Free interactive tool
The cost of sourcing by email
Put in your own numbers and see what chasing quotes and rebuilding spreadsheets costs your team every month. No claims, just your assumptions and arithmetic.
Your numbers
RFQs, quote rounds, or tenders your team runs in a typical month.
Writing the enquiry, sending it out, chasing stragglers, answering the same question five times.
Re-keying mismatched quotes into a spreadsheet, normalizing units, getting the comparison signed off.
Fully loaded, in your currency. All results use this same currency.
Your estimate, not ours. Structured requests mean bids arrive comparable, so the chasing and re-keying largely disappear. Set it where you believe it.
What it costs you today
- Hours spent per month
- 80 h
- Cost per month, your currency
- 8,000
- Cost per year, your currency
- 96,000
If structure removes 50% of that work
Every figure on this page comes from the sliders above, including the reduction estimate. Nothing here is a benchmark or a promise; it is your own arithmetic, shown honestly.
How this is calculated
Monthly hours = requests per month x (collection hours + comparison hours). Costs multiply those hours by your hourly rate. The savings figures apply your own reduction estimate to those totals. Nothing you enter is submitted or stored; the calculation runs entirely in your browser.