HIDDEN LEAK #08 · COSTING
Your Quotation Locked In a Paper Rate. The Market Didn't Get the Memo.
8 of 24 leaks diagnosed
Stale Quotesstill running at yesterday's rates
Most owners have never measured this on their own floor. needs real data
⚠️The Problem
Raw material rates (paper, board, ink, film) move between the day a quotation is issued and the day the job is actually procured and run, but the system has no mechanism to flag or absorb that gap.
💥The Impact
- Jobs quoted weeks ago now run at a loss because material costs rose
- There's no structured way to pass on justified rate increases to the client
- Estimators can't quickly tell which quotes are now stale and need repricing
🔍Root Cause
Material cost is only checked once, at quotation time, nobody checks it again before the job is confirmed.
🔧The Fix
Connecting quotations to live material rates closes this gap.
✅The Solution
- Live material rate master updated at time of procurement
- Automatic flagging of quotations ageing past a defined validity window
- Rate-variance visibility before job confirmation, not after
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People on payroll60
Per employee₹25,000
% of team time12%
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