Benchmark guide · 6 pages · PDF
How much revenue is slow quoting actually costing you?
Not a sales pitch, a self-check. Where the quote clock actually goes, how win rate typically tracks response speed, and what turning quotes around faster is worth in jobs won per year.
- 2.5h → 6min
- Material / nesting estimate per RFQ, manual vs automatic
- 42% vs 9%
- Typical win rate, same-day quote vs 4+ day quote
- 4 stages
- Of a quote. Three barely move. One eats the day.
What is inside
- 02
Where the quote clock actually goes
Hours per RFQ, stage by stage. Receive and review, material estimate, pricing, send and follow up. Which one changes with tooling and which ones do not.
- 03
Win rate by quote turnaround
Same day, next day, two to three days, four plus. Why being in the room before the decision matters more than being cheaper.
- 04
Why manual estimating does not scale
A rush quote can always jump the queue. The damage shows up under normal load, as RFQ volume grows and the estimate backs up behind everything else.
- 05
What faster quoting is worth
A conservative 8-point win-rate lift applied to your RFQ volume. Revenue, not cost savings, so it stacks on top of material gains.
- 06
Your number, not the benchmark’s
A four-row self-check: find how long your last quote took and read what that says about where your bottleneck is.
The figures are illustrative benchmarks based on typical job-shop RFQ dynamics, a $1,500 average job value and a conservative estimated win-rate lift from faster response. They are not a named study. Your own win rate depends on price, capacity and relationships as much as on response time, which is why the last page asks you to time your own quote.
The stage the guide is about
Three of the four quoting stages barely change with tooling. The material and nesting estimate is the one where a confident price either shows up in minutes or eats the rest of the day.
Lapas turns that stage into an upload: drop the DXFs, pick the sheet, and get sheet count, material used and a layout you can show the customer. Free plan, five exports a month, no card.