QuotationDeveloper enforces a structured 6-department approval workflow on every quotation. Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, Plant Manager, and Sales all review and approve — with a full audit trail — before any quote is sent to your customer.
Set Up Your Approval WorkflowThese three approval failures are behind most of the costly commercial errors in manufacturing companies — and all of them are preventable.
An engineer emails a price without Finance or Quality reviewing it. The customer accepts. Three months later you discover a missed cost. By then, it's a contractual commitment you can't walk back.
Chasing approvals over email is slow, creates no audit trail, and results in approvals being bypassed under deadline pressure. The approval process becomes a bottleneck — or worse, an afterthought.
Auditors, OEM supplier assessments, and internal reviews ask: 'Who approved this quote, when, and on which version?' If the answer is 'someone replied to an email', that's an audit finding.
Each department has a defined accountability. All 6 must approve — in parallel — before the enquiry can advance to Quoted status.
Verifies technical assumptions: process routing, cycle times, PPAP level, tooling design.
Confirms overhead rates, FX rates, working capital requirements, and financial return thresholds.
Validates material availability, supplier lead times, and inbound logistics costs.
Confirms machine capacity, plant readiness, and feasibility of SOP date commitment.
Reviews PPAP requirements, quality plan, test costs, and compliance obligations.
Validates commercial terms, customer relationship context, and strategic bid recommendation.
Every approver sees their department card. Green = approved. Orange = returned for revision. Grey = pending.
QuotationDeveloper's approval workflow is the safety net that prevents costly commercial errors from reaching your customer.
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