Country-of-origin documentation
Can you prove where your components come from?
MapleBOM identifies the components with missing or unverified country of origin, and prioritizes the gaps that matter most — so a job that feels unbounded becomes a short, ranked list.
MapleBOM reports only what your file establishes. It never infers origin from a supplier, a manufacturer or a distributor, and it never guesses.
BOM uploads are analyzed transiently in memory and are not retained. How this works
The problem
Origin documentation is a per-line problem that gets asked as a per-product question.
Nobody asks about one component. They ask about the product, and answering means resolving hundreds of lines held across a distributor portal, a broker's file and somebody's inbox. The work is not hard, it is just unbounded — until you know which lines actually matter.
The gap follows how you buy
Parts bought direct from a manufacturer usually carry an origin. Parts bought through a distributor usually do not.
Blank and "various" are different problems
One means nobody asked. The other means somebody did, and the answer was more than one country. Only one of them has somebody to chase.
It is finite, once it is ranked
Unverified origin feels like an endless task because it is never sorted by importance. Sorted by spend, it is usually a short list of suppliers.
The core output
Turn a percentage into a work list.
MapleBOM ranks every unresolved component by the money attached to it, and names the handful of suppliers who between them can close most of the gap.
In the sample analysis, 480 components have no established country of origin — but 10 supplier conversations would account for 80% of that exposure.
Unresolved origin, ranked by spend
Sample| Component | Supplier | Annual purchasing |
|---|---|---|
| Skid frame assembly, welded and m… | Ironwood Structural Compo… | $157,233 |
| Variable frequency drive, 75 kW 4… | Trillium Automation Supply | $69,707 |
| Servo drive, 1.5 kW dual axis | Trillium Automation Supply | $61,917 |
| Guarding package, perimeter fence… | Bluewater Enclosure Syste… | $60,869 |
| Panel air conditioner, 1200 W 480… | Meridian Electrical Supply | $51,269 |
| Conveyor module, 3 m belt section… | Ironwood Structural Compo… | $49,693 |
What you get
A complete provenance profile of one product, in about ten seconds.
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Overview
Components, suppliers, total purchasing, and how much of it has an established country of origin — by line count and by dollar.
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Country exposure
Purchasing attributed to Canada, the United States, China, Mexico and every other origin your file names, plus the unverified share.
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Provenance gaps
Unresolved components ranked by spend, and the suppliers who hold the answers, so the work list is finite.
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Supplier concentration
Top supplier, top five and top ten as a share of purchasing, with a concentration index and each supplier's origin coverage.
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Foreign dependencies
The largest components and suppliers behind each non-Canadian origin. Presented as information, not as a verdict.
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Data quality
Exactly how we read your columns, what we could not interpret, and which figures are affected by missing data.
What MapleBOM will not do
Provenance is only useful if it is true. These are the rules the analysis follows, without exception:
- We never infer country of origin from a supplier, manufacturer, distributor or company nationality. Buying a part from a Canadian distributor does not make it Canadian.
- Anything the file does not establish is reported as Unknown / Unverified, with the reason it is unresolved.
- Country values we cannot interpret are surfaced, not silently dropped or guessed.
- V0 makes no CUSMA, tariff, Canadian-content or Buy Canadian determination. Those require rules and evidence this tool does not yet have.
- Facts you supplied, figures we calculated, and information nobody has are labelled separately throughout.
On the roadmap
What would you like to do next?
None of these are built. They are in private beta, and they are here so you can tell us which one actually matters — we will run it by hand for one product in the meantime.
Resolving unverified origins
Track evidence and supplier attestations for the components nobody can currently vouch for.
Resolve unknown origins → Private betaTariff exposure
Understand which components and purchasing categories may be affected by changing tariffs.
Calculate tariff exposure → Private betaCanadian content and CUSMA
Identify documentation gaps and the components that would need deeper qualification.
Analyze Canadian content → Private betaCanadian supplier alternatives
Discover foreign components that may have Canadian manufacturing or sourcing alternatives.
Find Canadian suppliers →None of these are built. Nothing on this page produces tariff, CUSMA, Canadian-content or Buy Canadian results, and no figure elsewhere in MapleBOM is derived from them. Following one of these links tells us you want it, and offers you the analysis by hand in the meantime.
Built in Canada
An independent project.
MapleBOM is built by Tyson Hamilton, a Canadian software engineer building better trade and supply-chain tools for Canadian manufacturers.
It is early, and deliberately narrow: it reports what your bill of materials establishes, and says plainly what it does not.
Questions, feedback, or interested in trying MapleBOM with your own data?
hello@maplebom.caWant us to resolve the unknowns?
We are working with a small number of Canadian manufacturers on deeper BOM provenance and supply-chain analysis. If unverified origin is costing you time, we would like to hear about it.