Alternate Sourcing Process
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Business requirements
- Customer defines a request-list of local categories or individual products
- Customer invites connected digitals to take part in request-list based quote process (Listbased RFQ)
- Transport request-list to these potential supplier digitals
- Supplier maps their products on the request-list
- Transport of this mapping to the requesting customer
- Customer accepts these alternate product mapping and defines the appropriate multi-sourcing-strategy
Technical requirements
- Volatile data store for RFQ request transmission (like a reverse catalog, but using SDC Product data and SDC Classification Data)
- Only products, which are in db can be requested for alternate sourcing.
- Mappings on supplier and customer side in database (linked to Product_RefUIDs)
- Volatile data store for RFQ answer (like a reverse catalog usind SLH Product data)
- Creation of mapping in local database (requires import from catalog)