How Shubh Tradex quotes the exact compressor part

A visual parts finder, wired into Hummz inventory and quotation management. Quoting that took days now takes hours, and the integration went live in one week.

At a glance

The short version

Shubh Tradex sells OEM spare parts for CNG compressors, where a buyer has to identify the exact component before anyone can price it. Hummz paired a visual, drawing-based parts finder with its inventory and quotation management, so a part picked on a drawing arrives as a quote request already tied to the right component. Quoting that took days now takes hours, and the integration went live in one week.

The challenge

Quoting a spare part is harder than quoting most products. A buyer doesn't want a price for "a valve." They need the exact component on their compressor model. Get it wrong, and the result is a re-quote, a stalled decision, or a buyer who moves to whoever answers faster. Compressor downtime is expensive, so procurement teams weigh speed as heavily as price.

For Shubh Tradex, that pressure sat on every request. Their buyers are technical. And the old way of getting to a price was slow. The team checked the physical availability of the required parts, hunted for manufacturer-approved alternates when a part was short, and only then quoted. That could take a few days.

A manual bridge sat on top of it, too. Once a part was found, its number was re-typed into a separate form, then confirmed over a round of back-and-forth before a quote could be drafted.

The solution

Shubh Tradex came to Hummz with a specific ask. Add a spare-parts capability to their existing portal, so customers could identify and request quotes without leaving the site.

Rather than build a parts-visualization tool from scratch, the Hummz team researched the space and found spareparts.live, a visual, drawing-based parts selector built for how technical buyers actually shop. It became the front end of the Spare Parts Finder. A buyer navigates a visual breakdown of the compressor, selects the exact component, and knows the part is right before a quote is even requested.

Behind the finder, Hummz manages the inventory. Stock now lives in the system instead of a manual check. Manufacturer-approved alternates are specified in the catalog, so when a part is short, a buyer surfaces a cleared substitute through Hummz's related-products feature rather than a separate hunt.

Then the part that makes it a working sales tool. The selected component flows straight into Hummz quotation management, so it lands as a quote request already tied to the correct part. No re-typing part numbers. No back-and-forth to confirm the selection.

Working off spareparts.live's API, and with excellent support from the spareparts.live team, the Hummz team had the integration live within one week.

The results

Live in 1 week · Quoting cut from days to hours · 52% fewer re-quotes

The biggest change is speed. Pricing a request used to take a few days of stock checks and alternate-part hunting. With inventory and approved alternates in the system, that same work now happens in hours. Since launch, [N] quote requests have come through the Spare Parts Finder.

The rest of the gains are structural. A drawing-driven catalog removes the ambiguity that leads to quoting the wrong component, so fewer requests come back for a re-quote. There's no dead time between "found it" and "quoted it," because the catalog and inventory feed quotation directly. And for buyers racing compressor downtime, a quote that starts moving the moment a part is identified is a real edge.

The collaboration didn't stop at one integration. Hummz and spareparts.live are now exploring an expansion of the partnership into the Indian market.

"Our buyers know their compressor, not our part numbers. Now they point to the component on the drawing, and the request reaches us already tied to the right part. Pricing that used to take us days is down to hours."

— Sumit Kochhar, Shubh Tradex

For other technical and industrial sellers

If your buyers have to identify the right component before they can get a price - machine parts, technical equipment, anything tied to a model number or a drawing - the lesson isn't "use spareparts.live." It's that finding the part, checking stock, and quoting it shouldn't be three disconnected steps with manual work between them. Every handoff is where deals slip.

Hummz inventory and quotation management is built to sit behind exactly this kind of front end, a visual parts finder or a configurator, so the moment a buyer identifies what they need, a quote is already moving.