RFQs × suppliers per RFQ × minutes per supplier ÷ 60 × hourly labour cost
Procurement workflow cost calculator
What does your supplier-quote workflow cost today?
Use your own monthly workload and labour cost to estimate today’s manual effort. Then see the monthly time equivalent of a clearly labeled evaluation benchmark.
Your current workflow
Enter your monthly averages
The initial figures are illustrative starting values. Replace them with your own; no time savings are assumed.
Your average number of supplier quote requests each month.
Average suppliers you contact for each request.
Time spent tracking and following up one supplier, then organising its reply if it arrives.
Your chosen hourly cost including relevant employment overheads.
Your figures are used in this page only and are not saved.
Your estimate
Today’s workflow, in numbers
Current monthly manual time
15 hours / month
Based only on the RFQ, supplier, and time inputs above.
Current monthly workflow cost
£450.00
Estimated labour cost for the manual time entered above.
Break-even time-saving threshold
1.7 hours / month
At your entered labour cost, this is the monthly time equivalent of the £50/month evaluation benchmark · not approved Quirkettle pricing. It is a threshold, not a savings forecast.
Available to approved workspaces
This is a workflow estimate, not a product promise.
This calculator estimates current manual effort only. It does not predict what Quirkettle will save.
How to read the estimate
A transparent calculation from your figures.
Evaluation benchmark ÷ your hourly labour cost
Illustrative estimate only. The starting values are examples; replace them with your own figures. Current cost is calculated from your inputs and does not include software, setup, or other non-labour costs. The £50/month figure is an evaluation benchmark for comparison only, not approved Quirkettle pricing. Quirkettle is available to approved workspaces, but this calculator assumes no time savings and is not a savings forecast.