For stamping, forming, and contract manufacturers: digital colleagues handle quote calculation, order entry, and post-costing, while your team keeps the sign-off.
Every inquiry comes with a new DXF or STEP drawing, and someone has to manually read out sheet thickness, grade, blank size, and setup, then transfer it all into the calculation.
Steel and sheet metal prices fluctuate constantly, but quotes and running calculations are rarely recalculated automatically and get signed off at outdated prices.
Drawing revision, bill of materials, and delivery date all need to be transferred from the inquiry into the ERP, and discrepancies between inquiry and order confirmation often only surface on the shop floor.
Comparing planned versus actual setup time, material use, and scrap per order is tedious, so it rarely gets done, and the learning curve for the next calculation is lost.
There are surely spots in this process that are unique to you, where time is lost every day. Those are exactly the ones we take on.
The agent prepares, you sign off.
Reads incoming drawings, determines material, sheet thickness, and blank size, and proposes a calculation that the account handler reviews and approves.
Regularly reconciles steel and sheet metal prices against current market data and flags quotes or running calculations that should be re-checked.
Transfers order data and drawing revision from the inquiry into the ERP, checks for discrepancies against the original inquiry, and creates the order for sign-off.
Compares planned versus actual values for setup time, material use, and scrap, and prepares the variance report for the calculation.
Requests availability and pricing for sheet stock and coils from your regular suppliers and provides purchasing with a side-by-side comparison.
The individual checks, exceptions and rules that apply only at your company, the digital employee handles them just the same. That is the tailored fit.
One pattern, many materials.
Specification or drawing in, pricing research, calculation, quote out. Based on your prices and your calculation history, with human sign-off on the margin.
Checks the incoming order against your original quote, including all company-specific nuances. Discrepancies are flagged before they surface on the shop floor.
Capture inquiry, prepare calculation, create quote, align, follow up.
Orders from email and PDF into the ERP, plus capacity-based scheduling.
Create, check, and link invoices and delivery notes, including customs documents.
Creates and maintains manuals and instructions from CAD, bills of materials, and legacy documents.
Capture incoming invoices, check against purchase orders, prepare account assignment.
Capture complaints, categorize, create case, prepare standard resolutions.
Less time spent on quotes and post-costing, more time for the orders that really need attention.
In 30 minutes we'll show you the concrete lever in one of your processes.