# Auto and Tier-1 components — Radexus

> You quote every RFQ that arrives because saying no feels like losing, and nobody counts what a quote costs to produce.

*Source: https://radexus.com/industries/auto/*

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# Every RFQ gets answered. Almost nobody counts what that costs.

You quote every RFQ that arrives because saying no feels like losing, and nobody counts what a quote costs to produce.

You quote every RFQ that arrives because saying no feels like losing, and nobody counts what a quote costs to produce.

## Where the money goes in auto and tier-1 components.

Component makers answer RFQs by reflex, because the OEM asked and refusing feels like losing the relationship. Each response costs engineering days that are never counted against the nomination rate. Meanwhile raw material increases arrive monthly, the contract has an escalation clause, and the claim window closes before anyone has assembled the evidence. That absorbed escalation alone often funds the build.

## What the first hour looks like, and the number we would agree.

First meeting, no data from you

Platform whitespace from public production data and OEM announcements: the programmes where you are not being asked to quote, and could be.

The number we would propose

Bid to nomination ratio, or escalation value claimed against value entitled over the last four quarters.

Why that one

Both are computable from RFQ records, cost sheets and contracts you already hold, and the escalation figure usually surprises the CFO.

## 12 plays in the catalogue for this sector.

Each one is built from the same nine patterns and reads the same memory. The first is priced as a pilot. Every one after it runs on a memory that already exists.

-   **Acquire**RFQ triage and fit scoring
-   **Acquire**Platform and OEM whitespace
-   **Convert**Costing and quote build
-   **Finance**Price escalation and raw material claims
-   **Finance**Receivables by OEM terms
-   **Retain**Customer scorecard defence
-   **Retain**Aftermarket and spares channel
-   **Operations**Scrap and rejection pattern
-   **Operations**Schedule volatility and premium freight
-   **Operations**PPAP documentation assembly
-   **Operations**Tier-2 supplier risk
-   **Management**Programme pipeline cockpit

## Systems we read in this sector.

Nothing is migrated. A connector that does not exist yet is written during delivery and joins the library.

SAPQAD AdaptivePlexInfor LNSupplyOnOEM supplier portalsSAP AribaETQ or spreadsheet quality recordsCost sheets and BOMs

## Bring four customer names. We run the first play before we meet.

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