In the last few years, marketplaces exploded. Platforms multiplied. Emails piled up. Now, suppliers aren’t just quoting — they’re translating.
One day it’s email RFQs. The next, a portal that makes you log in just to reply. Then another system scrapes your inbox, parses your quote, and sends it back to your ERP — hours later.
Meanwhile, the system that’s supposed to run quoting? Still waiting. Disconnected. Blind. Behind.
And in aviation, that kind of delay doesn’t just slow you down — it costs you deals.
The Modern RFQ Maze — Where Work Got Replaced by Workarounds
Here’s what quoting looks like for most suppliers today:
- ✉️ RFQs hit your inbox from known and unknown buyers
- 🔗 Others ping your ILS, PartsBase, and Locatory accounts
- 🌐 A third platform sends a request — but forces you to use their interface
- 📥 Then a “smart” tool parses your quote email — just to sync it back into your ERP later
The result?
You’re chasing your own workflow. Quotes are scattered. Certs get missed. Decisions happen late — or worse, blindly.
That’s why in 2024, ERP.Aero deployed a quoting breakthrough to shut the loop.
💥 Meet iRFQ — Built to Eliminate the Disconnect
We didn’t build a helper tool. We built a quoting core. Integrated, not adjacent. So it doesn't connect with a solution, it is the solution.
And that system is called: iRFQ. Multi-Source RFQ, Vendor Quote, and Cert Capture That Works as Fast as You Do
The market? It's very unforgiving. Suppliers are flooded with RFQs from a million places and vendor replies — buried in emails, scattered across PDFs, slowed by manual entry, missing certs, and broken trails.
The work is manual, even if you have an ERP. RFQs come via email. They come from the marketplaces, your site or storefront. And you still need pricing, so on top of everything else, you sending and receiving vendor quotes.
The crazy part? You wait on one system to receive, another to communicate, and a sync process that might take hours. By the time you’re ready to quote, the buyer has already moved on.
iRFQ Fixes That
It doesn’t just help you respond faster — it eliminates the chaos altogether.
- RFQs from PartsBase, ILS, Locatory, your eCommerce portal, and email — all land in one unified inbox.
- Vendor replies are auto-captured with pricing, certs, docs, and images.
- Quotes are generated, compliant, and ready to win — without toggles, parsing delays, or retyping.
From RFQ intake to customer quote — it all happens in one continuous system.
Here's How
Your RFQs? iRFQ pulls them from:
No RFQ gets missed. No team member gets buried.
Vendor Quotes? iRFQ captures them too:
- Captured instantly
- Matched to the right RFQ
- Paired with certs (8130s, CoCs, teardown, trace, mod summaries)
- Logged, searchable, quote-ready
Certs aren’t parsed after the fact. They’re embedded in the flow.
✅ Autoquote Engine. From Config-Based to AI-Driven
Whether you use config rules or AI-enhanced pricing logic:
- AI suggests pricing, alternates, cert choices, and buyer risk
- Rules can trigger autoquote generation for repeatable RFQs
- Every quote includes margin history, certs, and traceability
iRFQ doesn’t just respond. It thinks, learns, and quotes with confidence.
✅ Why it Matters — The iRFQ Edge
- Pain Point: Manual Data Entry for RFQs
- Traditional Reality: Copy-paste from emails and PDFs
- iRFQ Outcome: Quotes auto-populated in seconds
- Pain Point: Missed Vendor Responses
- Traditional Reality: Threads get lost, attachments ignored
- iRFQ Outcome: Every quote and cert captured, always
- Pain Point: Compliance Risk
- Traditional Reality: Certs scattered, sometimes missing
- iRFQ Outcome: Linked, searchable, audit-ready certs — day one
- Pain Point: Sourcing Slowdown
- Traditional Reality: Admin eats time and accuracy
- iRFQ Outcome: Buyers quote — not retype
- Pain Point: Lack of Visibility
- Traditional Reality: No clear view of what vendors sent or when
- iRFQ Outcome: Unified vendor quote log, per RFQ, fully timestamped
Others help you reply faster. iRFQ removes the reply.
The Flow That Changes Everything
- RFQ Received — from al sources
- Vendor Replies Arrive — email, with attachments
- iRFQ Captures It All — price, lead time, condition, certs
- Side-by-Side Comparison — all vendors, one screen
- Quote Built — with certs already attached
- Sent, Tracked, Converted — no toggles, no re-entry, no delays
- Built-In Audit Trail
- Single source of truth
🔧 Real-Time Isn’t a Feature. It’s the Baseline.
Let’s be clear:
You don’t win quotes because you respond fast. You win because you respond completely — faster.
Quoting today is about:
- Including the right certs the first time
- Surfacing the best alternates instantly
- Knowing your margin before the quote goes out
- Picking the best vendor without opening 12 tabs
Other tools intercept your email. iRFQ eliminates the need to leave it. And while they promise automation, ERP.Aero delivers execution.
There’s no delay. No sync. No dual entry. Because iRFQ isn’t next to your ERP — it is your ERP.
🧩 iRFQ Was Built to End the Quoting Gap
Not to patch the chaos. To remove the need for it — entirely.
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