Current cost on every line. Not the January sheet in September.
Axle prices each BOM line from the freshest source you have, drafts and sends supplier RFQs where none exists, reads the responses back with the date attached, and flags anything older than your rule.
Margin leaks one stale line at a time.
Nobody quotes off a bad price on purpose. It happens because refreshing forty lines means emailing six reps and waiting.
Before
- Vendor cost from whichever price sheet was last saved
- Email the rep, wait two days, quote anyway
- Lead time discovered when the order is placed
- Margin calculated on a cost that moved last quarter
- The supplier chase eating the afternoon
With Axle
- Each line priced from the freshest source: price file, portal, or a dated vendor quote
- Supplier RFQs drafted and sent for lines with no current price
- Responses read back into the BOM with cost, lead time and date
- Anything older than your freshness rule flagged and refreshed before pricing
- Margin calculated on today's cost, and shown
A 14-line BOM, priced with receipts.
Two supplier RFQs went out at 9:27. Both were back by 9:41. One stale line was caught on the way. Illustrative
| # | Item | Cost | Source | Age | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pump, ANSI 3x2-10, 316 SS | $6,120 | vendor quote, RFQ sent 9:27 | today | 4 wk |
| 2 | Motor, 15 HP TEFC, 460 V | $1,240 | price file | 12 days | stock |
| 3 | Baseplate, fabricated steel | $880 | vendor quote, RFQ sent 9:27 | today | 4 wk |
| 4 | Mechanical seal, Plan 11 | $610 | was 41 days old; refreshed from portal | today | 2 wk |
| 5 | Coupling and guard | $290 | price file | 12 days | stock |
| 9 more lines, all inside the freshness rule · total cost $10,870 | |||||
Axle chases. Your people decide.
Axle takes on
- Pricing every line from the freshest source
- Drafting, sending and reading supplier RFQs
- Freshness checks and refreshes
- Lead time and availability per line
- Normalizing supplier replies into your BOM
Your people keep
- Supplier relationships and negotiated terms
- Which suppliers Axle may RFQ, and at which autonomy level
- Margin decisions when cost moves
- Exceptions the rules don't cover
The rest of the workflow is already there.
Start here. When you want the next door, it's the same Applications Engineer, already configured to your catalog, templates and rules.
Vendor pricing questions.
Where does Axle get vendor prices?
Your vendor price files, distributor portals you already use, past vendor quotes, and supplier RFQs it drafts and sends when no current price exists. Every price carries its source and date.
Does it email our suppliers on its own?
Only at the autonomy level you set. At Level 1 you approve every outbound RFQ. At Level 2 and 3 Axle sends them directly, to the suppliers you've authorized, from your template.
What counts as stale?
You set the rule, by days or by product line. Anything older is flagged and refreshed before pricing, and the quote shows the age of every cost.
Bring a BOM you priced last month.
We'll show you which lines were stale, and what the margin actually was.