Maintenance / Procurement Price Comparison Assistant

Problem

Maintenance and procurement quotes rarely contain only unit price. Warranties, quality, delivery, payment milestones, and cash-flow pressure can all change the best choice. Manual comparison often struggles with scattered inputs, missing clarification, over-analyzing simple repairs, and under-analyzing complex B2B purchases.

How It Works

• Smart routing: distinguishes simple from complex scenarios before asking for a full template.
• TCO calculation: estimates five-year total cost of ownership for complex purchases instead of relying on first-order price alone.
• Cash-flow analysis: checks payment milestones and funding pressure.
• Risk assessment: flags compliance, quality, delivery, and capital risks.
• Export: supports Excel and Markdown output for docs or spreadsheets.
• Price tracking: suggests external tools such as Feishu Bitable for historical pricing.

It ranks options based on the selected strategy: cost-focused, quality-first, or balanced. For ambiguous inputs, it asks follow-up questions instead of assuming the answer.

Boundaries

• Search results are market references, not real-time exact quotes; official supplier quotations still matter.
• The skill does not store historical prices by itself; long-term tracking needs an external table or document.
• Output supports decision-making but does not replace contract review, compliance review, or finance approval.