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Cutting Cable-Quote Turnaround by 92% at Tempsens with End-to-End AI Workflow
Manufacturing
Operations Adaptation AI Growth OfficeAI Services
May 2025
Quote Speed
92%
Faster
OPEX Cut
₹15L
Monthly
CableQuote AI
RFQ Ingestion
Auto-Parse
Cable Design
AI Architecture
BOM & Pricing
SAP Integration
Live Processing4h Turnaround
100+
RFQs/Day
40h
Eng Hours/Week
0%
SAP Errors
585% ROI
60% R&D Time
AI Workflow
Executive Snapshot
Manufacturing Quote AI Transformation
Client
Tempsens - multinational industrial & optical-fiber cable manufacturer
Challenge
30-person engineering-sales team was drowning in manual quoting & SAP updates
Services
AI ConsultancyAI DevelopmentAI Agents
Key Results
92% faster quote cycle
₹15 L (~US $18 K) monthly OPEX cut
100 % SAP data accuracy
“THIS Workflow freed our engineers to innovate instead of keying data. Quotes hit customers in hours, not days.”“THIS Workflow freed our engineers to innovate. Quotes hit customers in hours, not days.”
TS
VP Sales Engineering
Tempsens
Challenge & Objectives
Challenge Narrative
Tempsens customers deliver free-form specs (PDFs, Excels, long emails) for custom cable builds. Engineers had to:
- Interpret requirements & draft cable architecture
- Build BOM, cost & margin analysis
- Generate formal quote & upload to SAP
With >100 new RFQs per day, the 30-person team still faced a 5-day average turnaround and a growing backlog, stalling revenue and inflating labor cost.
KPI (Baseline → Target)
Speed quote delivery
5 days → 4h
92% faster
Cut labor cost
₹15L/mo saved
68% reduction
Zero re-key errors
8% → 0%
Eliminated
Engineer time on R&D
20% → 60%
3× increase
Solution Overview
CableQuote AI Workflow
Service Pillars Engaged
AI Consultancy
Process audit, SOPs, success metrics
AI Development
Multi-tool agent pipeline, SAP adapters
AI Agents
“CableQuote Bot” orchestrating extraction → architecture → pricing → quote
AI Workflow Process
Ingests raw RFQs from email, parses specs via LLM-RAG chain
Drafts cable-layer diagram, calculates BOM/cost with live SAP material prices
Composes a branded PDF quote, and pushes all objects (BOM, costing, PDF) into SAP SD
Fully unattended — zero human intervention required
Cable Properties Dashboard
Cable Properties
Cable Spec Code
24F x1.5 ADSS Multi-Jacketed Stranded
Multi-Type Compact
Properties
Cost/Meter:₹249.12
Total Cost:₹64292.0
Cable Properties Details
24F x1 Loose ABC / 1464 TG / 01 / FR/LSH Inner 1464₹186.8
Kevlar Element 5kN₹34.42
Inner sheath (FR LSH PVC)₹8.42
Unit Cost:₹222.52
Quote Performance
4h
Quote Time
100%
SAP Accuracy
Live BOM
Architecture & Approach
Implementation Strategy
1Discovery & SOP Design
12 stakeholder interviews, 37 “shadow-day” observations
Mapped 18 discrete tasks → consolidated into 6 automated steps
2Deployment & Adoption
Pilot (3 users) → phased rollout (30 users) in 6 weeks
Training workshops; feedback loop auto-tags mis-parses
3Technical Build
Input ingestion: LangChain email listener, OCR fallback
Requirement parsing: GPT-4o + retrieval voting (optical-cable spec KB, 21K docs)
Cable architecture generator: Constraint-based reasoning engine (IEC 60794)
BOM & costing: SAP BAPI ↔ Kafka micro-service, real-time material index
Quote composer: templated LaTeX → PDF, digital-signed
Security: VPC-isolated, AES-256 at rest, audit logging to ELK
Quote Processing Flow
Client RFQ emails & docs
Email listener & OCR
Requirements parser (LLM + KB)
Cable Architecture Generator
Quote Composer (PDF)
SAP SD Update
Delivered quote to customer
Feedback loop & monitoring
Automated Flow
Outcomes & Business Impact
| Metric | Pre-9AI | Post-9AI | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avg. quote time | 5 days | 4 h | ▲ 92% faster |
| Engineering hours on quoting | 480 h/wk | 40 h/wk | ▼ 92% |
| Monthly labor spend | ₹22 L | ₹7 L | ▼ ₹15 L |
| Data errors in SAP | 8% | 0% | Eliminated |
| 3-yr projected ROI | — | 585% | — |
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