- Change Description: Provide the new part description in the screen that appears and click on Save button to get the part description updated. Now the New Part Description will be updated, this part description will remain the same across all the processes for this specific RFQ. This updated description will not have any impact on the Part Master of MeRLIN. While creating another RFQ with the same part, the one from the Part master will appear as a description and not the updated description. The updated descriptions are thus confined to that specific RFQ.
- Change Template: The template associated with a part can be changed using this action.
- Edit: Provision to edit the details of the item. Also provision to edit SOW template incase of Service Item.
- Delete: Delete the item from the RFQ.
- Attachments: Provision to add attachments to the selected item.
- Link Suppliers: From the items grid, select one or more items and choose Link Suppliers.
More than one supplier can be chosen. Also, there is a tab for advanced search where with the help of filters you can easily search suppliers based on different attributes.
Once all the suppliers are chosen, click on the Add Supplier button to link those suppliers to the selected items.
- Link all Preferred Suppliers: This will link all the suppliers that have already been mapped to the category of the selected item under category management. Two options are available:
- Remove Existing Suppliers and Add: This removes all the suppliers already mapped to the item by the user and adds the suppliers that have already been mapped to the category of the selected item.
- Add to Existing Suppliers: Provision to add category suppliers on top of the already selected supplier list.
- Link all Grey-Listed suppliers: This will link all the Grey-listed suppliers that have already been mapped to the category of the selected item under category management. Two options are available:
- Remove Existing Suppliers and Add: This removes all the grey-listed suppliers already mapped to the item by the user and adds the grey-listed suppliers that have already been mapped to the category of the selected item.
- Add to Existing Suppliers: Provision to add the grey-listed category suppliers on top of the already selected supplier list