A request for a quotation is a letter where you can request price quotations for specified parts and quantities, or price conditions for an estimated amount of a specified supplier assortment. Often, you send requests for quotations to several suppliers before you create a supplier agreement.
There are two kinds of requests: Supplier agreement requests and order requests. An order request refers to a quotation for a single purchase. A supplier agreement request contains information needed to create a supplier agreement with the supplier and refers to recurring purchases for a given time period.
The request for a quotation is built in two levels consisting of a request header and one or several request lines. The first step in a new entry is to enter the request for a supplier agreement quotation header.
Optionally, you can specify a ship via code, delivery term as well as the defined location, or payment term in your request.
The request for a supplier agreement quotation can either be entered manually in the Request for Agreement Quotation page, or processed from IFS/Project Delivery or IFS/Project if it is connected to a project.
A request for a supplier agreement quotation header is created. The request for a supplier agreement quotation receives the Planned status.
If you enter a ship via code, delivery term, or payment term, the code or term will be be valid for the supplier agreement. If no value is specified, the information in the supplier agreement is retrieved according to the normal procedure.