Quote Drafterquoting
Reads the inquiry from email or WeCom, matches it to your product master and drafts the quote with its full evidence. The owner keeps the last word.
- The owner & merchandising · A quote ready for approval while the copper price is still the one you quoted.
One approval card instead of email threads, price lists and drawing lookups.
- 1An inquiry arrives by email or WeCom. Specs are extracted, each field with a confidence score.
- 2The item is matched against the product master: repeat products pull this buyer's last agreed price, new ones go to costing.
- 3Two lanes: a target-price check when the customer names a price, or a new-product estimate from the spec-library weight and today's material price, refined after sampling.
- 4A WeCom approval card shows the suggested quote with its full evidence: past quotes, cost basis, margin floor.
- 5One tap approves. A polished reply is drafted. A human sends it.
- The human gateEvery quote is approved by the owner.Every edit teaches the system his real floor.
Copper moves every day. Quotes stay locked for months.
Illustrative data, not a real customer. The system produces the numbers and your team fills the document; auto-generated documents are on the roadmap.
of gross margin at risk when quotes stay locked through a 10% copper move.
*Modeled for a typical metal-trim factory, not yet measured in production.
For a metal-trim factory, copper is around 70% of unit cost. If quotes stay locked while copper moves 10%, roughly a quarter of the gross margin is gone. Speed compounds it: a study of 2,241 firms found sub-hour responders were nearly 7 times likelier to qualify a lead (Harvard Business Review, 2011).
In November 2025, QAD acquired Kavida.ai, whose RFQ agent does for Western enterprises what this workflow does for Asian factories.