Interactive
A round, end to end
Five suppliers quoted the same corrugated case. They quoted in different units, with different minimums, tooling and freight terms. This is what that looks like once it is all on one basis.
A real round, running live
One corrugated case. Five suppliers. What do you actually pay?
Every quote below arrived in a different shape — one priced per thousand, one with a minimum order, one with a tooling charge, one with freight left out. This is the product's own arithmetic converting all five to the same thing: a landed cost per case. Move the volume and watch who wins change.
On the table at this volume
£103,100 a year
Halston comes out at £0.1228 a case against the £0.1400 you pay now — if the market supports it and the caveats are acceptable.
£736,900 a year at your volume
Showing the cheapest quote. Point at any supplier above to see theirs.
Why the winner changes
Move the volume and the cheapest supplier changes. That is not a trick — it is the actual reason comparing quotes by eye goes wrong. A tooling charge that is painful at 200,000 cases disappears at 6,000,000. A minimum order that rules a supplier out entirely at low volume becomes irrelevant at high volume.
The figures here are illustrative, not a customer's. What is real is the arithmetic: the same conversion CostSpring applies to your own quotes.