The reliable spine
The non-AI spine carries it: the standard costing template per product type, the material line tied to the live polymer or board price, and the register that versions every quote and tracks win and loss.
Plastics & Packaging Converters
Quoting, faster and more accurate on a moving resin price
An enquiry arrives and a senior person rebuilds the cost in Excel (resin grade and rate, film or board structure, print, lamination, conversion, margin), and by the time the quote goes out, resin has moved, so the converter quotes on a stale price or takes days.
Who has it
Every converter. For corrugated and rigid box makers the same quoting page ties the material line to the live paper and board price instead of the live polymer price; it is the same motion, read against a different input.
What we build
One standard costing template per product type, the material line tied to the live polymer or board price, plus a register that versions every quote and tracks win and loss.
What is automated, where AI helps, who signs off
Automation for the routine. A person on every decision that matters.
Where AI helps
AI is confined to reading the incoming enquiry and the customer's structure or specification and pre-filling the costing template with the right grade, structure and conversion lines; a senior person reviews and the named approver releases the price.
Who signs off
A named person signs off anything touching money, stock, a customer promise, a regulated filing, a payment, a price, a credit decision or a people decision.
What changes day to day
Quote turnaround drops from days to hours and quotes stop going out on a stale resin price, so quote cycle time and win rate improve.
Illustrative outcome
Quote turnaround drops from days to hours and quotes stop going out on a stale resin price, so quote cycle time and win rate improve. Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Illustrative; final numbers come from your own data.
Path to the build
How this one gets built.
Book a free 60-minute call, then a free Blueprint on the firm's own records. Deep-dive and build, followed by run and govern so the workflow keeps paying back.
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