01 / The problem
Every RFQ depended on six teams.
Sales held the RFQ and revisions. Engineering read the drawing. Operations checked the route and capacity. Procurement gathered supplier inputs. Finance checked rates and margin. Bid reviewers approved the response. Someone had to carry the context between all six.
A late drawing revision meant reconnecting those decisions before the deadline. The constraint was coordinating a complete response while keeping the requirements, costs and commitments consistent.
02 / Our solution
One shared context for the quote.
LevelPlane connected the drawing, factory data and supplier inputs in one workflow. Specialist agents prepared the analysis and quote inputs; the customer’s experts reviewed the decisions and approved the final commitments.
03 / How we did it
Coordinate the handoffs, keep the approvals.
The workflow kept requirements and revisions attached to the same RFQ, prepared the process and cost inputs, and made dependencies and owners explicit. Missing information was flagged for the responsible team before the response moved to approval.
Response timing is measured against the RFQ deadline.
04 / What LevelPlane added
Coordination across the whole response.
Engineering, operations, procurement and finance worked from the same requirements and assumptions. A change could be reviewed with its cost and delivery implications together. Approved reasoning stayed with the RFQ and could inform the next relevant job.
05 / Business benefits
More bids handled. Deadlines met.
Compared with the previous workflow.
Delivered by the RFQ deadline.
The supplier could respond to more RFQs while meeting every response deadline in the reported workflow. That increased its capacity to compete for work, with experts retaining control of prices, margins and commitments.
Reported results from one supplier workflow. The 3× figure measures RFQ response capacity; 100% refers to responses delivered on time.
Customer identity withheld. Results reported by LevelPlane.
