A late quote means the job is already lost
Picture a label converter whose quotes take too long to price and whose schedule lives in a spreadsheet shared by email. Joining quoting and scheduling is what turns enquiries into jobs that ship on time.
Picture yourself running a label converter. Enquiries come by phone, email and messages all day. Each one needs a price and a delivery date, and the caller expects a quick answer. You open a spreadsheet, add up material cost, waste factor and run time, then text the figure back. Meanwhile your production planner is fitting the confirmed jobs onto another spreadsheet and printing it to pin on a board. Stock levels live in a separate sheet, checked by a call to the warehouse.
What goes wrong is predictable. A quote arrives late, and the caller has already asked several other shops for prices. Your planner assigns the same press to overlapping jobs because the print dates shifted and the board was not updated. A substrate runs short during the week, so a job ships late. You issue a revised quote after the material cost changed, and the caller asks why the price moved. Cash sits tied up in the wrong stock, and you chase payment on a job that slipped its delivery.
You feel these pressures every week. Rising material costs eat the margin on a job quoted weeks ago, a skilled press operator is hard to hire, and cash waits on a delivery date. In a recent survey, 67% of Malaysian small and medium enterprises said their main business pressure was rising costs, while 43% reported difficulty finding suitable staff and 42% struggled with cash flow (The Star). High implementation costs are reported as a barrier to adopting technology by Malaysian small and medium enterprises (The Star). Yet the same firms adopt digital tools for faster transactions, convenience and cost savings (The Star).
One shared screen replaces the quote sheet, the schedule and a stack of text messages.
What gets built
You need the quote and the schedule to agree. The system Yunaris builds for this pulls live material costs into the quote, applies the right markup rules and checks real availability before it is sent. Once the job is confirmed, it drops onto a shared schedule that your planner, warehouse and press operators all see. No extra spreadsheet. No texted dates. No surprise substitutions at the cutting table. Everyone works from the same plan, so the next caller asking for a price gets an answer that matches the next free slot.
How the day changes
Quotes go out the same day, priced consistently, so callers stop shopping around. Your planner sees material needs before the run, so stock arrives before it is needed. Fewer calls, fewer price corrections, fewer late deliveries. You can see which jobs pay first and plan the week around that.
Sources
- Rising costs top concern for Malaysian SMEs as growth remains priority, The Star, 1 October 2026