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You have Tacto for suppliers. Now you need a picture for critical materials.

Tacto solves supplier workflow, questionnaires and REACH/RoHS-oriented compliance. ZRG Mineral does not solve the same problem — and is not meant to. ZRG delivers the material intelligence layer: which CRMA-14 commodities in your BOM drive € exposure, which MOFCOM signals lead the market by 6–8 weeks, and which coverage gaps your portfolio has.

Not ZRG vs. Tacto — ZRG alongside Tacto

The most common objection: “We already have a supplier tool.” Correct — and that is why ZRG is not positioned as a replacement. Tacto manages supplier relationships and compliance workflows. ZRG answers a different question: Which material at which volume would stop your production — and what of that do you not see today?

What Tacto does well (and ZRG does not)

  • Supplier onboarding, ratings and questionnaire workflows
  • REACH/RoHS-oriented documentation and supplier compliance
  • Broad coverage across supplier categories

ZRG is deliberately ❌ here — we do not replace supplier workflow. See the full competitive matrix.

What ZRG adds

  • Material score per commodity (gallium ≠ copper ≠ neodymium) with ZRG risk score 0–100
  • Portfolio exposure in € — for CFO, CRMA audit and board readouts
  • Predictive alerts from MOFCOM, export licences and lag indicators
  • Watcher: intelligence graph and supply chain map for tier-2/3 visibility on critical minerals
  • Compliance Black Box: hash-chained audit trail for CRMA/LkSG evidence

When the combination makes sense

Not “every procurement team”. Teams with:

  • Sector: automotive (e-drive, power electronics), semiconductors, wind — CRMA-14 materials in the BOM
  • Materials: gallium, neodymium, germanium, graphite, rare earths — not generic steel/sheet
  • Trigger: CRMA audit deadline, last season's supply gap, CFO asking for material exposure, export stop without documented alternative

Without concrete pain, nobody buys a second tool. “Nice to have next to Tacto” kills the deal — that is why we qualify pilots on exactly these signals.

Typical flow

  1. Tacto remains system of record for suppliers and questionnaires
  2. Portfolio upload (CSV/XLSX) into ZRG — material scores and coverage map in week 1
  3. Read-out: € exposure, blindspots, CRMA fields — enterprise quote or stop

Next step

30-day pilot on real portfolio data — not a sandbox demo. View pilot programme.

ZRG Mineral

Pilot with portfolio data

Risk Terminal, Coverage Map, predictive alerts and Compliance Black Box for critical industrial minerals — built for European procurement teams.

Pilot with portfolio data