Staff spent 20 days reviewing 500-page requests. Gen AI now parses specs to draft quotes in under a day.
An industrial manufacturer receives up to one million annual requests for quotation, involving complex engineer-to-order scenarios and documents ranging from 50 to 500 pages.
Answering these inquiries took up to 20 days per request, as staff had to manually review lengthy technical documents to recommend suitable products....
“SAP Business AI has helped transform the way we handle RFQs, enabling us to efficiently and accurately process the huge number we receive while saving time for both ABB and our customers.”
Electrification and automation solutions for utilities, industry, and infrastructure.
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