The quote knowledge is thrown away
Materials, operations and hours are worked out to price the job, then rebuilt from scratch when the job is won.
QPD for Manufacturing
The work you do to win a job should be the work that builds it.
QPD carries your BOM, routing, materials and resource requirements from enquiry straight through to the shop floor — then brings actual time and consumption back against the budget you quoted.
The Problem
Manufacturers rarely lack systems. They lack integration.
Quotes live in spreadsheets, planning lives on whiteboards, the shop floor works from paper, and finance reports the outcome after the fact.
Capacity is a guess
Promised dates are based on optimism rather than machine and labour availability across the order book.
The shop floor works from paper
Operators receive printed routing, and what actually happened only comes back after the job is finished.
Actual cost arrives too late
Actual time and material usage aren't measured against the original budget while the job is still live.
The connected journey
From opportunity to completion, keep the whole job connected.
- 01
Opportunity
Capture the customer, opportunity, requirements and commercial context in one place, ready to move into costing and quotation.
- 02
BOM & costed quote
Build the cost behind the selling price using materials and resources, manually or from a reusable or imported BOM, then turn it into a structured customer quote.
- 03
Budget & project
Turn won work into a project, carrying the material and resource budget forward into the structure you need for delivery
- 04
Routing & resource plan
Sequence operations with dependencies, then assign machines and people against real capacity and shift patterns.
- 05
Job cards & delivery
Issue operators the work and routing relevant to them and capture progress, time and material consumption.
- 06
Actuals & margin
Post actual labour and material cost back against budget so job margin is visible while the job is still live.
QPD in manufacturing
See the manufacturing journey in QPD.
Follow the work from the first opportunity through costing, planning and production — with the information created at each stage carried into the next.
Opportunity
Start with the work you're trying to win.
Capture the customer, opportunity, activity and commercial context before the job becomes a quote, keeping the commercial history connected to everything that follows.
- Companies, contacts and opportunities
- Configurable pipelines and sales stages
- Activities, tasks and customer communications
QPD — Pipeline & opportunities
Costing & quoting
Understand the job before you price it.
Build the expected cost behind the selling price using configured materials, labour and machines. Cost the work manually, or use deeper Manufacturing Operations capabilities where appropriate, then carry that information into the customer quote.
- Build expected material and resource cost
- Configure quote lines, pricing and discounts
- Create customer-ready quote documents
- Finalise and send without rebuilding the information
QPD — Pricing calculator
BOM definition
Define the product once, in the structure you actually build.
Sub-assemblies, components, operations and materials sit in one tree with quantity, cost and source, so the costed structure is reusable across quotes and jobs.
- Nested sub-assemblies and components
- Material, labour and machine cost visible per line
- Reusable templates instead of one-off spreadsheets
Part of the Manufacturing Operations Pack
QPD — Define BOM
Project creation
Win the job. Carry the work forward.
Where the job has already been budgeted, carry the material and resource requirements into the project. Where Manufacturing Operations has been used, QPD can use that structure to help build the project. Alternatively, teams can define the project and budget directly.
- Flexible project structures
- Carry quoted and budgeted requirements forward
- Confirm budgets before delivery begins
QPD — Project creation & structure
Real product screenshot to be added
Routing & operations
See the build as a process, not a list.
The flow view maps sub-assemblies and components into the sequence they are produced in, so routing, dependencies and hand-offs are explicit before work starts.
- Visual process map of the BOM
- Operation sequence and dependencies
- Reused when the job converts to a project
Part of the Manufacturing Operations Pack
QPD — BOM flow
Capacity & assignment
Assign machines and people against real availability.
Turn budgeted resource demand into actual assignments while considering capacity, availability, existing commitments, leave and working patterns.
- Machine and labour capacity in one view
- Booking percentages before you commit
- Batch assign across tasks and operations
Part of the Advanced Resource Planning Pack
QPD — Batch assignment
Qupid AI
Let Qupid help build the resource plan.
Qupid works from QPD's structured operational data to propose resource assignments while considering availability, existing commitments, working patterns and dependencies. Proposed assignments are presented for human review rather than automatically committed.
- Propose people and machine assignments
- Consider availability and existing commitments
- Respect dependencies and working patterns
- Review before assignments are committed
QPD — Qupid AI resource planner
Job cards & delivery
Put the work in people's hands.
Operators receive the work relevant to them and can capture what actually happened as production progresses.
- Job cards and work assignments
- Relevant routing and requirements
- Progress and time capture
- Material and machine consumption
QPD — Job Cards & Shop Floor
Real product screenshot to be added
Actuals & margin
See how the job is performing while it still matters.
Actual labour, machine time and material consumption come back against the project's expected cost, making variance and job performance visible.
- Actual labour and material cost
- Budget versus actual visibility
- Job margin and variance
- Planned versus delivered performance
QPD — Project Actuals & Performance
Real product screenshot to be added
Reporting & dashboards
Turn every job into better operational insight.
The connected data generated throughout the journey feeds reporting across sales, projects, resources, delivery, cost and margin.
- Configurable role-relevant dashboards
- Cost, margin and variance visibility
- Capacity and utilisation
- Sales and operational performance
QPD — Dashboards & reporting
Flexible by design
Core QPD covers the connected journey across CRM, quoting and costing, budgeting, projects, delivery, actuals, reporting and Qupid AI. Manufacturing Operations adds deeper BOM and routing capabilities, while Advanced Resource Planning adds capacity-aware planning and assignment across people and machines.
See pricing and packsSee how QPD fits the way you manufacture.
Show us how you quote, plan and deliver work today, and we'll show you how that journey could work in QPD.