ERT Quoting and Supplier Portal for Manufacturers.

ERT's  Quote system is an integrated quote management application designed for Contract Manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturers and Defense Contractors.  ERT Quote manages all aspects of the complex quote management process as well as sub-processes that contribute to the final price proposals submitted to end customers. ERT Quote is used to streamline quote activities and data resulting in more competitive material costs, reduced quote cycle time and increased data accuracy.

ERT Quote's Value

• Provide competitive quotes to win more business
• Reduce material costs
• Full process quote cycle time of 3 days or less
• Increase data accuracy

Improve decision making through increased visibility

Capabilities

Strategic Sourcing - A robust request for quote (RFQ) web interface with suppliers enables the continuous information flow of pricing, availability and other general market data. With a constant pulse on your supply chain through this centralized costing database and a Supplier Relationship Module (SRM), you can quickly determine the best source for a requirement with the complete knowledge of all the factors that can affect a sourcing decision.

BOM Costing - Determines what it will cost to build a product at various volume breaks by employing a rich functionality to execute direct material RFQs, labor, and overhead cost estimation. Also supported is the process of adding margins and rolling up a final price proposal for a customer.

Labor Estimation - Estimates manufacturing costs, including labor and equipment costs, based on work center routings and standardized time studies. Centralizes estimation knowledge and standardizes estimating methods across the entire organization while accounting for the unique labor and machine rates that exist at each manufacturing facility and global region.

Material, Labor & Overhead (MLO) - Handles flexible and extensive markups to material, labor and overhead costs as well as non-recurring engineering (NRE) charges. Calculates gross profit margin across various cost elements.

Volume Purchase Agreements (VPA) -This process requires consolidation and aggregation of component demand across the enterprise. On demand translation into supplier part numbers, commodity information and spend analysis is also supported. This information gives our customers the best leverage possible in periodic negotiations with suppliers.

Business Intelligence - a suite of reports transforms the captured data into information that enables our customers to spot trends and make the most knowledgeable and profitable business decisions.

Supplier  Portal - to accelerate communication between component suppliers and their customers.  It provides instant web connections to hundreds of suppliers for the ease of completing quoting tasks and generating proposals.  Share RFQs, project status, email broadcasts and performance metrics, over the web, without having to build elaborate portals and unique data handling templates with each supplier. 

Fast, Efficient and Accurate

• Respond more quickly and accurately to RFQs
• Keep up with the latest technologies and business practices

Create New Business

• Monitor business that has been won and lost
• Spend less time quoting, and more time selling
• Improve customer relationships

Web Access 24x7

• Eliminate the mountain of incoming excel files
• Avoid data entry errors
• Prevent lost RFQs
• Easy access when traveling

Analysis

• Track performance metrics
• Quickly prepare for quarterly business reviews
• Easily access historical quotes and trends
  
  

Features and Benefits

• Web based RFQ submission
• Email alerts
• Import and export from web interface
• RFQ attachments
  
• Assign tracking numbers to incoming RFQs
  
• Add supplier comments
• Email questions directly from web interface
• Highlights required fields
• Correct and store customer’s manufacturer part numbers
• Suggest alternate parts / substitutions
• Assign product codes - recall and sort by codes
• Auto-populate RFQs with contract or historical pricing

Reports:

• Customize pricing exports
• Supplier performance
• Historical price query
• Statistics: won, loss
• Quote cycle time statistics

At Your Customer’s Option:

• View total available market in RFQ opportunities
• Instant feedback on competitiveness
• Visibility of competing prices offered by un-named sources
• View customer’s project status: won, open, closed