Every RFQ starts from scratch
Each request for quote means digging through past jobs and checking today's raw material prices by hand.
AI and automation for manufacturers.
Quoting, order entry and supplier email eat hours in a growing manufacturer. We automate the repeat work and use AI where emails and documents need reading, so quotes go out the same day and your team stays on the work that needs them.
Free, no obligation. The report is yours to keep.
The Simp Company
AI & automation audit
- Prepared for
- A manufacturing business
- Prepared by
- The Simp Company
Where to start
- Retyping purchase orders into the ERPAutomate
- Answering “where's my order?” emailsAI
- Month-end reconciliation across 3 sheetsFix first
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Where the hours actually go.
Purchase orders retyped into the ERP
Orders arrive by email and get keyed into the system by hand, line by line.
Supplier questions pile up
Routine vendor and supplier questions sit in the inbox right next to the ones that matter.
“Where's my order?” all day
Customers chase order status by email, and someone looks each one up by hand.
What we take off your team's plate.
The task
Once it's handled
RFQs
Drafted as quotes from past orders and live material prices, ready to approve.
AI, checked by a personPurchase orders
Entered into your ERP without anyone retyping them.
AutomatedOrder status emails
Answered from live order data. A person approves each reply.
AI, checked by a personSupplier questions
Routine ones answered; the rest passed on with the context.
AI, checked by a personWeekly numbers
Compiled and in everyone's inbox on Monday morning.
AutomatedLow-stock alerts
Sent to purchasing on fixed rules, before anything runs out.
Automated
Not everything should be automated.
Every task we look at goes through the same three questions before anything gets built. If a task shouldn't exist, or the process around it is broken, we tell you that instead.
Three questions for every task
- 1Does it need doing at all?
- 2Does the process work today?
- 3Are the rules the same every time?
- Leave it
Stop doing it
The best fix is no work at all.
- Fix first
Fix the process first
Sort out how it's done before anything gets built.
- Automate
Automate it
Same steps every time, so software runs it end to end.
- AI
Use AI, with a person checking
AI drafts the work; a person approves it.
How it works, start to finish.
- 1
A free AI audit
A 30-minute call, then a written report in 1-2 days: the repeat work we found, the right fix for each task, and where to start.
- 2
We build it
On the tools you already pay for, in stages, so you see something working early. You get the price up front, before anything is built.
- 3
We keep it running
We fix anything that breaks and adjust it as your business changes, for as long as you want us to. Everything we build is yours.
Work we've already done.
Manufacturing
AI, checked by a personAn assistant that answers RFQs and prices them from today's material costs.
- Quotes drafted as soon as an RFQ lands
- Routine supplier questions answered
- Before
- Every request for quote meant digging through past jobs and checking current raw material prices by hand, while supplier and vendor questions piled up in the inbox.
- What we built
- An assistant that watches the inbox, picks out RFQs and the questions that matter, builds quotes from past orders and live raw material prices, and answers routine supplier and vendor questions.
- Now
- Quotes are drafted as soon as an RFQ lands, ready for someone to check, and routine supplier questions get answered. The team handles only what needs a person.
How it works
Incoming RFQSupplier questionPast orders + today's material pricesQuote drafted for approval
Built on the tools you already use.
We connect what you have instead of asking you to switch. Common ones include:
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Tally
- Zoho
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Microsoft 365
- Google Workspace
- Slack
- Shopify
Questions owners ask us.
It can draft them. The assistant reads the RFQ, finds similar past orders and applies today's material prices, then someone on your team checks and sends the quote. Pricing decisions stay with you.
Usually. We connect to the systems you already run and only suggest a change when something genuinely can't be connected. The audit confirms it for your setup.
Anything that matters goes to a person first. AI drafts; someone on your team approves anything that reaches a customer or touches money, and you can always see what it did.
Yes. We work inside your own accounts, with access you control and can revoke at any time, and we show you exactly what data each system touches before anything is built.
Usually with quoting or order entry: they happen every day, follow clear patterns and cost the most hours. The free audit ranks your options by payoff.
Let's talk about your busywork.
Tell us what's eating your team's time. Pick a slot that suits you; you'll talk with us directly, not a salesperson.
- Free, with no obligation
- A quick 30-minute call, video or phone
- If it's useful, the call becomes your free AI audit, with a written report in 1-2 days
Free 30-minute call
Pick a time that suits you. You'll talk with us directly.
- 30 minutes
- Video or phone
- No obligation
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