Order Acceptance AI Agent
The biggest order of the quarter can still lose you money. You just won't see it until the close.
Armqu runs every new order against your live production, inventory, procurement, and cash data, so you see the real margin before you say yes.
The problem
In F&B manufacturing - major customer sends a large purchase order. On the face of it, it's good: more volume, more revenue, a relationship worth protecting. So you say yes.
What you can't see at the moment you sign is whether the price was built on this quarter's raw material costs or last quarter's. Whether the delivery window is physically achievable on lines already committed to other orders. Whether fulfilling it means buying material at today's prices, running twelve line changeovers, paying overtime, and funding all of it weeks before the customer pays you. The order that looked like more profit becomes less.
The unseen consequences
The quoted price sits on a standard cost that finance last updated a quarter ago, so the margin you approved isn't the margin you'll earn;
Procurement commits to material at current market prices, not last month’s.
Production absorbs changeover time and overtime that no one costed into the headline number;
Cash goes out for materials and labour weeks before the customer pays, on terms they historically stretch;
The erosion surfaces in the monthly close, three weeks after the run was committed and renegotiation is no longer possible.
Connected to everything that matters
Every element that determines whether the order makes or loses money is knowable. The problem is that data lives across your ERP, WMS, MES, the procurement terms, commercial terms, and the cash ledger, and in the heads of five people who are never in the room at the same time.
What the agent looks at:
Current costs
True margin at current input costs, not the standard cost in the price list
Inventory
Material position: stock on hand, open POs, what must be bought, and at what price today
Downside exposure
Penalty clauses, partial-delivery risk, and customer concentration if this PO tips one buyer past a fifth of monthly revenue
Working capital
The working-capital gap: cash out for materials and labour against the customer's actual payment behaviour
Production capacity
Real available capacity in the delivery window, after existing committed orders, changeovers, and maintenance
Workforce
Workforce reality in the window: leave, overtime cost, certified-operator constraints
Without Armqu
Margin checked against a standard cost finance updated last quarter;
Production capacity confirmed by a phone call, if at all;
Procurement, finance, and production in three separate conversations;
Cash impact of the working-capital gap discovered in the close;
Decision made on the loudest voice in the room;
With Armqu
Margin run against live input costs at the moment you respond;
Available capacity after committed orders, changeover cost, and overtime modelled into the number;
One simulation across all three, one answer.
90-day cash position and the funding gap visible before sign-off;
Decision made on the full financial consequence, visible in minutes.
Haven’t we tried this before?
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Your Excel model is built on last quarter's costs and can't see your live production schedule or cash position. Armqu runs the same decision against current input prices, real available capacity, and your actual 90-day cash position, in minutes instead of days. The difference is the gap between the margin you approved and the margin you earned.
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Armqu connects to your existing ERP and operational systems and reads from them in real time. Your ERP stays the system of record.
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You're right, and there's a reason. Until now, no tool could connect to every system you run, so it went in partially. It read your ERP, or your manufacturing system, but never all of them at once, which is exactly why it never gave you the full picture. Armqu is built to connect to all of them, and our deployments show it works: live in 4 to 6 weeks, configured by our floor-mapping team, not your IT department.
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Armqu is calibrated to how your operation actually runs, not to a generic manufacturing template, and it flags incomplete data rather than guessing. The COO and head of production validate the model against real decisions during go-live, so the numbers reflect your floor before anyone relies on them.
What customers are saying
It simplifies the team's work by 90% so instead of spending energy on repetitive tasks, you can focus on decisions, creativity, and development. After you understand what it does, you can't help but want to see a demo. And then implement it.
Cristian Nica - General Manager, Dristor Kebap
€420K/factory saved
<3 months payback
4-6 weeks to go-live
FAQs:
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Armqu runs the order against your current raw material prices, real production capacity, changeover and overtime costs, and inventory and workforce, rather than the standard cost in your price list. It returns the contribution margin after all variable costs, so the number reflects what you'll actually earn, not what the quote assumed.
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Yes. Armqu models available capacity in the requested delivery window after existing committed orders, scheduled maintenance, and the changeover time the order's SKU mix requires. You see whether the window is physically achievable before you commit to it.
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Armqu models the working-capital gap — cash out for materials and labour against the customer's actual payment terms and behaviour — and shows the effect on your 90-day cash position. You see whether the order funds itself or whether it draws on your credit facility before you sign.
Book a demo
Let us run your last three order decisions through Armqu.
Bring three orders your team accepted in the last 90 days. We'll model each one against your live production, procurement, and cash data and show you the real margin you earned, against the margin you thought you'd approved.
30-minute session. No slide decks. Your orders, your data, your operation