Offer overview and order splitting

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Offer overview

In offer overview you see the most important details of different offers on one screen. This allows you to compare multiple offers of a procurement case.

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1.Select "Offers" in the procurement case tree ball_A_t.

2.Click on "Offer overview" in the Detail section. All offers in this case will be shown ball_B_t.

 

Best Practice

Best Practice: You may select, copy and paste the offers in offer overview to an excel file if further processing outside MESPAS is needed.

 

Order splitting

If you receive different offers with itemized pricing, you may want to order some items with one supplier and other items with another supplier. Order splitting allows you to easily compare the offered prices and create different orders at the same time.

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Order splitting only applies for cases for which the supplier has entered itemized pricing.

 

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1. Select "Offers" in the procurement case tree ball_A_t.

2. Click on "Offer overview" in the Detail section ball_B_t. If there are more than two offers, you may select in the column selection the offers that shall be compared with each other in the order splitting.

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3. Click on "Order splitting" in the Detail section to open the order splitting screen ball_C_m.

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The above example shows the comparison of two offers, displayed next to each other. Only offers in the state “released” but no offers in the states “rejected” or “closed” are displayed.

4.The header bar provides you with general information about the offers such as supplier name, rebates, transport costs etc. ball_A_t.
 

5.The offered prices per unit are shown in the currency that the above supplier used. Next to it, in "Ref Price/Unit", the prices are converted into your personal currency based on a daily rate. The lower price is displayed in green color ball_B_t.

NOTE: A discount (Rebate) on the overall price will be reflected in the "Ref Price/Unit" row.

 

6.To order items just type the required quantity into "QOrd" ball_C_m below the supplier you prefer. You may also order items of the same type with different suppliers. If you don't want to order one of the items, just leave the "QOrd" at 0.

 

7.In "QRfq" the quantity of the requested items are shown. Next to it in "dQ" the difference to the ordered quantity is calculated ball_D_t. If you want to order all items that were requested for quotation the column "dQ" should show 0.00 in each row.

 

8.With a click on "Price history" you get all prices that you paid for the respective item in previous orders ball_E_t.

 

9.With a click on "Fill cheapest" you may automatically fill the column "QOrd" with the requested quantity where the price is the lowest. You may still change your ordered quantities before creating the order ball_F_t.

 

10. When finished click "Create orders" ball_G_t.

 

Best Practice

Best Practice: You may also compare the different offers on the order splitting PDF report. Please note that due to limited space, only the four offers with lowest overall price are shown.