Nobody owns the next step
RFQs wait in inboxes because assignment, status, and missing information are not visible to the team.
Manufacturing RFQ workflow
Move the RFQ forward without losing the decisions behind it.
Control manufacturing RFQ intake, ownership, requirements, supplier responses, revisions, approvals, customer decisions, and quote outcomes in one workflow.
Where RFQs lose time
The queue slows down at handoffs and exceptions.
Clarifications lose context
Customer answers and supplier responses become detached from the file revision or cost assumption they changed.
The final quote has no trail
When a buyer questions price or scope, the shop has to reconstruct the decision from email and spreadsheets.
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Structure intake before estimating starts
Customer intake, email automation, uploaded CAD, drawings, specifications, and BOMs become one RFQ record. Extracted requirements keep their source and confidence so the estimator can confirm what controls the job.
Named ownership, due dates, status, complexity, bulk updates, and dashboard views make queue risk visible. Missing inputs can drive a clear waiting-on-customer state instead of silently stopping work.
- Customer intake page
- Email and file capture
- Requirement evidence
- Assignment and queue visibility
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Coordinate suppliers with approval
Supplier recommendations and draft requests remain under estimator control. Signed supplier portal links collect price, lead time, notes, and attachments without granting access to the internal workspace.
Follow-up events and responses stay attached to the RFQ. Incomplete or stale supplier inputs can block quote approval, while received costs and lead times roll into the current plan.
- Draft supplier requests
- Approval-gated sending
- Signed response portals
- Cost and lead-time rollup
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Finish the commercial loop
The approved customer quote can present revision-bound quantity and lead-time options. A signed buyer portal records acceptance or decline, the selected option, buyer identity, and awarded amount.
Won, lost, no-decision, value, throughput, and estimator workload analytics turn quote history into operating context. Export packages retain the job evidence for audit or handoff.
- Commercial options
- Buyer accept or decline
- Win and loss outcomes
- Auditable export package
Straight answers
How the workflow handles ownership and change.
Can customers submit RFQs directly?
Yes. A public intake route can collect customer and job information with controlled upload limits.
Can suppliers see internal notes?
No. Supplier portals expose the scoped request fields needed for a response, not the internal estimator workspace.
Does it track win and loss?
Yes. Quote outcomes and awarded value feed customer, material, process, and estimator analytics.
Follow one real RFQ
Map the job from inbox to buyer decision.
We’ll identify where ownership, missing inputs, supplier waits, revisions, or approvals consume the elapsed time.