Turns quotes that arrive in twenty different formats into one comparable table, priced on landed cost rather than unit price.
sourcing savings
to the Scan's evidence — before any scope
to a system in production, not a pilot
modeled targets · not client results · timings are CRFT's standard engagement
Quotes arrive as PDFs, spreadsheets and email bodies, each with its own units, terms and inclusions. Somebody rekeys them into a comparison sheet, and the comparison is on unit price because normalizing to landed cost by hand takes longer than anyone has.
Where the Scan startsWith your quote formats, supplier list and how landed cost is calculated today.
Four lines, the same four on every system we build. Where they fall is what makes this one different from the last one.
The signals it works from. Typically connects to ERP or procurement, Email, Supplier records and Spend data.
The calls it makes on its own, unattended, every time it runs.
Into the tools the work already lives in.
The buyer awards. Supplier relationships are relationships, and the award decision carries context — a second source you are cultivating, a quality history — that does not fit in a table.
The same four legs as every CRFT engagement — written for this system rather than in general.
We collect a real round of quotes and normalize them by hand once, with your team. That is where the true landed-cost formula surfaces, usually differing from the documented one.
Scope is set by format variety and category count. One category with ten regular suppliers is a contained first build.
Extraction accuracy is the whole system. It ships with a confidence threshold, and anything under it goes to a human rather than into the table quietly.
Every corrected extraction is training data for the formats your suppliers actually use. Accuracy climbs on your mail, not on a generic corpus.
Cycle time from quote deadline to award, and realized savings against the pre-normalized comparison.
Five inputs, a published price, a report in 48 hours. Decide with numbers — then own what gets built.