Creating requests for quotation in 5 steps

This section describes how you can use requests for quotation in FUTURA Smart to advertise your requirements and obtain quotations from any number of suppliers.

Select your request type at the end of this page for the first step. At the end of each page of the single steps, you can click on the given link to proceed to the further steps of the individual request types, until your request for quotation is published.

Attach any number of files to the request. Add suppliers from your FUTURA Smart or SAP address book and start the request for quotation. The invited suppliers gain access to the request and can submit their quotation quickly and easily via FUTURA Smart. Track the processing status of each supplier in real time and have an overview of which suppliers have already been active and submitted a quotation.

FUTURA Smart offers you a flexibly customizable price comparison list for evaluating the quotations. You can revise submitted quotations and thus keep a record of negotiation results.

The quotations that are evaluated at the end of a request for quotation can be ordered directly and transferred to your SAP system or be used to create contracts.

On the following pages, you will learn how the purchase requisition, material, contract and sourcing cockpits are structured in FUTURA Smart, how you can select and add purchase requisition and material items or contracts and/or create free text items and create requests for quotation from them.

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