Quoting system for steel stockholders & metal wholesalers
A steel stockholder or metal distributor gets a quote ready in minutes, not a workday — the quoting system for steel and metals distribution reads "IPE200 S235", "5mm HR sheet" or "dia16 rebar" straight from the customer's message and queries the mill for live prices in one click.
Requests for profiles, sheets, bars and tubes are broken by the AI into specific dimensions and grades, and the absence of a list price turns into a one-click inquiry to the mill — with purchase-price history as a margin hint.
Sale by length and mass and resilience to dimension notations (“40×40×3”, “dia20”, “IPE200”) are handled by trigram matching.
The daily grind we automate
Prices change day to day, and most items require an inquiry to the mill.
Dimension and grade notations (“40×40×3”, “IPE200”, “S235”) must be translated to part numbers by hand.
Converting to meters and mass, and margin off the purchase price — all done manually.
Your work, in your industry’s language
Quote profiles, sheets and bars
Dimension and grade description → a specific part number, sold by length or mass.
Send a mill inquiry in one click
No list price becomes an RFQ to the supplier — with purchase-price history as a margin hint.
Compute margin off the purchase price
Purchase price → margin → quote price, deterministically in code.
From customer request to quote draft
„Square hollow section 40×40×3 — 60 m, 3 mm black sheet, 2 sheets 1500×3000, and dia20 bar — 200 kg. Price and lead time?”
What the AI recognizes in your catalog
Four steps that happen on their own.
No human in any of them — until the very end, when a rep reviews and sends. The engine does the reading, matching and pricing while you sleep.
The customer writes naturally
An email, a chat message, a messy bullet list. No forms, no SKUs, no portal to learn. They write how they always have.
AI matches the items
Every position is read and mapped to the exact catalog item — by spec, by synonym, by the “usual” they always order.
Prices & margins fill in
Customer-group pricing, discounts and margins applied automatically. “On request” items trigger a supplier inquiry.
A quote ready to send
A clean, branded quote lands in the rep’s queue — review, adjust if needed, send. Minutes after the request arrived.
Does OferIQ support steel stockholders and metal product distributors?
How quickly can I prepare a quote for sections, sheets and bars with pricing?
Does the AI recognise steel-specific abbreviations and dimension notations — IPE, HEB, S355, dia20?
Book a demo on your own price list.
Bring a few of your own messy requests. We’ll run them through OferIQ live and show you a quote generated from your real catalog — in the meeting.