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3M

3M is a global science and manufacturing company. The 3M Partner and Supplier API provides real-time access to product, pricing, order, delivery, and invoice data for partners and suppliers, enabling automated commerce and supply chain integration.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles 3M the way a machine reads it — 66 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — 3M scores 56.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 56.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 8.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile 3M

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for 3M. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 4

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

3M Deliveries API

Track delivery status and logistics for partner orders.

3M Invoices API

Retrieve invoice status and details for billing reconciliation.

3M Orders API

Submit and track purchase orders with 3M.

3M Products API

Retrieve product catalog and pricing information.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

3M Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

3M Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

3M Finops

FINOPS

Features 6

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Product Catalog Access

Real-time access to 3M product catalog with availability and pricing information

Partner Pricing

Negotiated pricing tiers based on partner agreements

Order Management

Submit and track purchase orders programmatically

Delivery Tracking

Real-time delivery status and carrier tracking information

Invoice Retrieval

Access invoices for billing reconciliation and accounts payable automation

OAuth 2.0 Authentication

Secure bearer token authentication via client credentials OAuth 2.0 flow

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

3M Partner Supplier Api Context

14 classes · 32 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

3M API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

3M API Rules

37 rules · 13 errors · 19 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 12

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CreateOrderRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeliveryList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Delivery

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InvoiceList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Invoice

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderItem

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrderList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProductPrice

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Product

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ShippingAddress

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scroll within the panel for all 12 ·

JSON Structure 12

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Scroll within the panel for all 12 ·

Examples 12

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scroll within the panel for all 12 ·

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

3M Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

3M Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

3M Agentic Access

6 operations · 1 acting

6 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 6

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Automated Procurement

Automate purchase order creation based on inventory levels or demand signals

Supply Chain Visibility

Track order and delivery status in real-time for supply chain planning

ERP Integration

Integrate 3M product data, orders, and invoices with ERP systems

Price Comparison

Retrieve partner-negotiated pricing for procurement decision support

Accounts Payable Automation

Automatically retrieve and reconcile invoices with purchase orders

Inventory Management

Check product availability and pricing for inventory replenishment

Integrations 4

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

ERP Systems

Integrate product, order, and invoice data with SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics

Procurement Platforms

Connect with procurement management platforms for automated ordering

Accounting Systems

Sync invoices with accounting software for automated AP reconciliation

Supply Chain Platforms

Feed order and delivery data into supply chain visibility platforms

Resources

Every other property we hold for 3M — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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