Quotation automation · Event and exhibition projects
How much of your project managers’ time goes into preparing quotes instead of selling?
Your most experienced project staff spend time searching, matching and transferring information before pricing or selling can even begin. Bills of quantities, briefings and technical documents have to be worked through manually for every request.
Assess the business caseAn initial, no-obligation assessment based on real customer requests.
What this looks like in practice
From customer request to a prepared quotation draft in your ERP.
Attached: a bill of quantities with 340 line items across more than 80 pages, plus floor plans and technical documentation.
Prepared automatically
- Match bill-of-quantities line items
- Substitute service components
- Create a quotation draft in the ERP
Remains with the project manager
- Review the draft
- Refine the pricing
- Approve the quotation
How it moves through your systems
- 1OutlookThe request arrives in the inbox.
- 2ProcessingThe bill of quantities, PDFs and technical documents are analysed.
- 3Item and project dataLine items are matched against your item, project and costing data.
- 4ERPThe prepared quotation draft is created in the ERP.
- 5SharePointThe documents are filed in a structured way with the project.
- 6TeamsOpen points and questions are routed to the project channel.
- 7ApprovalThe project manager reviews and approves the draft.
Example with Microsoft 365 – with SAP or other ERP/costing systems via their existing interfaces.
What changes as a result
Why not standard SaaS?
An off-the-shelf product comes with its own logic. This is about yours: which components belong together, how you calculate prices and what can be reused from previous projects. That logic lives in your data, processes and existing systems.
Send us 5–10 typical customer requests.
We will assess:
- what is currently prepared manually
- what can be automated
- which existing data and systems can be used
- what a sensible target process could look like
You receive a concrete assessment of feasibility and the business case.
Have your requests assessedNo project launch, no system changes. First, we assess whether it is worth doing.