Case Study
Schneider Electric×Nanonets

From manual quoting to autonomous
RFQ-to-Quote pipelines

Schneider Electric's sales team manually processed RFQs, looked up part numbers, and drafted quotes across SAP and Outlook. Nanonets now handles the entire cycle — from email to quote sent and logged — autonomously.

380K+ Pages Automated87% Faster Quote Cycle99%+ Part Match AccuracyNPS 9/10
About the customerEuroNEXT: SU

Schneider Electric SE is a global leader in energy management and industrial automation, serving customers in over 100 countries with solutions ranging from electrical distribution to digital transformation for industry.

€37.8B
Annual revenue
100+
Countries
150K+
Employees worldwide
#1
In energy management

The Problem

Sales teams manually processed RFQs from distributors — extracting part numbers, matching against the product catalog, calculating pricing and margins in Excel, drafting quotes in Outlook, and logging everything manually into SAP. For Remote Audit, field engineers reviewed 50K pages of electrical diagrams line by line.

  • Complex process led to manual part matching against large product catalogs.
  • Manual SAP data entry for every quote created bottlenecks in the pipeline.
  • A multi-day quote cycle meant missed deals and frustrated distributor partners.
Email/Portal
Receive RFQ
Excel
Extract parts
Database
Manual lookup
Excel
Calculate pricing
Outlook
Draft quote
SAP
Log quote
Manual process repeated for each RFQ
330K
Pages processed (PR to PO)
50K
Pages reviewed (Remote Audit)
Stack
SAP
Outlook
Excel

Our sales team was spending hours per quote just matching part numbers and filling SAP. With Nanonets, the entire cycle — from receiving an RFQ to having a draft quote in Outlook and the opportunity logged in SAP — happens automatically. It's transformed how we respond to customers.

Head of Digital Operations
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric

The solution

One agentic pipeline. From email to closed deal. Fully automated.

Nanonets replaced the manual RFQ-to-Quote loop with an autonomous agent pipeline spanning email, ERP, pricing databases, and CRM — taking actions end-to-end without human intervention except where approval is needed.

Receive RFQ Email
Extract Part Numbers
Enrich with Apollo
Create SAP Lead
Match Parts & Price
Draft Quote
Log Quote in SAP
PO Received → Won

Impact

87%
Reduction in quote cycle time
4+ hrs → <30 min per RFQ
380K+
Pages automated annually
Across PR-to-PO and Remote Audit
99%+
Part matching accuracy
Vs. ~70% manual
9/10
NPS Score
Rated by Schneider Electric
Metric
Before
After
Savings
Quote cycle time
4+ hrs
<30 min
87% faster
Part matching accuracy
~70%
99%+
29pp gain
SAP data entry
Manual
Automated
100%
Pages reviewed (audit)
2 min/page
<5 sec/page
95% faster
RFQ-to-quote volume
Bottlenecked
10x throughput
10x

AGENT ANATOMY

Nanonets Agent
Autonomous action-taking
After matching
Agent decides path and acts
Match
All parts available
Nanonets
Part matched
LST-421 ✓
MCB-C32 ✓
XL3-160 ✓
A
Apollo · CRM
Apollo enriched
Sonepar · €28B ✓
Sarah Bennett ✓
SAP · CRM
SAP Lead created
StatusLead
SourceRFQ Email
Outlook
Quote drafted
To: sarah.bennett@sonepar.com
Quote — Lighting Fixtures RFQ ✓
SAP · SD
SAP SD logged
QuoteSD-2026-04411
Value€8,156
SAP · CRM
Deal tracked
StatusWon ✓
POSNP-2026-0882
Partial match
Some out of stock
Nanonets
Flag unavailable parts
⚠ ATS22D47S — Out of stock
Nanonets
Propose substitutes
Substitute: ATS22D32S
22kW soft starter · Available 4 units
Nanonets
listening…
Outlook
Carrier contacted
To: supply@schneider.com
Lead time request — ATS22D47S
Outlook
Re-quote sent
To: sarah.bennett@sonepar.com
Updated quote with lead time ✓
No match
Custom order
Nanonets
Escalate to product team
No catalog match — custom spec
Nanonets
listening…
Outlook
Manual review triggered
To: product-team@schneider.com
Custom spec review requested
Nanonets
listening…
Nanonets
Custom quote path
Handoff to sales engineer

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