Get the quote back before the buyer’s other two shops do
A buyer emails a request for quote at 4:50 on a Thursday: 200 brackets, a drawing, a material callout, and a need-by date at the end of the month. Two other shops got the same package. In Scoped, whoever opens it puts it on the board in a minute: the customer, the part, the quantity, the date the buyer asked for, and who’s estimating it. Friday morning it’s sitting in your “RFQ in” column, not in one estimator’s inbox.
The board is yours to name: RFQ in, Estimating, Quote sent, PO received. The quote still goes out from your quoting tool or your spreadsheet, and you put the amount on the card. So you can see what you have out, and that the $38,600 housing quote to Corliss Pump hasn’t heard back in eight days. That’s the call to make this morning.
When a repeat customer sends a new revision of a part you ran last year, their page already has the last quote, the job, who ran it, the note that their receiving dock closes at 2, and the anodize color they rejected once. You requote from what you know, not from scratch, and the buyer can tell.
Try it: drag the $38,600 card to PO received.