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CAD revisions converted to vendor RFQs in minutes.

Engineering pushed new designs on Friday afternoons. The buyer team retyped the cut list on Monday and sent RFQs out by Tuesday. Vendor responses straggled in across the week.

Custom commercial furniture shop welding fixture assemblies

At a glance.

Industry

Furniture

Custom commercial furniture maker, three plants

Outcome

4 days

cycle-time eliminated from CAD drop to vendor RFQ

Source stack
  • SolidWorks
  • Custom ERP
  • Outlook

The engagement, end to end.

Measured outcome from a live customer deployment.

The before-state

Engineering pushed new designs on Friday afternoons. The buyer team retyped the cut list on Monday and sent RFQs out by Tuesday. Vendor responses straggled in across the week.

What Polymr automated

New CAD revision dropped, cut list extracted automatically, hardware classified make vs buy, preferred mills and hardware vendors matched, per-vendor RFQ packets generated and queued for buyer approval.

The measured outcome

4 days. cycle-time eliminated from CAD drop to vendor RFQ. Measured outcome from a live customer deployment.

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CAD revision in. Vendor RFQ packets out. Same hour.

Each row below is a real stage of the loop, run in order. Identifiers anonymized.

  1. 01SolidWorks PDM
    CAD drop

    rev v6 lands at 14:08 in SolidWorks PDM. Polymr watches PDM commit hooks.

  2. 02Polymr intake
    Cut list extract

    STEP geometry plus drawing PDF parsed into 27 line items with finish and edge specs.

  3. 03Policy gate
    Make-vs-buy split

    14 lines tagged make, 11 tagged buy, 2 held for engineering note.

  4. 04Approval queue
    Vendor RFQ packets

    Two RFQ packets drafted: hardware mill V-218, finish supplier V-244. Buyer signs by 15:02.

Cut list extract · sample (anonymized)
SO-2218 · rev v6 · 27 lines · this is 6
  • PMR-FRN-1208Hardwood top, 72in x 36in x 1.5in, walnut, finish #N-224make
  • PMR-FRN-1244Steel leg, tapered, 28in, finish powder-coat black16buy · V-218
  • PMR-FRN-1311Hinge M-class soft-close, brushed nickel24buy · V-218
  • PMR-FRN-1402Cable grommet 60mm, black thermoplastic4buy · V-244
  • PMR-FRN-1502Mounting bracket A-22, zinc-plated8buy · V-218
  • PMR-FRN-1844Edge-banding spool, walnut veneer, 50m2engineering hold · join spec ambiguous

Illustrative cut list. The actual customer engagement ran across 27 line items per SO, two vendors, three plants, and one engineering reviewer per held line.

What this looks like inside Polymr.

The screenshot below is the live tenant view that powers the workflow described above.

/flowWorkflow map · CAD-to-RFQ stage
Polymr workflow map showing CAD intake stage feeding cut list extraction and vendor RFQ generation

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