Comparing Supplier Quotations Efficiently Using ERP Systems
Why Your Procurement Team Is Losing Time and Money on Supplier Quotes Ask any procurement manager at a construction or RMC company about their biggest daily frustration, and the answer is almost always the same. Not the suppliers. Not the site teams. It is the process of comparing quotations. On paper, it sounds simple. You send out enquiries, suppliers send back their prices, you pick the best one, and you move forward. But anyone who has actually done this at scale, across multiple projects, dozens of material categories, and hundreds of suppliers, knows how far that description is from reality. Quotes come in over email, WhatsApp, and phone calls. They arrive in different formats, with different terms, different tax structures, and different delivery conditions. Someone has to pull all of this into a spreadsheet, calculate the actual landed cost for each supplier, and present it to a manager for approval, all while the site is waiting for materials and the project clock is ...