Is this process sufficiently agile, fast, flexible, and to what extent should it be standardized, or should it be custom-made?
Juan José Colás. Lantek Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Quoting is not easy and at Lantek we are very aware of this. Many factors need to be taken into account, and not just costs, hours of work, required resources and the profit you want to obtain. Factors which, in many cases, are difficult to quantify if this is to be done accurately and quickly enough.
Quoting is especially important since aside from the financial aspect, the way it is presented can determine the success or failure of the business.
A quote or financial offer is the company’s letter of introduction, the mechanism used for the first contact with a customer which is why on many occasions, the company only has one chance to make an impression and cannot afford to fail.
A quote not only presents our price, but also transmits our knowledge or expertise, making our value proposition as a whole more attractive or not.
To give the quote added value, the offer must demonstrate how we can help the customer and respond to their needs.
With the aim of supporting our customers in the difficult task of quoting, in the way they communicate with their customers and helping them to achieve their goal of winning the race to offer the best quote on the market, at Lantek we have developed solutions that will significantly facilitate this task and will put them without doubt, ahead of their competition.
When a company decides to go ahead with the digitization of its processes, it tends to be aiming for greater visibility, traceability and optimization, which generally implies improvements in efficiency and decision-making.
Identifying behavioral patterns to increase sales, foreseeing possible problems in order to resolve them before they happen, managing stock in a much more efficient way or redistributing the workload automatically. These are some of the many smart manufacturing possibilities offered by this new concept in the Industry 4.0 era.
In its effort to boost new technologies and as the leader in the international CAD/CAM market, Lantek has developed “Touch&Play” a Lantek Inside module encompassing more than 35 years of experience from Lantek in the sheet metal processing industry and new augmented reality technologies.