You didn't start a manufacturing business to spend three days a week in Excel building quotes. SupplyChainCRM gives you an AI quoting engine, a live bid pipeline, and a compliance calendar that runs itself — so you can run your business.
CEO personally builds every quote in Excel. Pulls specs from memory. Checks margins on a calculator. Emails it as a PDF. Hopes the certification hasn't lapsed.
Customer enquiry comes in. AI pulls the spec, selects materials, checks compliance, builds the quote. CEO reviews and sends. Done before lunch.
These are the four things we hear from every manufacturing CEO we talk to. If even one describes your week, keep reading.
Your pricing knowledge lives in your head. Nobody else can build a quote because the process is you — your experience, your spreadsheet, your gut feel on margins. If you're off sick, quoting stops.
Every complex enquiry takes hours of spec review, material costing, capacity checking, and margin calculation. By the time the quote goes out, you've lost half a week that should've been spent winning new business.
ISO 9001 lapsed. Cyber Essentials expired. Your prime contractor noticed before you did. Now you're scrambling to renew while hoping they don't pull the contract.
Contracts Finder has hundreds of opportunities every week. You don't have time to check. By the time you see the good ones, the deadline has passed.
SupplyChainCRM's CPQ engine doesn't just speed up quoting — it captures your pricing logic, your material knowledge, and your margin rules so the system can build quotes the way you would. Except it does it in minutes, not days.
And here's what no other quoting tool does: it checks your compliance calendar before the quote goes out. If a required certification has lapsed, the system flags it. You never send a quote you can't back up.
Book a CPQ DemoCustomer sends specs. AI parses the requirements automatically.
Materials selected. Capacity checked. Margins applied. Quote structured.
You review the AI's work, adjust if needed, and send. 20 minutes total.
Compliance Gate: system checks all certifications are current before allowing quote submission
CPQ gets you your week back. These modules keep everything else running without you having to remember, chase, or check.
Every certification tracked — ISO 9001, AS9100, Cyber Essentials, IATF 16949 — with automated 90, 60, 30, and 7-day alerts. You never miss a renewal because the system won't let you.
CoreLive Contracts Finder feed filtered to your capabilities. Every opportunity scored by AI for relevance. Kanban board from Identified through to Won. See the bids that matter — stop missing them.
CoreTrack every customer and prime contractor. Log touchpoints. Get AI nudges when relationships go quiet. Director change alerts via Companies House — know when your key contact leaves.
CoreYou shouldn't need to open four spreadsheets and chase three people to know how your business is performing. The MD Dashboard shows you everything — the moment you log in.
Pipeline, compliance, bids, relationships, quoting — all on one screen. No spreadsheets.
The EU AI Act high-risk obligations take effect on August 2, 2026. If your AI tools generate quotes, reports, or assessments that cross into EU supply chains, you're in scope. Fines reach €15 million or 3% of global turnover.
No consultants. No IT department. No migration project.
5-minute diagnostic. We score your compliance posture, identify gaps, and recommend the right deployment tier.
We configure your CPQ with your materials, margins, and pricing logic. Compliance calendar populates. Bid pipeline filters to your capabilities.
Quotes in minutes. Compliance tracked automatically. Opportunities surfaced before deadlines pass. You focus on manufacturing.
Same platform. Same AI quoting. Same compliance tracking. The difference is where your data lives — and what that means for EU AI Act compliance.
If you spend three days a week building quotes, that's 150 days a year. At your billing rate, that's the most expensive spreadsheet in your business. Take 5 minutes to see what changes when the quoting does itself.