Rama for automation distributors

The AI system built for configured orders. Rama checks and prices every BOM, so your team has more time to quote configured orders same day

Live on your ERP and supplier data in days. No rip-and-replace.

BOM 118, panel build, 62 linesSpec sheet attached
Line as the customer sent itQtyWhat Rama foundLeadYour price
1769-L33ERCompactLogix controller, 2 MB1MIGRATIONPriced and available, but the platform is end-of-life for new designs. Current equivalent quoted alongside.18 wks$4,180
2711P-T7C22D9PPanelView Plus 7, 7 inch2CONFIGCatalogue number is the DC-input variant. The spec sheet attached to this BOM calls for 120V AC.6 wks$2,940 ea
25B-D010N104PowerFlex 525 drive, 5 HP4OKConfiguration checks out against the motor on line 14. Stock at two branches.In stock$1,105 ea
1794-IB16FLEX I/O input module6MIGRATIONLegacy family. Your customer's own standard allows Point I/O, which ships now at a lower cost.22 wks$620 ea
440R-N23132Safety relay, dual channel3SUPERSEDEDSuperseded part number. Replacement is form-fit compatible and carries the same certification.4 wks$412 ea
QUINT-PS/1AC/24DC/1024V DC power supply, 10 A2OKIn stock, contract price applied. Sized correctly for the load on this panel.In stock$389 ea
+ 56 more lines in the BOM
CONFIGThe catalogue number contradicts the attached specMIGRATIONLegacy or superseded, with the current path priced next to it
2 days of emailsto check and price the whole BOM
caught before the quote went out
on the lines with a shipping alternate

Sample run on a panel BOM from a machine builder. Rama reads the BOM and the spec sheet together, checks every configured catalogue number against both, and prices what you can actually ship. Illustrative numbers, real logic, run on your own authorisations and supplier data.

Quote turnaround
Before2–3 days
RamaSame day

Configured quotes stop waiting on one engineer being free.

Config errors
Before1 in 12 lines
Rama1 in 200

Wrong voltage, wrong option code, wrong enclosure, caught before the order.

Project margin
BeforeBaseline
Rama+2.4 pts

Alternates offered on purpose, not because a lead time forced it.

Configuration

Twelve characters, six ways to get it wrong

Click through the string. Each segment is a decision that has to agree with a document sitting somewhere else.

Line 7 as it arrived, one string, twelve characters
Input voltage
480V AC, three phase

The voltage code has to agree with the panel's supply and with the motor on the mechanical schedule. This is where most configured orders go wrong.

!On BOM 118 the spec sheet showed a 240V supply while the BOM carried the 480V code. Rama flagged it before the quote went out.
Every character is a decision someone made, or didn't

A configured order is only correct if the whole string is correct, and the information that proves it sits in three different documents. Rama reads all three.

The BOM, for what they asked for
The spec sheet, for what it has to do
Your supplier data, for what actually exists and ships

Segment breakdown shown for illustration. Rama decodes against your own supplier catalogue data, including the option rules that never made it into a public table.

A configured order is only right if every character is right. Nobody's afternoon should go on proving that by hand.

What goes wrong

Three ways a configured order goes sideways

Each of these is survivable once. What makes them expensive is that they happen quietly, and always to your best accounts.

Costs you the reorder
The wrong drive arrives on site

One character in the string was wrong, and nobody caught it until the panel shop opened the box. Now it's an RMA, a re-order on a fresh lead time, and a difficult phone call.

Rama checks every configured number against the spec before the quote leaves, so the error surfaces while it's still free to fix.
Costs you the project
The 22-week line nobody flagged

Most of the BOM ships next week. Two lines don't, and the integrator finds out at the worst possible moment, from their own customer.

Rama puts real lead times on every line and prices the shipping alternate next to the original, so the conversation happens up front.
Costs you the account
The install base nobody mapped

A customer runs a platform that's been end-of-life for years. Whoever maps it and quotes the migration owns that account for the next decade.

Rama builds the install base from your own order history and tells your rep which accounts are sitting on borrowed time.
The difference

The same application engineers, on the work that needs them

Automation quoting is engineering work wrapped in clerical work. Here's what changes when the clerical half comes off their desk.

Currently
Checked by hand, twice
×Configured quotes queue behind whichever engineer is free
×Config checking is a person reading a spec sheet twice, if there's time
×Lead times get quoted from the last time somebody asked
×Obsolescence surfaces when a part finally can't be bought
With Rama
Checked before it's sent
Every BOM checked and priced the day it arrives
Catalogue numbers validated against the spec, line by line
Live lead times, with alternates priced beside the original
Install base mapped, migrations quoted before the customer asks
For your team

Built for every seat, from the quote desk out

Open the one that sounds like your week.

You are the reason the quote is right, and also the reason it's slow, because every BOM has to pass your eyes. Rama does the checking pass first and hands you a marked-up version with the questions that actually need engineering judgment.

Catalogue numbers validated against the attached spec
Option and accessory rules checked per line
Alternates and migrations priced alongside the original
Only the real questions escalated to you
Coverage

From the BOM to the commissioned panel

Rama works across the whole order, not just the quote screen.

Quote & configure
Before the order
BOM and spec intake
Catalogue number validation
Option and accessory rules
Alternates and migrations
Project and contract pricing
Registration and spec-in tracking
Quote follow-up
Purchasing & supply
Getting it delivered
Supplier RFQs
Live lead times and allocation
Expediting
Backlog and schedule management
Substitution approvals
Drop-ship and staged delivery
Value-add & service
After the order
Panel build and assembly orders
Kitting and staging
Programming and commissioning hours
Repair and exchange
Install base records
Obsolescence planning
Integrations

Rama runs on your ERP, your supplier data, and your authorisations

Distribution ERPs, manufacturer portals and configurators, your own price and option data, and email.

Epicor Prophet 21Infor SX.eNetSuiteDynamics 365SAPSupplier portalsHubSpotOutlook & Gmailand more

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in the right-hand panel

Why I started Rama

I grew up around my dad's factory. I remember people on the phone all day chasing parts, then typing the same numbers into three different places, and nobody thinking that was strange. It was just the job.

Years later I ended up in manufacturing myself, figuring it would all have moved on by now. It hadn't. I watched an engineer spend an afternoon checking a BOM character by character against a spec, because getting it wrong meant a panel arriving with the wrong drive in it.

So that's what we're building. Not a replacement for your engineers, the people who can look at a catalogue number and know it's wrong are the best part of this industry, they just spend half their week proving it one line at a time. We'd rather they got that half back.

If that sounds like your quotations desk, I'd love to hear how you're handling configured orders today.

Matt, Co-founder & CEO
Pricing

Based on usage and results

No big upfront license. You pay for the work Rama does, and the price moves with the results it delivers.

Send us a BOM you're quoting this week

We'll check it against the spec on your own supplier data and show you what we found, and how long it took.

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