Industrial distributor
A regional distributor of fasteners and fluid-handling parts selling to maintenance buyers and contractors.
The dataset
Quote requests, salesperson responses, negotiation threads, and final purchase or loss records linked over time.
The decision chain
01
Request for quote
02
Quote and substitutions
03
Negotiation
04
Purchase or loss
05
Repeat order
Why it is hard to reproduce
Pricing judgments, substitutions, and purchase outcomes accumulate through real transactions. A quote archive alone cannot recreate the negotiation history and the decisions behind each result.
AI use cases
- Training and evaluating sales and quoting agents
- Negotiation and pricing benchmarks
- Tool-use traces across ERP and CRM
What to assemble
- Link quote requests, revisions, substitutions, and final outcomes
- Document product codes, pricing fields, and sales stages
- Measure the share of quotes with a recorded outcome