For owners and office managers of manufacturing shops
Less paperwork. More time on the shop floor.
I take the retyping off your office’s plate — quotes, orders, invoices — and the interruptions that come with them. Built on the systems you already run. No new ERP. You see it working on your own quotes before you pay for anything.
01 — Where the hours go
The same six things, retyped every week.
Every one of these already exists somewhere in your shop — in an email, a PDF, the ERP, a spreadsheet. The hours go into moving it from one to the other by hand.
Quote request → draft quote
Part, quantity, finish and due date pulled from the email or the dealer's form, priced from your own sheet, ready for your estimator.
PO entry
Emailed purchase orders straight into JobBOSS, ProShop or Epicor. Nobody retypes a line item.
“Where’s my order?”
Answered from your ERP, by email or on a screen, without anyone walking out to the floor to look.
Reorder alerts
Early warnings on material and stock from the numbers you already have, before the job that needs it is on the machine.
QA and cert paperwork
Inspection reports, material certs and first-article forms assembled from the job, not typed up at the end.
Invoicing and AR
Invoices out the day the part ships. A reminder when one is late, written in your voice, sent without you remembering.
Not sure where yours go? Eight questions about how you quote, about two minutes, and you get a straight answer about what the slow parts cost you.
02 — One workflow, start to finish
RFQ in. Draft quote out.
Connect an assistant to the inbox your quote requests land in. It reads each one, prices it from your own quoting sheet, and leaves a draft for your estimator. Nothing goes out until a person has looked at it.
Best fitRepeat work and jobs you already price from a standard sheet.
You approveYou or your estimator signs off on every price and date before anything goes to the customer.
Watch the inbox
Spots the quote requests in the inbox they already land in.
Read the request
Pulls part, quantity, finish and due date from the email and the drawing.
Price it
Prices it from your quoting sheet, the one you use today.
Draft the quote
Fills in your template. Flags anything it isn't sure of.
Review and send
Your estimator checks it, changes what needs changing, and sends.
Sample numbers
The request
From: buyer@customer.com
Subject: RFQ – bracket
Please quote the attached bracket, BRK-114 rev C. 6061-T6, clear anodize. Qty 50 / 250 / 1,000. Need by Nov 14.
Attachment: BRK-114_revC.pdf
What it pulls out
| Part | BRK-114 rev C |
|---|---|
| Material | 6061-T6 |
| Finish | Clear anodize |
| Qty | 50 · 250 · 1,000 |
| Due | Nov 14 |
| Flag | Thread callout? |
The draft quote
| Qty 50 | $18.40 / ea |
|---|---|
| Qty 250 | $9.75 / ea |
| Qty 1,000 | $6.20 / ea |
| Lead time | You confirm. |
Held for a person: the thread callout.
What the prototype starts with
- Your quoting sheet
- Rough is fine: material, machine rates, setup, margin.
- The unwritten rules
- Minimums, rush fees, jobs you pass on. Only your estimator knows.
- Some past quotes
- Requests with the prices you sent, to check its math against yours.
- Quote time today
- We time a few together. That is your before number.
Send me those and I build the prototype on your own quotes, free. If it drafts quotes you would have sent, we talk about the build.
Have a problem nobody’s built software for? Call Stan.
Twenty minutes, no pitch. Tell me what’s slow. If a prototype would settle it, I’ll build one free.
Book 20 minutesOr write to me — stan.grin@tabletwoseven.com