Accurate Quoting with Cetec ERP’s Build Estimate Feature
One of the biggest challenges in manufacturing is bridging the gap between sales and production. Sales teams need to provide customers with accurate quotes and delivery timelines, but they often lack real-time visibility into production schedules, inventory levels, and lead times. This disconnect can lead to overpromising, delayed shipments, and dissatisfied customers.
How Cetec ERP’s Build Estimate Feature Bridges the Gap
Cetec ERP’s solution is the Build Estimate feature. This tool is designed to bring sales and production teams together by providing real-time, data-driven estimates that take into account every critical factor:
- Real-Time Inventory: The system uses up-to-date inventory data to ensure that your estimates reflect the current stock levels.
- Lead Time and Labor Plans: Cetec ERP considers the lead times and labor requirements of every part in your Bill of Materials (BOM), ensuring that your timelines are realistic.
- Work Start Dates: Scheduling teams receive accurate work start dates based on lead time data, enabling them to plan production efficiently.
- Available to Promise: The Build Estimate Feature will show you how soon you can make this product and what you can quote now and get done in a timely manner.
- Capable to Promise: The system also looks through lead times, production lead times, and the dates you’re capable of delivering a product.
With these features, Cetec ERP makes it easier for your sales team to provide customers with accurate quotes that align with your production capabilities, reducing the risk of delays and improving customer satisfaction.
Seamlessly Integrate Build Estimates into Your Quotes
To make this process even smoother, Cetec ERP has integrated the Build Estimate feature directly into the quote screen. Here’s how it works:
- Easy Access: When editing a line item in a quote, a calendar icon appears next to the item.
- Quick Data Pull: Clicking the calendar icon pulls real-time data from the Build Estimate page.
- Accurate Estimates: The system automatically populates the worst-case start date and ship date, giving your sales team the information they need to set realistic expectations.
This integration allows your team to generate accurate, reliable quotes that align with your production capabilities, minimizing the likelihood of miscommunication and errors.
Cetec ERP’s Build Estimate feature bridges the disconnect between sales and production while streamlining the quoting process, making it faster and more accurate. By incorporating real-time data and automating the estimate process, Cetec ERP empowers your team to deliver on promises, every time. To learn more about how the Build Estimate feature can transform your quoting process, visit our blog here.