% in 48h.” — fast response to visible deterioration.
Predictive: “Export licence delay Beijing 12 days ago → gallium score increase expected in 3–4 weeks.” — know before the market prices it.
Reactive: “Exposure +34% in 48h.” · Predictive: “Export licence delay Beijing 12 days ago → gallium score expected in 3–4 weeks (confidence 82%).”
Weekly CPO briefing (Monday): executive PDFs of your portfolio materials to the configured CPO email — risk score, compliance field status and supplier count at a glance.
Schedule: risk check daily at 06:00 UTC · weekly briefing Mondays 05:00 UTC (Vercel cron). Test alerts anytime via “Send test” in early warning settings.
Watcher
Your supply chain as a network: portfolio suppliers, tier-2 upstream, ports, vessels and production — in the graph and on the map, with risk signals and CPO action items.
New: map view with freight routes (green/yellow/red), CPO dashboard with action items, tier-2 chain, sanctions screening on import and graph/map toggle in the terminal.
Graph
Map
Portfolio, reference supply chain, port index, trade flows, sanctions and market signals — one picture, not a data silo.
Concentration, port congestion, sanctions exposure and predictive windows — visible in the graph and on the map.
The same chain spatially: tier-2 → port → vessel → EU port → supplier → production. Colour-coded routes, pulse only on issues.
Mines, refineries and export ports from the CRMA reference catalog — upstream dependencies visible even without full supplier reporting.
State hypotheses, gather evidence, save investigations — for sourcing, legal and management.
Weekly snapshots — when alerts, score changes and signals first appeared in the chain.
Action items, chain KPIs and direct jumps to map, network and exposure — at /terminal/watcher.
Graph and map update via SSE — new signals without reload, including after portfolio import.
Coverage map
For each material in the ZRG material library, the coverage map compares your portfolio against a reference list of known mines, refineries and processors worldwide — showing gaps and potential alternatives.
Per material you see how many documented suppliers are in your portfolio — and which reference suppliers are still missing (fuzzy match on company names).
Donut chart per material: how many reference suppliers you already have in your portfolio — and how many are missing.
Uncaptured suppliers with region, estimated risk score and “NOT IN PORTFOLIO” badge.
Suppliers with lower risk than your worst current supplier are highlighted in green.
One click generates a pre-filled supplier request to add them to your portfolio — same pattern as compliance validation.
Per-material PDF: market risk, top threats, and unmatched reference suppliers — for procurement and management.
Compliance validation
CoA, ESG reports, export licences: required fields as a PASS/FAIL matrix per supplier. Export as a regulatory Excel pack (LkSG + CRMA).
Field matrix · sample
Intake · Scan · Matrix · Excel
Upload a document, extract fields, see gaps, generate Excel for officer handover.
Avg ESG score
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After first upload
Document validation
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After first upload
Suppliers with matrix
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After first upload
Category · Material-first
Free initial analysis of your material portfolio — personal onboarding, no self-service checkout.