Manufacturing industry

AI automation for industrial suppliers.

As a supplier, you live on tenders and tight margins. Every RFQ needs a fast, precise calculation, otherwise the order is gone. We automate tender analysis, quotes and delivery documentation.

The bottleneck for suppliers: RFQs that slip through.

Six time-wasters that every mid-sized supplier knows.

Tender and bill-of-quantities analysis

OEM packages with hundred-page specifications, bills of quantities and drawing attachments. Sales spends days parsing before any calculation can even begin, and many RFQs are left untouched.

Specification parsing in hours instead of days

Quote calculation with high variance

Thousands of part numbers, changing supplier prices, complex quantity structures. The calculation depends on a few people; holidays or sickness leave RFQs sitting.

Calculation draft at the click of a button

EDI integration with changing formats

Every OEM sends orders, delivery forecasts and invoices in its own format. ODETTE, VDA, EDIFACT, and in the end Excel by email again.

Automatic mapping of all formats

Delivery documents and freight papers

Delivery notes, packing lists, freight bills, created anew for every shipment, with different mandatory details depending on customer and destination country. Maintained by hand in shipping, error-prone.

Delivery papers from the ERP automatically

Quality reports (PPAP, initial-sample, FAI)

Initial-sample approval reports with 18 elements. Every OEM wants its own template, every one demands complete evidence. It ties up your quality department permanently.

PPAP/initial-sample at the push of a button

Forecast reconciliation with OEM customers

Read SupplyOn forecasts, reconcile with your production planning, make deviations clear. Several call-offs per week, week after week.

Forecast deviations flagged automatically

What we automate for suppliers in practice.

Bill-of-quantities parser for tenders

Public and private tenders are read in automatically. The AI extracts line items, quantities and delivery dates and flags risks before your sales team invests a single second.

Quote calculation with supplier prices

From the RFQ line items, the AI pulls current supplier terms, reconciles them with your calculation logic and delivers a calculation proposal including margin notes.

EDI mapping for automotive customers

ODETTE, VDA 4905/4906, EDIFACT ORDERS/DELFOR, regardless of the format, OEM data is mapped into your ERP. The system learns new customer formats during setup.

PPAP and initial-sample reports automatically

All 18 elements of the initial-sample inspection are compiled from your measurement data, drawings and process documents, in the customer-specific template, with an approval workflow through quality.

Delivery-note generator

From order and shipping notice, delivery notes, packing lists and freight papers are created, with the customer-specific mandatory details. Integration with carrier APIs for shipping-label printing.

Complaint handling (8D report)

The AI structures complaints according to the 8D method, draws fault patterns from history, drafts corrective actions. Your quality team reviews and approves.

Price and volume forecast analysis

OEM forecasts are mirrored against your production capacity and purchasing framework. Deviations and escalation points appear as traffic lights in the dashboard.

A typical case from the supplier industry.

Automotive supplier, 140 employees, parts manufacturing

A mid-sized parts manufacturer with three main OEM customers. Before the project: analysing an OEM tender took 3 to 4 working days. The bill of quantities was itemised by hand, risks and special requirements were filtered by the sales manager on gut feeling. Result: 60% of tenders were never answered, simply because there was no time.

After the rollout: the AI parses an incoming bill of quantities in two hours, extracts all line items, flags delivery and tolerance risks and creates a calculation proposal from supplier prices and calculation history. Sales reviews, adds detail and sends, on the same day. More RFQs are answered, and the hit rate rises.

90%
less tender time
2.2×
more RFQs answered
+18%
order volume

We connect with your supplier IT.

Integrated into your existing systems, not another tool sitting alongside them.

SAP Infor proALPHA Seeburger EDI Axway ODETTE VDA 4905/4906 DATEV SupplyOn Covisint Microsoft 365 Carrier APIs

We do not sell anything we have not built ourselves: our own AI apps in the App Store, a voice agent and a fully automated customer acquisition engine running daily in-house.

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Everything from a single source.

Consulting

We analyse your RFQ, quoting and delivery processes together with sales, calculation and quality. A concrete list: what is worthwhile, and what to do first.

Development

We build the solution to fit your ERP, EDI converter and OEM portfolio. A pilot in weeks, not months.

Operations

After go-live we stay on board. Monitoring, adjustments for new OEM formats, training for your team.

How a project runs with us.

01

Process analysis

Two days on site with sales, calculation and quality. A clear list of the biggest levers.

02

Pilot project

One concrete use case (typically: bill-of-quantities parser) live in 4-6 weeks.

03

Integration

Connection to ERP, EDI converter and OEM portals, no parallel worlds.

04

Scaling

Roll out further use cases from your priority list.

Questions from the supplier industry.

Yes. We work with the formats used by VW, BMW, Daimler and Bosch, as well as the common packages from Tier-1 suppliers. All standard variants (Excel bills of quantities, PDF specifications, OEM portals) are covered; a new format is learned by the AI during setup from just a few examples.
We either map through your existing EDI converter (Seeburger, Axway, Comarch) or access the messages directly. The AI extracts order, delivery and invoice data in structured form and enriches it with your ERP master data.
Yes. All 18 PPAP elements are compiled from your measurement, process and drawing data. Technical approval is given by your quality department; the AI prepares the report so that approval takes minutes instead of days.
4 to 6 weeks for the first use case. We typically start with the bill-of-quantities parser, because that is where the biggest leverage sits; calculation, EDI and PPAP follow as later steps.
A one-time training with the new customer's format examples, after which they are fully integrated into the system. Typical effort: a few days, no rebuild.
Yes. No sharing with third parties, no use for training public AI models, a full data processing agreement. On request, EU data processing, German hosting or on-premise in your data centre, depending on the requirements of your IT and data protection officer.

Let's talk for 30 minutes.

By the end you will know whether AI automation pays off for your supplier business, and if so, where the best entry point is.

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