Every new approved demand irrespective of the type appears here. The following are the types of demands:
- Indirect Materials / Services– Approved Requisitions
- Direct Materials – BoM Upload followed by Push for RFQ, MRP Integration
- SoW-based Projects – Approved Requisitions
Each demand is associated with a unique OU in the overall Organizational Hierarchy and the logged-in Buyer / Buyer Manager will be able to view demands associated with the OUs that he/she is associated with only.
Menu Path: Demand Management >> Active Demands. Show: Requisition Demands
- Requisition Demands- Demands created through the requisitions.
- MRP demands- Demands from an external ERP system.
- With Responsible Buyer: All the demands assigned with a responsible buyer will be displayed in the grid.
- Without Responsible Buyer: All demands without a responsible buyer will be displayed.
Actions:
- Grouped View: The grouped view is associated with a set of grouping actions. The demands can be grouped based on- Requisition Number, Requisition Owner, Item category, Item number, and supplier.
- In the list of demands without responsible buyer, the only Action available is to Assign Responsible Buyer.
- In the list of demands with responsible buyer, various actions mentioned below are available:
- Create sourcing events (RFQ, RFI, and Auction): A sourcing event will be created and will be available in the respective module.
- Create Purchase Orders (Contract or Emergency): Contract PO can be created if there are available contracts and Emergency POs can be created and these will be available in the PO management.
- Archive and restrict Supply: Archive the demand and do not further make this demand available for supply, i.e., for PO creation.
- Archive and restrict Sourcing: Archive the demand and do not further make this demand available for any sourcing activity.
- Archive and remove from Demand: Once the demand is archived and removed, it cannot be further used for sourcing or supply.
- View Requisition Details: View the complete requisition in detail.
- View Existing Contracts: Active contracts are the contracts that are currently active, meaning the UOM, Locations, Payment terms, etc. match with that of the selected item. Also, it checks if there are suppliers with an active pricelist for the item selected.
- Assign Buyer: Assign a buyer who can further act on the demand and perform sourcing or supply. He then becomes the responsible buyer.
- View Progress/History: This option will display the status of the Sourcing or Supply Activities created for the chosen demand.
- View Suppliers: This option will display all the suppliers assigned with the selected requisition.
- Reassign Buyer: Assign the requisition to another buyer to perform the sourcing or supply activities. A Buyer will be able to reassign the demand to another buyer provided: It was self-owned and not assigned by a Buyer Manager
- Archive and Restrict supply: Archives the supply-demand. Sourcing can be performed.