RFQ Automator reads an incoming request for quote, finds the parts you have quoted before, costs the job from your own routings and machine rates, and drafts a price your team can check line by line.
One RFQ example: read, matched to past quotes, costed from your routings and priced against your win history (if available). Step through it.
You have quoted parts like this before. But the old quote is in someone’s inbox, the routing is in the ERP, the machine rates are in a spreadsheet and the reason you lost last time is in a sales rep’s head.
So estimators rebuild each quote by hand. Responses take days, two people price the same part differently, and complex low-volume work gets underpriced because nobody has time to cost it properly.
“What did we quote for a similar part last time, and did we win?”
“What does this part actually cost us to make at 500 or 5,000 pieces?”
“Is this price protecting our margin?”
Illustrative example: one machined bracket, 2,000 pieces. In a pilot we measure your own baseline in the first two weeks.
Matches on material, size, tolerances and process across every quote you have sent.
Machine time, setup, material and outside processes, at your own rates and batch sizes.
Shows where your price wins and where it loses, per customer and part family.
Each cost line links back to the routing, rate or quote it came from.
We read past RFQs and quotes, won/lost outcomes, routings, machine rates and supplier prices from your ERP, CRM and shared drives. Your systems stay as they are.
A new RFQ comes in. The module reads it, finds the closest past parts, builds the cost and proposes a price band with its reasoning.
Your estimator checks the lines, adjusts and approves. Nothing reaches a customer without that sign-off.
RFQ Automator is a module on the Epicz platform. Connections set up for it are reused by every other module.
For a catalogue of standard products, a CPQ tool may be enough. The more custom, engineered-to-order and low-volume work you quote, the more each RFQ depends on history nobody has time to look up.
An 8-week pilot on one product family, measured against KPIs we agree up front: time to quote, price accuracy against actual cost, and hit rate. Clear go/no-go at week 8.
Load past quotes and costing data, and measure today’s turnaround and hit rate.
Draft every new RFQ alongside your estimators and compare the two.
Send reviewed drafts to customers and measure the result.
No. We read the data we need from them. Your systems stay as they are.
Yes. That is the usual starting point. We map what you have and fill gaps during the pilot.
Your team. Every draft shows its sources and reasoning.
That is where it helps most. It costs each job from routings and rates rather than a fixed price list.
Drafts on live RFQs from week 3 of a pilot, and a measured result by week 8.
Fixed-price pilot; contact us.
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