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Keep every drawing, quote and repeat order in one record instead of three inboxes.

A CRM for a CNC machining shop is a single record of each buyer, each drawing received, each quote sent and each order that followed. GullySales sets one up around your RFQ flow so an enquiry from IndiaMART, email or WhatsApp lands in the same place, and a drawing nobody has priced stands out.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Last updated 13 Nov 2026.

For CNC machining companies

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “The drawing is the lead, and the buyer is only half the record”

    A CRM built for generic sales tracks a contact and a deal. A machining shop also needs the part number, material, quantity, tolerance and revision attached, because the same buyer may send four drawings in one month and win only one.

  • “Enquiries in three places mean no one knows what is open”

    One RFQ arrives by email, a follow-up by WhatsApp, and a third as a directory lead. When nobody holds the whole picture, a drawing sits unpriced and the buyer assumes the shop is not interested.

  • “A lost quote teaches nothing if the reason is not written down”

    Buyers go elsewhere for price, delivery, a missing certificate or silence. If the reason is never recorded, the shop keeps pricing and replying the same way and loses the same kind of job again.

  • “Repeat buyers are visible only when the history is in one place”

    The owner remembers which buyer reorders a particular part. The new sales executive does not. A record of past orders by buyer and part lets anyone pick up a reorder conversation at the right moment.

What we do

What we deliver for CNC machining companies.

The work available for this need. We agree the deliverables and responsibilities for your engagement in writing.

  1. A single RFQ register

    One list into which email, WhatsApp, IndiaMART and TradeIndia enquiries are entered, showing drawing, material, quantity, owner and status.

    Result: Every open drawing has a name against it.

  2. Fields built for machining work

    Columns for material, tolerance, finish, quantity, drawing revision and certificate required, set up on a tool your team will use.

    Result: A quote can be built from the record without searching old messages.

  3. Quote status and loss-reason tracking

    Stages from received to priced to sent to won or lost, with a short reason recorded on every lost job.

    Result: You can see which reasons recur when a quote is lost.

  4. Buyer and part history

    A view of each buyer's past orders, parts and contacts, linked to the quality notes for any rejection.

    Result: A reorder or complaint call starts with the facts in front of the caller.

  5. Team habits and a short training session

    A plain guide to what gets entered, by whom and when, with a session for the quoting and sales team.

    Result: The register gets used because the team knows what is expected of it.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Fields worth keeping

The fields that let a machining shop price, chase and reorder from one record.

Drawing number and revision
Filled by whoever receives the RFQ. It stops you quoting an old revision and lets you find the earlier quote when the same part returns.
Material and grade
Entered by the estimator from the drawing. Filtering by grade shows which alloys you win on and which you keep losing, so you buy bar stock accordingly.
Tolerance and finish called out
Entered at quoting. Over time it shows whether you win the tight-tolerance jobs or only the loose ones, which tells you where your inspection time pays back.
Quantity and release schedule
Entered by sales from the buyer's request. It separates a one-off prototype from a scheduled supply and decides how much machine time to set aside.
Certificates and reports required
Ticked by the quality lead at quoting, such as material test certificate or first article report. It prevents a quote that leaves out paperwork the buyer expected.
Reason for loss
Chosen by the person closing a lost quote, from a short list such as price, delivery or paperwork. It is the only field that tells you what to change.

Who it is for

This is written for these CNC machining companies.

  • Job shops doing contract machining
  • Precision component manufacturers
  • Auto ancillary machining suppliers
  • Aerospace and defence component machinists
  • Machine shops serving medical device makers
  • Prototype and low-volume machining shops
  • Sheet metal and fabrication shops with CNC capability
  • Export-focused precision machining units

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Only the owner quotes and every buyer is known personally, so a shared register would add typing without anyone gaining information
  • You have no one who will open the record and read it, because a CRM nobody reads becomes another place for old data to sit

Before you decide

Agree the work. Know how to judge it.

CRM for CNC machining shops: use these checks to prepare, choose the scope, and review what changes.

Bring the right evidence

List the records your team uses and show how an enquiry becomes an order today. Bring examples of duplicate entries, missing owners, and reports that require manual correction.

Make the scope clear

Agree the stages, required fields, access roles, and integrations before configuring the system. Separate software subscriptions from setup, data work, and training.

Check the work in use

Ask the people who will use the CRM to complete a real handover and find the next action without help. Check that the management report can be traced back to individual records.

Know when to change course

If the process is unclear, buying a more complex CRM adds more places for confusion. Start with the minimum fields and rules the team can use consistently.

These are discussion points, not a fixed package. GullySales confirms the deliverables, responsibilities, fee, and term in writing after reading your brief and speaking with you.

Before we start

What to have ready before the work starts.

The records, access and decisions this work needs from CNC machining companies. Anything missing is noted in the written scope, with who will supply it.

Access to the owner's and the estimator's mailboxes
The list of open drawings needs both. Forwarded samples will do. If a mailbox stays closed, its drawings are missing from the register. Access to the sent folders is needed, since quotes live there.
The IndiaMART dashboard login
Directory enquiries must enter the same register as email and calls, so we need to see the listing and the enquiries received there. A temporary login is enough. Without it, those enquiries stay outside the register, and the count of open drawings is lower than the real one.
A short list of reasons a quote is lost
The sales head knows the common ones. Five or six are enough. Without a list, reasons are written freely and cannot be compared. Add a seventh, called other, for reasons that fit nowhere.
A folder structure for drawing files
Files are stored by buyer and part, not inside the register. A shared drive is enough. Without it, the register links to nothing. Revision names in the file should match the register entry.

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Open the three inboxes and list every open drawing

    We open the owner's mailbox, the estimator's mailbox and the IndiaMART dashboard together, and list every drawing still open. You decide which are alive. What exists afterwards is one list of live RFQs, built from three places that never met. We also note drawings that were agreed by phone and never recorded.

  2. 2

    Design the RFQ register with machining fields

    We build a register around the drawing: number, revision, material, process, quantity, buyer, quote value and status. The estimator tries it on real work. The drawing is the lead and the buyer is attached to it, which is how the shop thinks. Directory enquiries enter as new rows with their source noted, so the owner sees where each drawing came from.

  3. 3

    Record why each lost quote was lost

    We add a field for the loss reason, chosen from a short list the sales head writes, such as price, lead time, capability or silence. Every lost quote needs a reason before it closes. After a few weeks the list shows what repeats. The estimator can then see at once whether a price should be repeated or reviewed.

  4. 4

    Link the buyer to the parts they have ordered

    A buyer's record shows the parts made, the revisions and the date of the last order, so a repeat enquiry is recognised at once. The sales head fills the first entries from memory. You can then see which buyers have slowed. The quality head adds notes on rejections, so a repeat order is quoted with that history in mind.

  5. 5

    Teach the habits in one short session

    We sit with the owner, estimator and planner for one session on the register: how to enter an RFQ, how to close one, where the drawing file lives. You choose who enters what. A one-page guide goes beside the computer. The planner learns where to see an accepted quote before it becomes a job.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need
Do we need special software, or will a spreadsheet do?
A shared spreadsheet is a fair first step for a small shop. A proper CRM becomes worth it when several people quote, or when you want reminders and history by buyer. GullySales helps you choose a tool in ordinary use in India that your team will open.
Can IndiaMART enquiries go into the same record?
Yes. IndiaMART and TradeIndia leads can be entered or imported into the same register as email and WhatsApp enquiries, so one buyer is not tracked as three different people.
Who should be responsible for keeping it updated?
The person who receives or quotes the RFQ enters it. One owner reviews the open list each time the team meets, so stale entries are noticed and either priced or closed.
Should the CRM hold the drawing files themselves?
Link to them rather than copy them in. Drawings carry customer confidentiality terms and sit best in a controlled folder, so the record stores the drawing number, revision and a link to that folder.
Should the register hold the drawing files?
No, it should link to them. A register that stores files grows heavy, and a drawing copied into two places invites a wrong revision. Keep the files in a shared folder organised by buyer and part number, with the revision in the file name, and place the link in the register. When a revision arrives, save it as a new file and mark the old one superseded. The planner opens the drawing from the link on the job card. We set the folder rules with the estimator.
Who keeps the register up to date when the estimator is away?
Name a substitute before the register starts, and give that person the same access. The rule is simple: an RFQ is not priced until it is entered, so whoever prices enters. If nobody can price during the absence, the owner decides whether to ask buyers to wait. We write the rule on the one-page guide and test it once with the substitute. A register that depends on one person fails the first time that person falls ill.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.

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