Getting started
Quick Start & Navigation
Five-minute tour of the app, plus a map of every section.
5-step Quick Start
Vicone is your end-to-end costing & quoting workspace — Engineering captures parts, Sourcing runs supplier RFQs, Sales builds customer quotes, and Approvers gate them.
- 1Add a CustomerCreate the account you'll be quoting.
- 2Add a PartCapture material, process, and revision.
- 3Send a Supplier RFQGet quantity-break pricing from a manufacturing partner.
- 4Create a QuoteRoll up cost, target GP, and quantity breaks for the customer.
- 5Submit for ApprovalRoute quotes that need GP, discount, or policy review.
Glossary
- RFQ
- Request for Quotation — pricing ask sent to a supplier.
- GP %
- Gross profit margin: (price − cost) / price.
- Incoterm
- Shipping responsibility code (EXW, FCA, DAP, …).
- Lifecycle
- Where a part sits: active, NPI, EOL, or obsolete.
- Revision
- A formal new version of a sent/locked quote.
Navigation map
Every section in the sidebar — click to jump there.
Dashboard
KPIs and recent activity across the program.
Quotes
Costed customer quotations with revisions.
Approvals
Quotes awaiting GP, discount, or policy review.
Revisions
Formal price revisions on sent quotes.
Customers
Accounts you quote — terms and contacts.
Suppliers
Global manufacturing partners and certifications.
Parts
Vicone-numbered parts with material and process.
Supplier RFQs
Quantity-break pricing requests to suppliers.
Documents
Drawings, specs, PO files, and certificates.
Search
One search across every entity in the system.
Settings
Users, roles, quote classes, currencies.