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AI for distributors by industry: quote automation, trade by trade

AI for distributors by industry only works if it reads your trade’s shorthand: steel grades and cut lengths, duct sizes and fire ratings, DIN fastener codes, cutting-tool part numbers. ERP Agent, live with steel, HVAC and fastener distributors, identifies the right products in your own catalogue, brings in customer pricing and prepares a quote or sales order your team reviews before it lands in your ERP, CRM or other system.

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Quote automation by industry: where ERP Agent is live

Each page walks through a typical request in that trade, line by line.

Fastener distributors

DIN and ISO codes, thread size, length, grade and finish in one line. The agent uses the numbers in each line (M10 x 40, DIN 933, 8.8) to tell size variants apart.

AI for electrical, plumbing, tooling and other distributors

Same agent and review screen; each page shows an illustrative request.

Electrical wholesalers

Lists where voltage and IP rating decide the product: a 230 V item is ranked lower when the line asks for 24 V.

Valves and fittings wholesalers

Valve, flange and fitting lists where DN size and PN class separate one product from the next; a candidate that contradicts the stated DN or PN is ranked lower, and you can open any line to read the agent’s reasoning or take an alternative.

Cutting tool and tooling distributors

Drills, taps and inserts by grade, DIN number or another brand’s part number; with a cross-reference list set up for your company, your equivalent ranks first.

Industrial supplies and MRO distributors

Mixed lists across product groups, often in the customer’s own material numbers or in a different language from your catalogue; the agent matches across languages and maps customer codes to your products.

What stays the same in every trade?

Full walkthroughs: AI quote automation for distributors, RFQ automation and order entry automation.

  1. The request arrives

    Reps forward the email to your agent mailbox or paste it into the web app; PDF, Excel, Word and images are read.

  2. The right products are identified

    Abbreviations, dimensions, part numbers and customer codes are mapped to your catalogue.

  3. Customer pricing comes in

    From the data and rules configured for your company, editable before sending.

  4. A rep reviews and approves

    Each line gets a match score from 0 to 100; lines under 80 are marked. By default, nothing reaches your ERP, CRM or other system until a person has reviewed it.

In numbers

Over 95%
accuracy in quote-line automation at LVI-WaBeK
95%
average automation across our customers
4–7 min
per line when quotes and orders are made by hand, according to our case study

Your trade not listed?

The agent works from your own catalogue and your customers’ requests, so the same steps apply in any trade where customers write in their own words: shorthand, sizes, part numbers and their own codes. Bring a few of your requests and we’ll show you what the agent proposes from your catalogue.

Frequently asked questions

Which industries does ERP Agent work in?

ERP Agent is live with steel, HVAC and fastener distributors; our published case is LVI-WaBeK in building services wholesale. The same agent also handles requests from electrical wholesalers, plumbers’ merchants, valves and fittings wholesalers, cutting tool distributors, industrial supplies and MRO distributors, and builders’ merchants.

Do different trades need different AI quoting software?

Not with ERP Agent. One agent works from your own catalogue and pricing, with the checks trades rely on built in: sizes, voltages and rating classes (DN50, 24 V, EI60), unit conversion and sawing lines for steel, and customer codes that can expand into a fixed set of catalogue lines. It also learns from the lines your team sends: the next time a customer writes the same thing, it picks the same product.

Which ERP systems does it work with?

Any ERP system. ERP Agent integrates with Business Central, SAP, NetSuite, Visma, IFS, Sage and any other ERP or CRM. We set up the connection for your company during onboarding, and you can start with a catalogue file the same week. See ERP and email integrations.

How can we test quote automation in our own trade?

Bring a few real requests, including the difficult ones. We’ll walk through them with you and agree the data and integration needed to test the agent on your catalogue. Pricing is a setup fee plus a monthly subscription; see pricing. To estimate what manual quoting costs you today, use the quote cost calculator.

Let’s look at your quote workflow

Bring requests from your trade

Send a few requests your team deals with, the awkward ones too, and we’ll show how the agent handles them.

  • Your requests and product catalogue
  • Your pricing and review process
  • A clear scope for the next step
Lauri Pelkonen

Lauri Pelkonen

Founder & CEO

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