TCM’s Estimating & Quoting function lets you explore a variety of product, material, labor, cost, and pricing alternatives. Estimating & Quoting operates on two levels: On one level, you can create quotations to allow you to bid on new jobs. On another level, your old jobs can be reevaluated using current or future material and labor costs. Likewise, you can easily use Estimating & Quoting to evaluate alternate methods of manufacturing and pricing of new or old products or variations of old products.

In addition to helping you reduce the clerical and administrative costs of producing quotes, Estimating & Quoting also gives you a better view of the relationship between cost and price and its net effect on your profitability.

Further, Estimating & Quoting lets you simply and quickly create a unique quote for a prospect or customer by allowing you to create an estimate from an existing estimate, from standard bills and routings, from an existing shop order, or by using TCM’s powerful Rules Based Configurator. For more complex products, you can build a “bill of estimates” to simplify estimating of subassemblies in the production of the “top level” estimate.

Estimating & Quoting also allows you to create customer orders, shop orders, standard bills of material and standard routings from estimates without manually reentering the information. By comparing the actual costs of the job in Job Costing to the original estimated costs in Estimating & Quoting, you have the ability to analyze the impact of your estimating.

Estimate Worksheets

In this example of the Estimate Worksheet, you can see the complete manufacturing estimate, including user-defined fields and parameters.