Earnest & Associates
E&A is pleased to introduce QuickQuote (.pdf), an innovative solution collaboratively developed by E&A software consultants and drywall industry professionals. QuickQuote helps drywall distributors who often struggle with manually adjusting price changes for commercial construction projects extending over long periods of time.
“During my years as a commercially oriented materials supplier, I have tried many different methods of quoting materials to my customers,” said D. Jay DeFoor of DeFoor Drywall & Acoustical Supply who worked closely with E&A on the project. “All of them required significant thought and time to manually prepare, and none of them resulted in something that I could rely on as being competitive, consistent and accurate, let alone look professional in their presentation to the customer. Pricing reliability and consistency are two of the things that just could not be accomplished manually and nothing that I came up with was integrated into my system for future pricing of the deliveries to the jobsite,” he continued.
QuickQuote solves this problem by allowing managers to setup their project’s pricing and future escalators one time in QuickQuote’s specially-designed workbook. Drywall distributors gain a competitive advantage by providing more timely and accurate estimates of material costs to their customers.
How it Works
QuickQuote manages the exchange of information between Infor Distribution Business (SX.enterprise) and QuickQuote’s specially-designed workbooks. Price escalators are used to increase (or decrease) future pricing. End users can easily make a price adjustment to a select groups of items with a single click of the button. When the customer accepts the QuickQuote, the pricing records are imported into Infor Distribution Business on a job-specific basis. All of the relevant purchases including accurate pricing information for the project is saved to the QuickQuote.
Features
- The QuickQuote header is branded with the customer’s logo and contact information including contactor name, job name, quote date, quoted to and quoted by
- Pricing can be populated manually; by markup percentage or dollar amount; or by customer-specific pricing
- Items and price types are validated against the master database to ensure accuracy
- Price escalators calculate future pricing based on the price in a selected column
- Price adjustments can be made by dollar amount or percentage
Benefits
- Rapidly and accurately deliver columnar quotes to customers
- Vastly decreases the amount of manual effort required to maintain price sheets for commodities such as dry wall, insulation, steel studs and accessories
- Provide more timely and accurate estimates of material costs to commercial contractor customers
- Improved management control of pricing tables helps protect gross margins and profitability
- More consistent pricing to customers—no matter who initiates the quote!
To learn more, contact your friendly representative at E&A.
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