A drawing in. A clean BOM and a vendor packet out, the same hour.
Inbound RFQs arrive as a PDF drawing and a STEP file attached to a one-line email. Estimating, engineering, and purchasing each open the same file separately, often days apart. Polymr collapses that loop. The file becomes a structured BOM proposal the engineer reviews next to the original. Approved rows go out as per-vendor RFQ packets, and the estimator’s draft quote lands on the same page. One source file, three roles, one approval.
The CPQ rule is the price. No hidden math, no carryover spreadsheet.
The view below shows the configured pricing logic for a brake hub: inputs on the left, the cost breakdown on the right. Material rollup pulls from the live BOM. Labour standard pulls from the routing master. Burden pulls from cost-centre settings the controller already owns. Every input writes a row; every change re-runs the breakdown.
- Material
- A36 zinc
- Geometry
- PMR-4031.step
- Tolerance
- ISO 2768 fine
- Finish
- zinc B633
- Qty
- 4
One drawing in. A structured cut-list and a make-or-buy call.
A revised drawing lands and the engineer opens this view. The header shows the drawing revision and the changes from the previous one. The body is the cut-list extracted from the drawing, with every row tagged for material, finish, and whether to make it or buy it. The buy rows go out as per-vendor RFQ packets the same hour the engineer approves the diff.
DWG-PMR-4031-v6 · brake hub assembly
Posted from PDM 2026-05-29 16:42 · prior rev v5 · CN-1187
- + bolt M8x24 A325 · qty 4 · A325
- + lock washer split 8mm · qty 4
- - bushing std · qty 1
- ~ seal ring EPDM → FKM 38mm
| Line | Description | Qty | Spec | M/B | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L01 | hub forging | 1 | A36 zinc · zinc B633 | buy | RFQ-4844 → V-218, V-301 |
| L02 | bearing race 38mm | 2 | 52100 · as-rolled | buy | RFQ-4845 → V-201 |
| L03 | cone insert | 1 | brass · plain | buy | RFQ-4845 → V-218 |
| L04 | seal ring FKM | 1 | FKM 75 Sh | buy | RFQ-4846 → V-244 |
| L05 | bolt M8x24 A325 | 4 | A325 · zinc | buy | cat · V-301 |
| L06 | lock washer split 8mm | 4 | spring steel · zinc | buy | cat · V-301 |
| L07 | finish + plating | 1 op | zinc B633 | make | WC-FN-02 |
| L08 | cure + assembly | 1 op | - | make | WC-CR-01 · RT-218 L2 |
Three quotes side by side. The recommendation is on the row.
Open an RFQ and the comparison opens. Unit price, lead time, MOQ, payment terms, status badge. Polymr converts every quote to landed cost on the same incoterm so the buyer is comparing apples to apples. The "preferred" tag is a recommendation, not a hard assignment.
| Vendor | Unit | Lead | MOQ | Terms | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acme Industrial | $4.20 | 14d | 500 | NET-45 | Preferred |
| Northstar Components | $4.55 | 21d | 250 | NET-30 | Approved |
| Pacific Castings | $3.98 | 28d | 1,000 | NET-30 | New vendor |
A discrete shop with three customer engineering teams feeding the queue.
Anonymised engagement with a discrete contract manufacturer. Three customer engineering teams kept the inbound queue full of mixed drawing formats. Time from drawing arrival to approved BOM dropped from days to the same shift.
- Situation
- Drawings landed from three customer engineering teams across the week. Each revision triggered a full BOM re-type into the ERP, an RFQ packet build, and a sweep of open POs for downstream impact.
- What was breaking
- Of every ten revisions, two missed an affected open PO. Those misses surfaced 3–5 weeks later as the wrong rev shipped to a customer, a scrap event on the floor, or a vendor invoice that no longer matched the PO.
- BOM extraction + RFQ
- Engineering revisions
- Quote-to-procure
Where the quote-to-RFQ loop hands off.
The parsed BOM is the start of the chain, not the end. Revisions go out from here, vendor packets land in the supplier-quote workflow, and the industry view sets the context.
Engineering revisions
Once the BOM is live, the revision-fanout workflow keeps every downstream PO and WO honest as the design moves.
Supplier quotes, purchasing
The vendor packets land in the supplier-quote workflow, where the responses get normalised and scored.
Discrete manufacturing
The industry view: BOM-driven shops where engineering-purchasing handoff is the death zone.