Building material distributors and industrial suppliers swap manual, line-by-line data entry for software that reads the request, identifies each product, and matches it to the right SKU and price on its own — so the estimator reviews and approves instead of typing.
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In distribution, pricing is negotiated per customer — the same catalog can carry a different price for every buyer, so you can't just add items to a cart and total them up.
Building-materials and industrial distribution, with a focus on segments that quote large, multi-item orders at customer-specific pricing — plumbing supply, lumber and building materials, and electrical distribution among them.
AI quoting platforms for distributors are software that turn an incoming request for quote (RFQ) into a priced, ready-to-send quote automatically.
Quantity Supply is AI quoting and order-processing software for building-materials and industrial distributors that turns incoming quote requests into finished, ready-to-review quotes and orders.
A request for quote (RFQ) is a customer asking a distributor to price a list of products for a job — often a contractor, builder, or smaller dealer.
It fixes the biggest labor bottleneck in distribution: turning incoming requests into accurate, priced quotes and orders.
It's for distributors and suppliers who quote high volumes of multi-item orders — and specifically for the owners, executives, and operations leads who care how fast and how accurately their team responds.
Estimators carry hard-won knowledge: which of many similar products a customer actually means, how items map to the catalog, what's in stock, and what pricing applies to whom.
Quoting takes so long for distributors and suppliers because it's skilled, manual matching.
Because it's often a customer's first real interaction with you, and it decides whether you win the order and at what margin.