AI-assisted RFQ Workflow Implementation
Problem
Sales engineers manually open RFQ emails, review attachments, search previous quotations, coordinate with engineering, and draft responses. The work is slow, fragmented across systems, and easy to bottleneck under volume.
Business Context
Reference implementation of an AI workflow layer for B2B companies handling customer RFQs — commonly discrete manufacturers — across existing email, document, quotation, and approval systems, without replacing ERP, CRM, CAD, or PLM.
AI System
An AI-assisted RFQ workflow implementation that monitors incoming RFQs from existing email workflows, extracts requirements from PDFs, drawings, and spreadsheets, retrieves similar historical quotations, generates AI-assisted recommendations, and routes Microsoft Teams approval before drafting a customer reply.
Deployment Notes
Workflow integration across Outlook / email, document stores, historical quote knowledge, Microsoft Teams approval, and existing ERP / CRM / CAD / PLM context. Human engineer confirmation remains required before any customer-facing response. Each deployment is customized to the customer's systems, data, and workflow requirements.
- Customer RFQ Email
- PDF / Excel / Drawings
- AI Workflow Layer
- Historical Quotes
- Teams Approval
- Customer Reply
Business Value
- Intended to reduce manual RFQ coordination across email, documents, and engineering handoffs
- Retrieves historical quotations and prepares recommendations for human approval
- Keeps engineer confirmation required before any customer response
- Reference implementation. No client, performance, or ROI claims.
