ProductPurchasing
Buy against what you quoted.
In most machine builders, a large share of the cost is bought in. Drawgen keeps purchasing on the same record as the quote, so every request and offer is judged against what you told the customer.
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Step 2Supplier requests
Requests drafted from the record, sent by your buyer.
For bought-in lines, Drawgen drafts the request from what the job needs, and suggests suppliers from your own history: what they charged, how long they took, how often you have used them. Nothing is sent until your buyer approves it.
- Specification taken from the job record
- Suppliers ranked on your own order history
- Every request approved by a person before it goes
Step 4Purchase checks
Every offer next to the quote and the last price paid.
When the order is won, Drawgen checks each supplier offer against what the line was quoted at and what you last paid for the same thing. Offers that would eat the margin are flagged early, while there is still time to ask someone else.
- Offer, quote and last price paid, side by side
- Price differences flagged before the order is placed
- The buyer decides, and the decision is kept on the record
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Post-costingQuoted against actual when the job closes, and fed into the next quote.
In controlPeople decide
It gives your team time and evidence, and leaves every decision with them.
Your estimator sets the price
Drawgen shows what similar jobs cost and where the evidence runs out. The selling price is always your estimator’s decision, and the rules stay theirs, written down and credited to them.
Your buyer approves every request
Supplier requests and orders are drafted from the job record and wait for a person. Nothing goes to a supplier or a customer on its own.
Your data stays yours
One database per builder. Your prices, costs and hours are never pooled with anyone else’s, and never used to price another builder’s jobs.