Furniture · case study
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.
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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