The settings on this screen apply to the sources of material that you selected in the previous wizard screens; these are the inventory, suppliers, steel mills, welded bars, and released but not yet received Purchase Orders. The material sources that you selected are listed in the top half of the screen. For each, you have the option to carry out one of the following actions:
§ Allocate the material to the Contract, batch and mark item(s) you selected in a previous wizard screen and raise a Purchase Order if necessary.
§ Save the nest and raise a request for a quotation (RFQ) that you can send to your supplier to check material costs and availability.
1. Select the Allocate/Order check box
2. In the Purchase Order column, select <New> if you want to raise a new purchase order, or select an existing open purchase order from the drop-down list. The open Purchase Orders displayed in this box are dependent on the supplier selected when nesting as only Purchase Orders for the same supplier will be shown.
1. Select the Save/RFQ check box. This will activate the Save function and place the nest in the Saved Nests tab in the Nesting and Ordering form.
2. If you want to also raise RFQs, select the Send RFQ to the following suppliers check box and select one or more suppliers in the list.
3. This will generate a Saved
Nest and create the report for the RFQ
that can then be sent onto the chosen suppliers.
The Saved Nest is also then stored
on the Saved Nest tab on the Contract
Prelim Listing - Details form. This is if the nest is carried out
from a Prelim Listing. If the
RFQ is generated from Production
Nesting and Ordering, then this will be stored on the Production
Nesting and Ordering Item to Nest page under the Saved
Nests tab.