✈️ From Inbox Survival to Quoting Command: Why We Built iRFQ


Hi,

If you work in aviation supply or MRO, chances are your day doesn’t start with strategy.

It starts with survival.

You open your inbox to 300, 400, sometimes 500+ emails. RFQs, newsletters, spam, vendor quotes, internal threads, forwarded PDFs.

You scroll. You search. You download. You try to remember which buyer asked for which part yesterday.

Some quotes go out on time.

Some slip to tomorrow.

Some never get answered at all.

Not because your team doesn’t care. But because the “system” running your RFQ intake is still… the inbox.

Now layer in where RFQs are actually coming from:

  • ILS
  • PartsBase
  • Locatory
  • Aeroxchange
  • B2B Aero
  • SkySelect
  • StockMarket
  • The145
  • AVSpares
  • PartsLogistics
  • B2B-Aero
  • Direct buyer emails
  • Your reps and your website

By mid-morning, your team is managing a storm instead of managing a pipeline.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Email is a terrible operating system for quoting. It was never designed to be your RFQ hub, your vendor interface, and your opportunity log at the same time.

That’s the problem we decided to solve with iRFQ, deployed inside ERP.Aero in 2024.

Download the Deck!

Stop-Treating-Your-Inbox-Like-a-Server.pdf

We built iRFQ to do the heavy lifting no team should have to do manually:

  • Pull every RFQ from every marketplace and inbox
  • Capture every vendor quote from emails, PDFs, and portals with zero retyping
  • Sort, classify, and prioritize RFQs in real time
  • Map each vendor reply to the correct part line
  • Clear 300–500+ emails in minutes, continuously
  • Present everything in one clean, actionable quoting queue

The experience on the ground looks very different.

You sit down at your desk. The inbox is no longer the battlefield. RFQs are already flowing into ERP.Aero. Vendor quotes are parsed and attached.

Your team isn’t hunting for opportunity — they’re executing on it.

And that’s the real shift:

From inbox survival mode to quoting command mode. From “What’s buried in here?” to “Which RFQs do we want to win today?”

Aviation doesn’t need more dashboards or one-off tools. It needs a reliable engine at the front door of quoting.

That’s what iRFQ provides.


📞 Ready to see it in action?

Let us show you the inbox-to-iRFQ flow — the one screen that empties your inbox, captures every vendor quote, and does what five tools (and 500 emails) are trying to do.

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