A request for order quotation is a request for a price quotation for one or several parts or services, including external maintenance and repair services. An request for order quotation also requests a projected date of delivery. In addition, terms of delivery and shipping can be included in the request. Often, you want to send requests for order quotation to several suppliers before you place an order.
Use this activity to create a request for order quotation from a purchase requisition, using the Purchase Requisition page. Once you have converted the purchase requisition to a request for order quotation, you need to open the Request for Order Quotation page in IFS/Purchasing to continue processing the request.
Instead of converting a purchase requisition, you can also create a new request for order quotation manually.
Notes: (1) Purchase requisitions deriving from DOP orders and exchange purchase requisitions can only be converted to purchase orders. It is not possible to convert them into requests for order quotation. (2) Order quotations for external maintenance and repair services can only be converted to purchase orders if the corresponding request for order quotation was created from a purchase requisition.(3) When Demand Code is Work Task and Delivery Method is Pick Up, only the prices will be negotiated through the quotations for the existing supplier.
The purchase requisition is converted to a request for quotation. All information entered on the purchase requisition is transferred to the request. The system informs you about the assigned request number. All purchase requisition lines receive Request Created status.